I recently helped my oldest daughter make 20 lbs of 50% ground elk and 50% ground pork into a breakfast sausage and the same amount and % of meat into Italian sausage along with about 15-18 lbs of ground elk.
We used their huge 1.75 HP Cabelas grinder which takes a #42 plate and knife. The plate is 5 inches in diameter. My #22's plates for my 1 HP Cabelas are 3.5 inches across.
I've always used a separate stuffer for sausage, even when I stuffed into the tube bags however they use the stuffer along with a dead man foot switch which came from Cabelas. It worked great, however the switch is very small and lightweight and was easily kicked around and had to be drug back out. I also didn't like the way the power cord plugged in. Here's an online pic of their switch:
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It's hard to see but the grinder's cord plugs into the switch's cord.
I also found the $50.00 price for the switch unreasonable. Pretty much paying for the name. I will give them credit in that the housing was sheet metal.
Well being part Scot off to Harbor Freight went I. Their dead man switch was $14.00 before tax. Here's theirs:
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It's much larger but the housing is plastic. So I dug out some scrap wood and made a base for it. I found the higher switch a bit awkward so I added a raised 'heel'. I had some 1/8" thick black rubber left over from this project. https://sharprazorpalace.com/finer-t...n-project.html so I used it on the bottom of the base and on top of the heel.
Here's the finished results.
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It works great--well it seems to work great turning kitchen appliances on but I will find out how it works with the grinder later.