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[calldoctoday]

processhead I understand & wonder myself how I am able to continue looking at buildings. The number stamped on the bearing looks like 8203 to me, but possible B203 or 820B. Is there anywhere locally that you can take them too vs the online thing?

[processhead]

Making some progress today. I have the new bearing in the motor and the motor runs nice and quiet now like it should.

Next up I need to address a bad seal in the gearbox that runs the bowl. The oil level was low when I got the machine and there was evidence underneath that oil was getting past the seal on the input drive shaft to the gear box.

Seal should be here Monday. While I have it torn apart, it will get a couple of bearings. I need to turn a bushing that goes on the sheave clutch. Still under $60 total in parts so I consider that a win.

I am impressed by the build quality of these Hobart machines. All the subassemblies are constructed with heavy duty milled and machined parts.
They were designed to log thousands of hours, then be rebuilt and do it all over again.

[Dave in AZ]

Farking cool! I wish you lived in my neighborhood, I’d be over all the time watching you fix stuff. You know your mech!

[samspade]

Looks like your making some good progress.

[calldoctoday]

processhead Fantastic, great job & good progress!

[mrobisr]

processhead How refreshing it is to find equipment that is meant to be worked on compared to… well just throwing it away. Keep posting the updates it is very nice to see the work in progress.

[processhead]

Reassembled the bowl drive today. Filled up the oil in the bowl drive gear box. No leaks after putting in the new shaft seal and running well. Set the belt tension and alignment. Set the chopper knife clearance with the bowl.
Ready to do some test grinds and chopper runs.

[mrobisr]

processhead I am so glad you were able to bring that old wonderful piece of equipment back to life.

[calldoctoday]

processhead That thing looks beautiful. You did a great job. I have full confidence in your workmanship in bringing that thing back to a good life.

[processhead]

mrobisr said in Estate Sale Score:

processhead I am so glad you were able to bring that old wonderful piece of equipment back to life.

Thanks for the encouragement! I really enjoy the challenge and experience gained while fixing and building the equipment that supports this hobby.

[processhead]

This beast weighs in at just shy of 180lbs. My biggest worry was having it fall off the cart while I was working on it. Or having it land on me.

[mrobisr]

processhead No kidding, I didn’t realize it was that much of a beast.

[bocephus]

processhead You did a great job on getting it back to great condition.

[glen]

processhead Good to see your success great job, looks fantastic

[samspade]

I love seeing old equipment put back in service. It’s like they speak to you and say thank you.

[wdaly]

processhead She’s definitely a beauty. Bet you’ll get years of work out of her.

[PapaSop]

processhead
Nice job! Looks showroom.

[Dave in AZ]

processhead really nice restoration job! How much meat can you process at once in the Buffalo chopper side?

[processhead]

Dave in AZ said in Estate Sale Score:

processhead really nice restoration job! How much meat can you process at once in the Buffalo chopper side?

I hope to find out soon. My old chopper had a 14 inch bowl. This one is 18 inches.

I found that for best results I had to keep the 14 inch chopper bowl at less than it’s physical capacity of meat or it would slow down and not give a good emulsion. The sweet spot was a little over 2 lbs so for large sausage batches it would take multiple chopper batch runs.

The specified capacity is just the volume of the bowl. That doesn’t tell you very much about the actual capacity since that depends on what it is you are chopping. You can probably chop a lot more cabbage than you can ground pork butts, if you see what I mean.

[processhead]

My wife needed some ground fresh pork today to make wontons for soup so I used that for an excuse to try out the new grinder/ chopper. Although the grinder is the same size No.12 head as my old one, it now has about three times the horsepower driving it and seems to run at higher RPM.
I ran about 3 lbs of semifrozen pork through a 3/16 plate and was done in about a minute.
I set aside a 1 lb of the ground pork for my wife’s project and put the remaining 2 lbs in the bowl chopper with some water and a small amount of left over breakfast sausage season I had on hand.
I ran the chopper about 5 minutes, adding a small amount of additional water. It did a great job of emulsifying all the ingredients and would work equally well for bologna or fine ground wieners . I will have to do another test run to see what the maximum batch size will be. The two lbs of meat came nowhere close to the capacity of the bowl.