Re: [CH] dehydrators

The NorthEast ChileMan (thenortheastchileman@attbi.com)
Mon, 1 Jul 2002 01:23:41 -0400

Hi Keegan,
  Try these URL"s:
http://www.alpharubicon.com/prepinfo/dehydratorstryder.htm
http://www.ael.org/eric/voices/Voices3=act4.pdf

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/environment/alternative-energy/energy-re
sources/homepower-magazine/archives/29/29p62.txt

Hope this helps,
Paul

From: "Keegan Smith" <mrkeeg@hotmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, 29 June, 2002 9:12 PM
Subject: [CH] dehydrators
> Hi all,
> Question:  I think I've read of a home-made dehydrator:
> -make flat-ish boxes with plywood sides, screen/hardware mesh bottoms, no
> top.
> -stack them on top of eachother
> -for the bottom one, have holes in the sides, and a lightbulb
> -I think the idea is that the bulb heats the air, which flows up through
> your stacked boxes (with fruit on the mesh), and fresh air comes in
through
> the bottom holes
>
> Anyone tried something like this?  Sounds like it could be made fairly
> inexpensively - and be simple to fix if anything goes wrong.
>
> Thanks again,
> Keegan
>