Crusher question

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I left mine as is when I added a motor to my manual crusher. I just increase or decrease the speed as necessary.
 
I adjusted mine all the way out. I wanted as gentle of a crush as possible, specifically trying to avoid crushing seeds. There are however some downsides. A % of the grapes will go through uncrushed and isn't until pressing that the juice/sugar is released. It will go dry in the coming days/weeks, but something to be cognizant about.

I found this doesn’t work too well with whites, as it hurts the yield, with the type of press I have.
 
We adjust the roller width to the size of the berries.

This year we acquired a variable speed motor. We'll try adjusting for speed, too. Should make for an interesting crush.
 

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