Universal Nut Sheller

Step 46 Set on 1/2 Oil Drum and Adjust

Set on box or 1/2 oil drum or other supporting object. To adjust for shelling bigger or smaller nuts raise or lower the rotor. To raise the rotor release the lock nut and spin handle to expose more thread on shaft. To lower the rotor do the opposite.

Setting for Nut Size:

Shell a nut by hand. Drop through gap in metering plates. If the nut falls through the bottom of the machine, raise the rotor by turning the handle clockwise. If the nut fails to drop through, lower the rotor until it does. At that point tighten the lock nut.

Fine Tuning:

Shell 1 liter of nuts. If breakage rate is high lower rotor. If too many nuts are unshelled raise rotor. In the case of any nuts with a wide variety of sizes you may have to set for large nuts and seperate unshelled small nuts and pass through machine again.

Seeting for Volume of Nuts Shelled:

If nuts shell too slowly. Loosen wingnut on metering plate and adjust top plate to open gap.

Setting for Larger Nuts

If you want to set for larger nuts you may have to undo the two small bols on the the top bearing tube with an adjustable wrench and drop the entire assembly as far as necessary.

Comments

[_soapy_]

Should you not calibrate this with an unshelled nut? You want the shelled nuts to fall clear, but the unshelled nuts to get caught and crunched.

[The Full Belly Project]

No you want to use a singular shelled nut. The space between the rotor and the stator tapers towards the bottom allowing only enough space for the shelled nuts to get through after their shells have been sheared off. You want there to be just enough room for that to happen. You could try calibrating it with a shelled nut and just see at what point the nuts are shelled without breaking but in our experience what you are looking for is the shelled nut to get stuck at the bottom lip but not break...We'll have an instructional video that explains all this up soon.