On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:09:40 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

First of all I live in Thailand where the source of wine making
equipment is strictly limited. To date I have been "crushing" grapes
by hand, stomping, and rubbing through a plastic basket (similar to a
milk crate) and to be frank it is a lot of work and I would like to
build a crusher, possibly a crusher/destemer.

Does anyone have plans, a photograph, or any other data about the
internal parts, or any other information, regarding crushers and how
they are function?
snip

Take a look at this Google patent search:

http://www.google.com/patents?q=wine...tents&n um=20

A few highlights that may be of interest:

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=581994

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=120400

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=88329

I'm sure you should be able to get some ideas from this. I'm
way out of my area of knowledge, other than finding ideas

--
Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
Remove no.spam for email