Guest guest Posted March 28, 2007 Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 Does anyone have plans for a homemade dehydrator. I had one many years ago but lost the plans along the way. Mine used a plug in car heater and had vinyl screening. Sure would like to build a smaller version if anyone can help out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 At Wed, 28 Mar 2007 it looks like kanejubejube composed: > Does anyone have plans for a homemade dehydrator. I had one many years > ago but lost the plans along the way. Mine used a plug in car heater > and had vinyl screening. Sure would like to build a smaller version if > anyone can help out. > Back in the days of... one would just set a heat lamp, or light bulb in the stove, with the food, and leave in there with the door shut -- stoves vent naturally. Others would find an old discarded small refrigerator (size of a small TV) and do the light bulb thing with some small vents drilled in the top. Being an ex-steel worker, we used to love old refrigerators for we'd store our new and recently opened cans of welding rods in there with one small heat lamp and it would keep the rods (and most important, their powdered coatings) free of any moisture. The would stay warm to the touch too which passed for the " pre-heating " part of welding rods prior to use so the inspectors would be pleased... -- genius to understand the simplicity. " (Dennis Ritchie) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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