So I always have 5 or 6 bottles (120ml) of juice mixed in advance that need to steep the 4 to 6 weeks. Once a week they need to be aired and then agitated a bit, but doing it by hand has gotten a bit tiresome for me since my accident as my left arm isn't quite co-operating in that regard, so tilting the bottle 50 times with one hand and having to go through 5 or 6 bottles didn't work for me anymore. Then I designed and built this:
I call it "The Tiltenator". Catchy, I think. I just slip 3 bottles in, switch on and leave it for an hour and then slip in the other two or three or one and let tilt for an hour. Works really well. This is the second model and still sorting out some kinks, but it works really well.
This was designed specifically for the 120ml chubby gorilla bottles, but I can make adapters that will make tilting of other bottles possible, although it's not a priority for me as the 120ml chubby gorilla (the new soft squeeze ones) are the only bottles I use.
This one is too fast. It's a 100rpm geared motor, but I've ordered a 20rpm motor. This one introduces bubbles during the tilting process because it's too fast, which I don't want. I just need it to tilt up and down slowly for about an hour to agitate the juice once a week during the steeping process.
Everything is 3d printed except the bearings and the motor.
I call it "The Tiltenator". Catchy, I think. I just slip 3 bottles in, switch on and leave it for an hour and then slip in the other two or three or one and let tilt for an hour. Works really well. This is the second model and still sorting out some kinks, but it works really well.
This was designed specifically for the 120ml chubby gorilla bottles, but I can make adapters that will make tilting of other bottles possible, although it's not a priority for me as the 120ml chubby gorilla (the new soft squeeze ones) are the only bottles I use.
This one is too fast. It's a 100rpm geared motor, but I've ordered a 20rpm motor. This one introduces bubbles during the tilting process because it's too fast, which I don't want. I just need it to tilt up and down slowly for about an hour to agitate the juice once a week during the steeping process.
Everything is 3d printed except the bearings and the motor.