New repair holds!

A bottle of cider secured two short odd lengths of Dexion type steel angle:



and luckily I found two more packets of the stainless coachbolts
so batch 7 is in the bag, well, fermenter...
just got to unload the press then bedtime methinks

Spectacular Crack!

Yep, that upright could take no more... the heads sheared off the bottom screws holding the steel repair...
thing is, I'd got another couple of litres to get the 30 for that batch (no.6) and so yet another hasty repair was required - shoestring of what?
I found some stainless steel coachbolts and a few more big screws...
reloading the press - 12 sheets of ply and pommy bloomin' heavy! - I, tentatively... got just enough to reach the rim of the fermenter - not quite 30 litres then, but I wasn't complaining.
Search is on for that fence post now all right...

I'd managed to drag 3 x 12' lengths of 4" steel channel from a customer's hedge bottom - bit on the rusty side it has to be noted (probably been in the hedge for 10yrs at least!) and managed to get it home strapped to the ladders on the roof rack - taking it very steady of course, especially round corners - seems even rust is heavy!
But as I'm a way off getting that cut up, blasted and drilled etc. I'm still gonna need that fence post...

First of the steel homeward bound: