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  • From: jhecksel@voyager.net
  • To: nafex@egroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Food dehydrater
  • Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 19:20:43 -0700



Sam Franc wrote:

> Continuing: You can make a good drier pretty easily if you are handy.
> The parts are all easy to obtain.
> Heating element
> Fan

Do you reckon a 500W hair drier would be too hot? They are cheap (almost
free at
yardsales 8-) )and have the fan and heating element integrated.


>
> Thermostat
> A little wire.
> A switch
> Build a box. Metal preferrably but wood works fine too.
> Make some shelves out of window screen.
> I made one once that way out of plywood and it worked just fine
> I made it 4 feet tall and about 2 feet square to take advantage of plywood
> size.
>
> Heater and fan in the bottom and exhaust out the top.
> I bought commercial aluminum window screen framing with the preformed corner
> joints and used fiberglas screening. Went together slick.
> Sam

Great idea Sam. I just need to find a place to put it in the off-season,
someplace
my boy won't find it and use it to store Pokemon cards.



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