Good Morning- I’m hoping of some input from the hive mind. I got a little bit aggressive cleaning my chaff filter and broke the screen off of the metal ring. Anyone have any good ideas on adhesive or some way to reattach it?
Not much choice but to order a replacement (and a spare) from your dealer.
Bruce
If you are in the US, Sweet Marias sells them for $17.00 plus shipping.
Thanks Bruce. I was hoping someone knew of some kind of a high temperature food safe glue, but I sure don’t and I checked with AI and didn’t come up with anything better.
Ironically I ordered an extra that arrived just two days before I broke this one. I really want to have two of them for big roast days, so I guess I will add another next time I order green beans. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
The filter basket is stainless steel. It is safe to use Urnex Cafiza on this filter without it damaging the Filter basket. You can soak it in a container with a Cafiza solution for days and it will still be good. But you won’t need to soak it for days. The Cafiza works very quickly without any scrubbing. (you don’t need to be aggressive)
You have to be very careful when cleaning the aluminum exhaust fan with Cafiza. The Cafiza will ruin the aluminum fan. the Cafiza erodes the aluminum.
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Off topic somewhat… @billc, how do you clean the exhaust fan? And have you tested airflow clean/dirty?
Basically doing the same thing with Cafiza, but only for a very short duration. I also have a small paint brush that I have trimmed the bristles to about half length. That makes them stiff enough to get into the spots between the vanes. But not so stiff that it damages the blades.
I haven’t “tested” air flow clean/dirty but it is pretty obvious that if there is shmutz on the blades, the fan efficiency will be diminished.
The amount of shmutz that sticks to the blades of the fan is relational to the type of beans and how dark you roast. when you measure the weight of the beans before and after roasting, there is a lot of weight loss. That weight loss is water, usually in the form of steam that can stick to the blades and attracts smoke and dust debris.
My current setup is very untraditional:
I don’t use the filter basket anymore, I have removed half of the blades on the exhaust fan. I have a shop-vac that sucks the chaff through the chaff chamber (now without a filter) and then is caught in a Dustopper.
Here is a link to a long description with a lot of photos showing what I have done.
I only clean my chaff bucket-trap about once a month or longer.
At that point there will be 7 or 8 inches of chaff in the bucket but there is no filter basket to slow down the air flow and change my recipe results. I put a camera in the Filter housing and looked at the basket before doing this modification and there was always chaff surrounding the filter basket even if I put a vacuum in the trap-door access and tried to pull the chaff out.
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