Hi Matt, Using the roof was not all that uncommon a practice years ago.
You would, of course, need to have the fruit or whatever on some sort of rack such as hardware cloth and also covered by the same to keep the wee little birdies from dining out. This method is pretty blamed effective. Cy, The Anasazi From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Matt Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 6:58 AM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Considering building my own apple drier or dehydrator The fan is something that concerns me. The one I drug up, which I already had is small, maybe 8 inches or smaller, but it's meant for cooling a small place for a person, so that may be too strong. Perhaps if the heatting element is in bottom and the fan in top pointed down, to push the hot air back down, and then vents on bottom so that the heat continues to rise, and any excess gets blown out through bottom? I'm just not sure. I have old tower cases of computers I have out-grown, and they have fans, but extracting them and using them... I just don't see myself messing with it. I've considered setting up a system in shelving in my bedroom closet even. Funny all of the things which cross your mind when you're being kind of cheap and lazy and looking at existing cabinets. My wife's grandmother told us that her neighbor used to put apples up on the roof for drying and I read an account on the net of people in the old days spreading them out on the tin roof of a shed. ----- Original Message ----- From: Betsy Whitney, Dolphin Press To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 11:01 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Considering building my own apple drier or dehydrator Speaking of using existing things, my friend that I mentioned yesterday tells me that she has now made a dryer out of the cupboard above her refridgerator. She took out the bottom and the top and replaced them with screen. For heat She installed a light fixture inside to create heat and the circulation from the refridgerator fan creates the circulation to move the air. She's been drying all sorts of things, but says that if you're drying such things as apples you may have to slice them thinner than you would for an actual dehydrator. At 04:36 PM 7/10/2010, you wrote: > > >hahahah, funny you should mention that. I've >been looking around for an existing closed >cabinet or something which I could rig up like >that, and one thing I have considered has been an old dressor. >----- Original Message ----- >From: Keith Christian >To: <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com>blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> >Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 4:23 PM >Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Considering building my own apple drier or dehydrator > >Hi Matt, >I use to grow hops for brewing. I dried them by setting them in an old >dresser with a fan attached to the back side. The bottoms of the drawers >were removed and I inserted some wire mesh to allow the air to flow through >the hops. It worked great. > >Sounds like fun. Let us know what you decide and how it works out. > >Keith > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
