De-Stemming Grapes
Following on from LEGO IDEAS - Do you want to go to the seaside? - Coastal Vine Harvest which was my last contest entry, I wanted to create the next step in the process after grape harvesting. This is a simple conveyor with de-stem machine adjacent to each other.
- Turn the gear to move the grapes up the conveyor to drop them in to the de-stem machine.
- Turn the gear on the de-stem machine to roll the grapes around gently. (In the real world, the grapes would be bashed an macerated until they fall through the spinning blades prior to "pressing")
- Remove the hopper to get your pcs back and replace hopper to play again!
I wanted this model to look more like a minifig scale model than a Technic machine and i discovered that working on this smaller scale proved quite tricky!
(In particular to get the grapes to collect and then drop off the conveyor in the right way.)
Here's the machine in action...
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