First real test run done. Yesterday evening before going to bed I set up the system with temp setting 85C and full magazine of smoke pucks. Oh, and one brisket. Unfortunately last night was a bit cold. System could not get temperature higher than 70C and due to a software bug (what was I thinking? Probaply nothing, as usual) feeder spent five hours worth of pucks in about two hours before getting jammed due to too low stepper motor current limiter setting. Anyhow... Brisket turned out tender, moist and delicious: This morning I changed the setting to cold smoking, put piece of salmon there, loaded magazine, set the temperature to 7C, started the system and slipped and slided to work. Soon (relatively soon, in a day or two) to be cold smoked salmon: After about 2hrs, I got message from home saying there is no more smoke! Went home during lunchbreak and checked the system. Again I built something with too tight tolerances. Apparently about 2% of smoke pucks are 3mm thicker than "nor...
Tänään oli sitten se suuri päivä kun herra rakennustarkastaja kävi tontilla toteamassa rakennushässäkän olevan valmis. Nyt on sitten "leima" papereissa ja voi alkaa sisustamaan "varastoa". Ensimmäisenä nousi seinälle miljoonalaatikosto josta näyttää puuttuvan muutama laatikko. Missähän lienee? Nyt on sitten vain mielikuvitus rajana eli voisi laittaa laminaatin lattiaan ja rakentaa baaritiskin grillikatoksesta ylijääneestä graniittitasosta. Mistähän saisi mancaveen sopivan oluthanan?
Still needs some screws, nuts, washers, bolts etc. Here in this picture below you see a very nice tablecloth that obfuscates all the plastic parts from clear view. Those black plastic pieces will connect aluminium profiles together to form the frame of the printer. Let's see what we have already. Aluminium profiles from eBay, still waiting to get some more. €55.70 + €61.82 Printed plastic parts from Lulzbot $133.85 (104.82€) Leadscrews and nuts, Belts and pulleys + bunch of bearings from Techpaladin $111.09 (86.99€) Nema 17-motors from own warehouse. Arduino Mega 2650 from eBay (not received yet) $24.88 (19.48€) Pololu A4988 motor controllers from eBay (not received yet) £38.50 (47.61€) Linear bearings and rods. eBay, 83.94£. (104.25€) (Total 480.67€ with todays exchange rate. Not including customs fees etc 24.85€) So that leaves something to find before this thingamajig can be built: Screws. Lots of screw...