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Wow this one is only $90 vs the LEM at $150. No contest. Where can I buy aftermarket stainless steel gears?I got mine off Northern Tool website but is actually a Kitchener Brand, includes 1/2" , 7/8" & 1" tubes !
Wow this one is only $90 vs the LEM at $150. No contest. Where can I buy aftermarket stainless steel gears?I got mine off Northern Tool website but is actually a Kitchener Brand, includes 1/2" , 7/8" & 1" tubes !
The Weston stuffer is the same price and has metal gears. By the time you get new gears if you can you will probably have paid that much. On the other hand if you don't bottom the piston out and keep trying to crank the handle the plastic gears will last forever.
Wow this one is only $90 vs the LEM at $150. No contest. Where can I buy aftermarket stainless steel gears?
So who offers them at a reasonable price??... We all know stainless is the way to go for food prep, etc., but who offers something reasonably priced for the home sausage maker that has stainless gears? Sorry, but I've only dealt with polymer gears and they suck. If I ever buy something I want to last, or if I want to start making volume, I'll buy something from F. Dick, Koch, or comparable. The only problem there is, you're gonna pay high $$$ because it's quality.
Stainless gears are probably the way to go.
stainless is just chrome plating on gears. carbon steel will run just fine until you are long gone if properly aligned and running with some lube. I can't see how this medieval looking thing would ever break as long as I don't have a overachiever on the on the handle.
Stainless gears are probably the way to go.
fiber gears work ok UNTIL you try to stuff snack stix ........... then they wont last long,ask me how I know :hit: ......
Well if it's any consolation to ya, I usually make sausage in batches anywhere from 10 - 50 lbs. and can't imagine doing a 50 lb. batch on my Maverick Kitchen grinder... I could grow a beard quicker!! I use it for small chores like making some bacon burger or making a few lbs. of something special. If I'm stuffing in hog casing I use the Hobart for large batches and the stuffer for small batches. I also use lubriplate on my gears and I marked the threads of the shaft with a paint stick about 1-1/2" from where the piston on my stuffer will bottom out, just so we know when you're getting close. My wife is usually the one cranking the handle and she has a good feel for it, I think I just managed to get a lemon with the stuffer I have. My friends and I get together after deer season and routinely make 100 or more lbs. so we stuff right out of my Hobart because it's so much faster.I'll still stick with my Kitchener I got on sale... I mean, most folks are not doing sausage every week or two ! Well, except Gary S, that guys a sausage makin machine as of late... LOL. BTW, he has just as I do a Kitchener grinder & stuffer.... My last comment in this thread, but again I think folks are overthinkin the plastic gears... Again, have not had any issues at all ! Slow up when your plunger gets close to the bottom ! My last 2 cents !
yeah ...... or metal gears ......You should really consider adding more water!
I can never find steals like this. Well done.
I got an exceptional deal today on 2 of the LEM 15lb stuffers at a liquidation place. $129.00 canadian each with taxes. Have wanted one with a lower gearing for doing snack sticks ..Sold the spare to a cousin.(at cost)
Cabelas and Gander Mountain rebrand everything and they sure do look just like the LEM stuffers. I'm 95% sure they are all the come off the same assembly line (with maybe a few minor details changed).
Cabelas, Gander Mountain and LEM 5 # stuffers with metal gears....ARE THESE ALL THE SAME, they sure look that way even in person????
You are about to see some really great prices in a month. Black Friday and cyber Monday usually mean up to 20% and/or free freight.
I know last year I held out and saved over 100.00 I think on my grinder.