What do YOU use to home roast?

[liteglobe]

Re: What do YOU use to home roast?

Looking from in top

[liteglobe]

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Heat guns inside

[liteglobe]

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Old vacuum cleaner motor

[liteglobe]

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Pics

[liteglobe]

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More pics fluid bed roaster

[Thundergod]

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Looks good lightglobe.
How about a few more pics?

[liteglobe]

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Here is my AUSTRALIAN version of seedlings dual  h/g 350/500g fluid bed roaster
Low cost used many items existing in w/shop ,New items cost $120.
Bean chamber 2 s/s flour sifters & coleman gas lantern globe.
Completed 12 roasts happy with results.
Will email details to any interested c/s

[MaxPower]

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Nice roasters out there guys!

Cheers for the pics and keep up the good work!

My fav to use is the Gene, I hear they have a new model on the way! Cant wait!!!!

[yeeza]

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Theyre in most homeware cheapo 2-buck shops. Ive seen em everywhere in different sizes. Ive had mine for ages now and its the goods.

[Thundergod]

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I found mine in Belmore.
Thats not too far from Hurstville.

[Huhness]

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thats exactly what i need to look out for. Ill drop into a few $$ stores in hurstville when im down on the weekend. There are so many of them there!

Thanks Mate

[Thundergod]

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Im hoping to make something which holds more beans. ATM it holds about 300g.

I recently bought a sieve at a $$ shop to do just that.

It looks like a cake tin with a fine mesh bottom.
The top edge has a lip so if you carefully cut that bin lid to size the sieve should fit nicely.
Similar to this pic.
[img]http://www.foodutensils.com.au/images/277T39308_SS_Seive_with_SS_Mesh.jpg
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[Huhness]

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Here is my new setup. I upgraded from 2 poppers ;D

Got the BM for $25 and just the usual Ozito HG mounted on a drill stand.


60L bin with ceiling fan blowing air up through the beans.


Im hoping to make something which holds more beans. ATM it holds about 300g.


Here is my workspace.


So far the largest roast I have done is 500g which came out great! Still waiting on the new USB DMM.

Thanks for all the great ideas you provided.

[brainiac]

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Hi ACog

Im pleased with the way this turned out - even won me a prize!  [smiley=thumbup.gif]
http://www.homeroasters.org/php/foru...&thread_id=570

I see no problems with scaling, as long as attention is paid to the usual issues of increased input power requirements, bean agitation, etc.

Brian

[acoggins]

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Hi Brainiac,

Thats quite a nice looking machine youve got there. I wonder if you could scale it up for larger batches?

-ACog