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    LEM Motorized Big Bite Sausage Stuffer Experience - Gear Teeth Broke after 1st Use

    Don’t tap the foot pedal when the stuffer is fully retracted. I think this is where the splines broke as it tried to extend past the limits of travel and made popping noises and tripped the breaker.
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    LEM Motorized Big Bite Sausage Stuffer Experience - Gear Teeth Broke after 1st Use

    It was my first time using it. It was a Christmas gift from my wife.
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    If you build it they will come

    Thanks for the kind words! It is a slow process with two toddlers and two jobs, but I have made some more progress. I quit drinking so the chest freezer is now filled with meat to smoke (next to the same chest freezer in my garage). My wife and I grouted a mosaic on the pizza oven with leftover...
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    If you build it they will come

    Well I’m almost done with the brick oven, we cooked our first pizzas last Thursday night. The smoker has been awesome, I am smoking about 50lbs when I fire it up. The taps are a bit too. I had a IPA, IIPA, IIIPA, IIIIPA, and two sparkling waters on tap for a party.
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    If you build it they will come

    Well I’ve been working on this project trying to get ready for my daughters 1st birthday party for which I am smoking 50 lbs of butts. I realized that stucco was just cement mortar so I whipped some up and gave it a go. Looks good and saved a ton versus a stone veneer. The wife bought off on...
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    If you build it they will come

    Wulp a pallet of 500 firebrick came on Friday! Got to work on the smoker and pulling forms off the countertop. Made a fire mortar mix with 10 parts silica sand, 6 fire clay, 3 lime, 2 cement. There was a learning curve on laying brick, glad I started there instead of the grill as the smoker...
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    Grassy's outdoor cooking - Smoker. Build

    Awesome! How about some action shots of the cooking
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    If you build it they will come

    Hi smokers, I am in the process of building a backyard kitchen consisting of a Argentinian Adobo style grill, a pizza oven, a vertical smoker, a sink, and 6 taps of draft homebrew beer. Kind of at a bit of a loss on the smoker portion as I keep going in circles on what to do. My initial...
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    My Brick Pit/Tuscan Grill Project

    Looks awesome!
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