VII. EXPERIMENTS PERFORMED:
Three experiments were conducted by altering the blades and varying the speed and selecting the best one. The details of experiments are as given below.
7.1. EXPERIMENT 1:
In this experiments a set of two cutters with spacers inbetween for each grade of Areca nut were used. The speed of the cutter shaft was at 125 rpm. The Areca nut was fed below the cutters. As it can be seen from the images below, the outer shell of most of the Areca nuts fed was not being removed completely. Due to these problems the experiment was not satisfactory.