My Homemade Water Stuffer

[johnholmes28]

 

[SmokinAl]

It looks great, we would love to see it in action!

Would you go over to the roll call section & introduce yourself, so we can all give you a SMF welcome. Thanks!

 

[BGKYSmoker]

Thats cool

Ditto with AL

 

[adiochiro3]

Wow, that is quite a nice bit of engineering!  Building one myself in the next week or two.  No more hand stuffing after last weekend's 16 lb. adventure!  Our 2 grinders didn't work for stink when it came to stuffing!!!!  

 

[adiochiro3]

It looks great, we would love to see it in action!

Would you go over to the roll call section & introduce yourself, so we can all give you a SMF welcome. Thanks!

 

[solaryellow]

Nice job! I still haven't ordered the parts for mine yet. What size PVC did you use? 6"? From the photos, it looks like the plunger is 2 pieces of HDPE or is that another groove for an O ring? How much capacity do you have with it?

I am limiting myself to 3 questions for now.

 

[johnholmes28]

Its made out of 8" pvc and is 3' 4" in length. The piston was machined out of a solid piece of 8" UHMW polyethylene. It holds roughly 60 pounds of meat. I will try and get video next time i do some grinding. It still needs quite a few small modifications but i stuffed 55lbs of sausage and 40lbs of deer bacon burger
for the first time last weekend and it worked great. I will head over to the roll call section shortly. Im new to this so bare with me guys. Feel free to ask questions about the stuffed!

 

[onytay]

That's pretty slick, I'm assuming you run it upright like pictured and the height was figured to match with your table top? I like it. Any idea what you have invested in it? Where did you get materials?

 

[DanMcG]

Very cool setup John , i can't wait to see it in action!

 

[big casino]

looks awesome I'd love to see it in action

 

[roller]

Cool ! ! !  Like to see it in action...

 

[johnholmes28]

I should be doing some grinding in the next week or to so ill try to figure out how to set up a link for video. I've got about 500 bucks into it. I bought the piston stock from interstate plastics online and the flanges from pvcfittings.com . I had to find a plumbing supply company locally to buy the 8" pic from and they only sell it in 20' sticks. The guy that did the machining on the piston got the o-rings. I think they are 1/8" but we Polly should have used 1/4". It took several tries to get the piston to seal but not jam in the pipe. Thanks for all the replies!

 

[johnholmes28]

I do run it vertical like shown and i designed the height of it to work with the table i use for processing.