The Home Machinist!

Would a roller made along the lines of a small paint roller work?

Pete

This is a goodun Steve: http://www.amazon.com/Henckels-Twin-Pur ... cr_pr_pb_t

Not that I could tell ya.....but my wife & other folks who can actually cook things that are edible say so.
Be fun to make one though........

Bill

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The thing that scares me about that press is the flimsiness. I've had garlic presses snap in my hands.

That tube-turning gadget is great.

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I'm ironing out the wrinkles for a hydraulic garlic press. The end, with the holes in it will screw on with a quarter turn and the pusher will extend for cleaning.
My big problem is whether or not the hydraulic system on my tractor will function well with extra virgin olive oil.

That picture is just too funny!

Steve

I think you could make a 1 1/8" dowel and a short blind tube that it fits in, flat at the bottom. Make precisely reamed .01875" holes perpendicular to the axis of the tube, at the bottom, spanning an arc of 87 degrees, 13 minutes. Place garlic in tube. Place dowel on top of garlic. Apply pressure with a 12-ton shop press until garlic shoots out of the holes.

Or just hit it with a hammer.

I was kidding, but now that I think about it, this would work, even if the arc was off by several seconds.

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The new Asian garlic presses are crap compared to American old iron presses.

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With a couple of mods these work well for Elephant Garlic

They call them "log splitters" but they obviously know nothing about cooking.

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Glenn

Operating machines is perfectly safe......until you forget how dangerous it really is!

This looks like a nice project? http://www.yliving.com/royal-vkb-garlic-crusher-vp303.html?productid=royal-vkb-garlic-crusher-vp303&channelid=AMAZO

ML and All--

Wow! It DOES look like a nice project! It is not what comes to my mind as a garlic press, but it would certainly work well.

I want a more complicated one with a fulcrum and a lever and a place to hold the garlic and a piston to mush it into submission. The last part is very important, although I am not mad at the garlic; garlic is my friend. But, like one might do to their friend now and then, garlic can be used as a surrogate to express hostility.

I thought of this as I was sorting nuts and bolts last night. A big-name hardware store's local manager and I once became friendly. I bought fasteners at his store. I noticed that all the fasteners which customers took out of their respective bins to contemplate--and did not dutifully return--were placed in a box off to the side. The contents of the box grew bigger and bigger until it was empty again. I asked my store-manager friend, "What do you do with the stuff in the box?" "We throw it away when the box is full", he replied. Although horrified, I maintained my composure quite well given the circumstances and said, "I will be happy to take them from you whenever the box is about full."

He thought a moment and said, "Well, you might have to come in every week to pick it up. Wouldn't that be an inconvenience?" Instead of holding out for free home delivery, I told him that if I failed to come in at least once a week to go ahead and toss them. I thought this was a reasonable accommodation since I was frequenting his store at least two or three times a week.

Eventually, emptying the contents of this little box each week into a bigger box (I already had the bigger box at home) resulted in a LOT of fasteners. They sat in the big box for years. Every time I could not find something in my already well labeled and cataloged bin system, I would dig through the big box. What I needed was almost always to be found.

Over the years, this became inconvenient. Last week, I began the major sorting, inventorying and proper storage of all the fasteners. (All the nuts are finished. I have about seven screws left on my work bench, but they are very tiny . . . about 2-56, I think. I haven't started on the washers or the things that look like wood screws and sheet metal fasteners.) After thirty or forty hours of sorting screws, I began to wonder about the psychology of people that take fasteners (specifically, screws) out of store bins and do not return them. This led, quite naturally, to thoughts concerning the types of screws people screwed up on and consequently failed to return. This led to a discovery.

My research (for then it had become a formal process) revealed a statistically significant trend for humans (many of their customers) to return M6-1.0 screws to the shelf area, only later to be deposited in the little box by store employees. The scientific conclusion is that these screws were mistaken by customers, or potential customers (purchase data were not available in the sample), for 10-32.

Psychology is a fascinating field. Or, put in layman's terms, Ain't people weird?

--seal killer
ps My apologies to whomever's thread this may have been.

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I can't agree. I am a religious person, and according to the media, I'm supposed to be extremely hateful and narrow-minded, so I'm furious at garlic.

I'm disappointed that you didn't hold out for delivery, but your story has inspired me. From now on, when I need a fastener, I'll go to the hardware store, take it out, and put it in the wrong place. Then at the end of the month, I'll take home a box containing all the fasteners I need.

The local place just charged me $3.20 for a single M8 stud, so I feel justified.

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Bill, "and did not dutifully return--were placed in a box off to the side. " I'm amazed! I think I can say that all the slugs I've watched contemplating the incorrect (apparently) fastener they sought, returned them to any container other than the one from which it came.
I believe that even if the store were to provide a box labelled PLEASE RETURN UNDESIRED FASTENERS HERE it would, at the end of the week, be empty.
The thought also fleetingly crossed my mind that any of the miscreants called "sales associates" could spend some of the hours usually spent picking their noses and chatting up other "sales associates"
of the opposite sex (maybe not necessarily) actually returning fasteners to their proper containers (what a dreamer).
It's sad small wonder so many hardware purveyors have resorted to overpackaging these items in amounts cleverly calculated to NEVERmeet the amount customers require.