Fruit squisher

We brought an apple/grape press when we got the Destroi. We tried it out on watermelon. I love water melon juice. When I had a development team in India I went out there a number of times and had loads of it. You just don't seem to get it in the UK or here.
The press has a very cunning double ratchet which took us some time (and WD40) to get working properly. It has pointed metal pieces that let it ratchet one way or the other depending which way they are in. The idea is that you wind the mechanism down the screw thread until it touches the wooden blocks, you then ratchet to tighten until the juice is all squished out. You then reverse the direction of the metal pointy things and unscrew so you can remove the pulp and clean the press out. There were no instructions and the ratchet didn't work at all to start with so we were a bit lost... persistance paid off though.

 The first half we tried with bags around the bits of water melon in the press and the remaining half without. It was easier to clean afterwards with the bags, but the juice was tastier without. We got nearly a bottle (I suppose the bottle is 75cl) from each half.

We also tried it with apples. But I think they needed to be minced smaller than shown here. But not as small as I then made them with the food blender (they just squished through the gaps). It seems there is a bit of a knack to it which we haven't fully got yet.