Malted
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Inspired by Malted's "5 minute 'bodggit and leggit' hop press" but not having any steel-pipe, I made a Hopsquash from 90mm PVC pipe fittings:
... now I need to spend a day or two squishing and packing them all.
Bodggit and leggit FTW!
Wow you must have got sick of twisting that clamp handle around! I got sick of squishing the quick clamp pistol grip thingy pretty darned quickly but don't know how I would cope with a clamp like yours (I have exactly the same too but chose not to use them). As I was doing it I was thinking, hmm next year I should build something with a ram powered by the air compressor. But hey where is the ghetto in that?
I had the suction bags ready made and shoved each plug in as I did them, the buggers expand a bit soon afterwards.
Is there a reason you went for 30g plugs? I only went that size because 30g of loose hop cones filled my compression tube. I cut the tube and first and then figured out what would fit in it. I guess I also thought that it was 1/3 the size of a pack you would purchase. A few English plugs I have used were around 12-15g.