Extruders/Plodders
Sunlab plodders are designed on the basis of the results of many years experience of the extrusion of soap and allied products on a small scale. These machines are not simply scaled down versions of production models but represent a positive attempt to meet the needs of the special user. Careful consideration has been given to ease cleaning, dismantling and re-assembly by the elimination od areas where residues collect, this also simplifies operation.
The machines are robustly designed and working pats are generously proportioned with large bearing areas and are constructed on traditional lines to give a long and trouble free life. In the unlikely even that a fault should develop a competent engineer can dismantle and re-assemble the machines without any specialised tools.
The design consists essentially of a jacketed barrel to allow water cooling/heating, hopper with an interlocked safety grid, refining plate, nose cone, die plate and retaining nut, all in stainless steel and a high alloy aluminium worm with a hard anodised finish (a stainless steel worm can be substituted if required). The barrel is bolted onto a steel bearing housing containing a high quality thrust race bearing to absorb the end the end thrust from the worm. This is in turn mounted directly onto a variable speed helical motor gearbox resulting in a design which is very simple, extremely robust and has the minimum of moving parts.
The jacket around the barrel is fitted with quick fit hose connections and a simmerstat controlled mica heating element on the nose cone to warm the chamber and the die plate.
Sunlab plodders are designed on the basis of the results of many years experience of the extrusion of soap and allied products on a small scale. These machines are not simply scaled down versions of production models but represent a positive attempt to meet the needs of the special user. Careful consideration has been given to ease cleaning, dismantling and re-assembly by the elimination od areas where residues collect, this also simplifies operation.
The machines are robustly designed and working pats are generously proportioned with large bearing areas and are constructed on traditional lines to give a long and trouble free life. In the unlikely even that a fault should develop a competent engineer can dismantle and re-assemble the machines without any specialised tools.
The design consists essentially of a jacketed barrel to allow water cooling/heating, hopper with an interlocked safety grid, refining plate, nose cone, die plate and retaining nut, all in stainless steel and a high alloy aluminium worm with a hard anodised finish (a stainless steel worm can be substituted if required). The barrel is bolted onto a steel bearing housing containing a high quality thrust race bearing to absorb the end the end thrust from the worm. This is in turn mounted directly onto a variable speed helical motor gearbox resulting in a design which is very simple, extremely robust and has the minimum of moving parts.
The jacket around the barrel is fitted with quick fit hose connections and a simmerstat controlled mica heating element on the nose cone to warm the chamber and the die plate.