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musselman999 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:52:50 GMT

By the way. Maximum roaster pics. Wow. Sorry I'm late to the party. Got my hands on a Hottop roaster for a few weeks. My dad is semi-retired and likes to

Re: Coffee Roaster Dry Run today

Gene Smith — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:26:47 GMT

Wow, that would be great, Jon. Haven't been able to roast in weeks. I would be very happy to take you up on your generous offer and borrow one of yours until

Re: Coffee Roaster Dry Run today

Jon R — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:54:10 GMT

gene - if you continue to have issues then shoot me an email. I have a spare TO top just sitting on a shelf unused (plus the one I have on my SCTO is fairly

Re: Coffee Roaster Dry Run today

John Foster — Sun, 17 May 2009 04:04:29 GMT

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:29 PM, mchlmaxim wrote: Whoever said "6 lbs" may be on the mark (however the limit may be roasted bean ejection

Re: Coffee Roaster Dry Run today

Gene Smith — Sun, 17 May 2009 03:55:59 GMT

Dead Chinese fan motor in the Turbo Oven, Jon. I actually found a replacement TO, but it's a different brand and built differently. The dead hombre is a

Re: Coffee Roaster Dry Run today

Jon R — Sun, 17 May 2009 03:30:45 GMT

Gene - whatsamatter with the SCTO? As for the roaster - way way cool. You say it'll be quiet, but can you still hear beans a crackin'?

Re: Coffee Roaster Dry Run today

Gene Smith — Sun, 17 May 2009 03:10:22 GMT

... Care to share how much it would cost to duplicate your design, Mike? I'm completely fascinated but everything sounds very expensive. Or am I mistaken?

Coffee Roaster Dry Run today

mchlmaxim — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:30:38 GMT

Today, I pulled the switch for the 1st time. All controls - Green lite, Blower - Green lite. What? No drum rotation. The new VFD was configured wrong. I

Re: Finally it's done...

mchlmaxim — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:45:28 GMT

Yup, I concur. Mike

Re: Finally it's done...

John Foster — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:10:09 GMT

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:57 PM, mchlmaxim wrote: My target roast temperature is 415 to 420 F and I want a 12-14 min roast (this is based

Re: Finally it's done...

mchlmaxim — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:57:17 GMT

To my fellow Bean Burners, My target roast temperature is 415 to 420 F and I want a 12-14 min roast (this is based on my research of what professional roaster

Re: Finally it's done...

WILLIAM GIFFEN — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:21:17 GMT

Hey guys, if you need beans to burn ? I will make a deal to anyone who wants to buy minimum of 10 lbs at my cost. This means 1.95-2.75 per lbs for some of my

Re: Finally it's done...

John Foster — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:22:58 GMT

My wild guess says 6-8# batch sizes...

Re: Finally it's done...

Jon R — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:18:45 GMT

How is the air temp controlled? Can you cycle the heaters, or mix in outside air? Won't tumbling in 1000F air cook too fast, even if the flow is

Re: Finally it's done...

mchlmaxim — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:56:33 GMT

I have yet to determine the batch size. I say this because all of my thermodynamic heat calculations don't necessarily take "real-world" into account. My