Re: Oh, And....Re: Okay All You Meat Grinding Folks... what to grind first?

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:34:27 -0500, zxcvbob <zxcvbob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 7/23/2010 3:20 PM, jmcquown wrote:
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"jmcquown" wrote:

I think the guys at the grocery store finally got fed up with my
selecting
meat and asking them to grind it for me. So I broke down and bought an
electric meat grinder. It's mfg by Sky Enterprises USA and is a
2.6HP 2000W
grinder (with all the attachments, including those for stuffing sausage
casings).

Where did you buy that grinder?

A 2.6 horsepower grinder is more then what's at most butcher shops.
So I looked it up...
If the specs are true it's a remarkabel bargain:
http://tinyurl.com/2ehduas
http://www.amazon.com/2000W-Electric-Grinder-Heavy-Quality/dp/B003TTQD4Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1279914053&sr=8-1


I won it on an eBay auction (brand new) for $84 plus free shipping. I
won the auction on the 11th and it arrived last Saturday.
It may not be 2.6HP - the first one I bid on did say that but I lost
that auction and looked for another one. (The pictures were very
similar.) It's a Sky 800 electric grinder. The thing is, I didn't
unpack it until yesterday because I was still trying to find a place
to store it.

Jill

Here's the email I got from the seller after I won the auction:

"We have shipped your eBay Auction US Item # 150465190112.
NEW 2.6 HP 2000W ELECTRIC MEAT GRINDER INDUSRTRIAL"

Jill

I have a #12 grinder that looks almost identical to that one. The "2.6
HP" and "2000W" and "industrial" part are all BS, but the grinder works
great :-)

That's why I searched it out... just so happens that grinder is sold
at Amazon and the specs are listed the same, but it's gotta be a
misprint by a factor of ten; probably 200 w and .26 hp.

The only concern I have about the one you bought is the
little tabs on the ends of the plates. I've never seen that before, and
I'm pretty sure it means the plates are a nonstandard size.

The plates pretty much last forever if they are any good, so it still
might not be a problem.

Bob

Different grinder manufacturers employ different plate key
configurations; some use two tabs, some one tab, some a half hole that
keys on a dowel pin... there are literally thousands of different
grinder plates... when ordering new plates it's a good idea to supply
the old plate, they vary by outside diameter, thickness, shaft hole
diameter, hole pattern/size, and key configuration... also vary by
material, some are carbon steel, some are stainless steel.
.

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