I used to see some web sites that had pretty good food dehydrator construction plans/ideas but don't seem to locate any now. Any one know of any??? RM~
Jerky maker (dehydrator) plans??
Jun 27, 2008
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While I don't know of any site that has plans, I remember the one a teacher of mine built. It was about 2'x2'x5' the upper half contained a series of slots and screen shelves. (where the material to be dried was placed.)
In the lower half he placed a space heater facing the opposite side and a piece of sheet metal wedged into a curve to deflect the heat upwards. The top was open. The screened shelves were boxed in making it more a "drying tunnel' than a dehydration box. It did the trick though.
Sorry I don't have more precise measurements. But I remember this from the 6th grade and I'm 45 now.
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Did you get to eat any?
Yeah, but it wasn't too fun for kid not use to camping. I put the piece of dried apple in my mouth and it promptly sucked every bit of water out of it.
Anything like these?
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Thanks for the thought, RM~
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but I would bet those would work great if mine conked out. Mine is a ceramic cone wrapped with an exposed screen door spring like heating element such as you would see in an elect dryer coiled arround the outside. It has a screw base at the bottom of the cone just like a regular light bulb. RM~
As JOAT would say if he were still posting, "google is your friend."
A google search on "ceramic screw base heating element" (without the quotes) turned up a number of hits.
Follow this link:
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at the second picture down on the page. I think that is the exact one you are talking about.
Joe aka 10x
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