Sounds great! :tu
How did the case hardening come out with the storage? :shrug:
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Sounds great! :tu
How did the case hardening come out with the storage? :shrug:
It wasn’t severe. Even with a couple days in vacuum seal, it equalized fairly well. I still have another half under seal for later. I need to get a new meat slicer now that I have more stuff like this on the way. I’m saving some Amazon points to get one either free or mostly free. The one I have is cheap, old, and making some odd noises.
Well I've been working on and off on an upgrade for my little smoker. Ever since I got it up and running I've slowly been getting it to where I want it.
I've just used a stainless steel bowl to cover the exhaust to hold the heat in while it warms up and then adjusted it to where I wanted it for the smoke to escape and to help adjust the internal heat. However I wasn't happy with it. So I picked up the pieces that I needed to make an adjustable exhaust.
No before pics of my own but here's some factory pics--The damper and stove pipe are 24 gauge steel;
The damper;
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12" of stove pipe;
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And the stainless steel cap;
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I purchased some fine mesh in stainless to keep bugs from getting in and secured it to the metal ring in the cap with aluminum pop rivets;
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I purchased some 1/8" thick silicone and cut it fit inside the damper to cover the holes and to seal closer between the flapper and the inside of the pipe but I'm not happy with the result so I'll be redoing that part. With that said, it's not too bad;
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I painted the damper and stove pipe with high temp paint and got it 'semi installed'--I want to drill and screw the pieces together and to the smoker but it is usable;
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I picked up some new hardware recently. I’ll see how it performs this weekend. Also, I got a new batch of sausage drying. They are getting covered in white mold nicely. I used a more generous casing this time. Hopefully they will have more substance than the last batch when done.
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I translate that 'finger aw crap' to (It sits on top of the sausages) which I would presume would be that apartment size frig that you have adapted to making dry cured goods. Good thinking :tu
I'd store my 1 hp grinder out in the garage if it wasn't so damn heavy so it sits on the floor with a plastic garbage bag over it to keep it clean.
I agree 100%! :tu
Back before the divorce I was planning on building a garage/shop/sausage building all in one as we had 1/3rd of an acre. I had access to a guy who could supply me with used commercial walls that you find in grocery stores, he also could provide the cooling units and compressors. I could have had an 8'x8' walk in cooler. But that was before the divorce :banghead:
As Jerry Reed once sang 'She got the Gold Mine, I got the shaft'. I've always found it funny that one of his back up singers was his WIFE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyqe8n-pbqQ