"Don S" > wrote in message
om...
> One thing bothers me though, on the one had we talk about hand
> squeezing grapes or using a 3 pail system with one pail being
> filled with 70 pds of water, but when it comes to a press nothing
> less than a billion pounds per square inch will do? Seems on the
> one hand the good enough will do but on the other it has to be
> perfect??

It all comes down to what losses you are willing to tolerate and how much
manual labor you are willing to invest. As I said, for a small batch, you
could do the entire lot by hand.

Tom S