Home | Community | Message Board
You are not signed in.
Sign In New Account
Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery


This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Mushroom Cultivation
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: MagicBag.co All-In-One Bags That Don't Suck   Sporeworks.EU Spores for European Microscopy   Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds   North Spore Bulk Substrate   Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order   Mushroom-Hut Substrate Bags

Jump to first unread post Pages: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |  [ show all ]
Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information. You may wish to search for newer posts instead.
Re: Home-made, high-volume Pressure Cooker [Re: LeopardMan]
    #11305399 -

That thing looks like a freaking ICBM about to take off.

Scary, but appealing...


Congrats!!!!

:smile: SF :smile:


--------------------
...and yes, you're reading my siggie now...

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Home-made, high-volume Pressure Cooker [Re: StratosFear]
    #11305556 -

That thing is a fuckin massive beast! :FattyNoneck:

Good Job Man!

:goodluck:


--------------------
***Brown    =]

"The world is only in the mind of its maker. Do not believe it is outside of yourself." - ACIM

"A new consciousness is developing that sees the earth as a single organism...and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed." - Carl Sagan

"As long as people continue to see themselves as being seperate from everything else, they lend themselves to being completely enslaved."
- Peter Joseph

"WE ARE POWERFUL...BEAUTIFUL...EXTRAORDINARY!"

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Home-made, high-volume Pressure Cooker [Re: wickerbasketBomB]
    #11305683 -

I can see the news now. Birdseed and jars rains from sky for days over local home.


--------------------
Dont know what the fuck I just said? READ THIS
http://www.shroomery.org/5122/The-Shroomery-Mushroom-Glossary
I ain't a hippy but I'm covered in dirt                         
Sippin lots of mushroom tea in a tye-dye shirt
Chasin' the Grateful Dead, no shoes on my feet
Beggin' in the parking lot for something to eat,

:onfire:DO NOT USE FIRE IN YOUR GLOVE BOX!!!!!!!:onfire:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Home-made, high-volume Pressure Cooker [Re: Puma]
    #11305692 -

Just for shiggles, make sure you videotape the first run at full pressure.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Home-made, high-volume Pressure Cooker [Re: RoosterCogburn]
    #11305727 -

That is by far the gnarliest thing I have scene in awhile!! Good Job as for any other comments about that thing exploding I think you've covered all you're bases those tanks are designed to hold a decent amount of pressure 15 psi isn't gonna phase that thing!! now it's just mass loads of sterilization...I wish you lived by me so I could come over and borrow it!!...e


--------------------
"Listen now I'm talking I've been here for weeks, waiting in this growing crowd staring at my feet, The world around me is Turning I'm just standing still, The time has come for changes do something or I will" Phish

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Home-made, high-volume Pressure Cooker [Re: HaRo On KoRn]
    #11305740 -

HaRo On KoRn said:
wanna help me make a potatoe gun capable of breaking the sound barrier and making one hell of a sonic boom?????????????????

all the plans and measurments are in my head just help me make my piston and chamber with that lath


lol you sound like my grandpa (RIP)


--------------------
"The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live."

If you want to get a hold of me, my email address is in my profile. Just click on my screen name. I got banned from using private messages cause I didn't follow the rules... :frown:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Home-made, high-volume Pressure Cooker [Re: cloudsaregathering]
    #11305772 -

Oh my god, just when you think you have seen it all something like this comes along and puts a big beaming smile on your face.

You beat Nasa, the Shuttle has now been superseeded :wink:

Nice work, gratz :smile:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Home-made, high-volume Pressure Cooker [Re: PilzeEssen]
    #11305785 -

One word....WOW!  :whoa:


--------------------
Gypsum/Drywall Tek
The Story Of Russell The Texas (Cube) Bear



The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
-Arnold J. Toynbee

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Home-made, high-volume Pressure Cooker [Re: Doctor]
    #11305789 -

Doctor said:
You beat Nasa, the Shuttle has now been superseeded :wink:




Depending on those welds, the altitude may be similar. :smirk:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Home-made, high-volume Pressure Cooker [Re: Herbal_Elixer]
    #11307480 -

Herbal_Elixer said:
TLW said:
All of that just to make a rubber sealed pressure cooker?

No offense or anything but, while this is cool and you seem to have taken extra care to be as safe as possible, any pressure cooker is dangerous and I sure hope no children are ANYWHERE near that beast.

With that in mind, that thing is so impractical looking. Where are you going to put it when you're not using it? You must have a huge house, and you must be growing mushrooms full time to warrant such a large pressure cooker. How do you get stuff in and out of the pressure cooker?

Grats though.



I would run that with confidence... no offense, safety first and all.. hell I even have 4 kids, but people have lost site of the fact that people used to be self sufficient like this. And with planning these things are very possible to acheive. Weighted relief valve.. I think.. that will pop off before anything else does.

Secondly, I would kill to have one that size, I'd throw a short pipe axle, two wheels, and a handle and lug that thing all around my yard.
Which the OP may consider to add for stability.

8 Bolts around the top: unbolt, fill, rebolt.. nice. I have a Snap On cordless impact that would knock that out in 2 secs..

I like it.. I think this one and the guy who did the keg one are the best home made jobbies I have seen so far.

OP:

Any ideas on removeable inner racks or anything yet?


Herbal_Elixer: Thanks for that. You're more technical than me. Weighted relief valve is what it is. One small risk I'm taking with the weighted relief valve, however, is that the valve currently has only one intake hole on the inside of the lid. So if that hole gets plugged by a large enough particle, the valve stops working. Production models (at least the ones I've looked at) have several redundant intake holes for their relief valve, to decrease the risk, if one gets clogged. I might add something inside the lid to help protect my one intake hole. But yeah, other than that I love the valve as it's easily adjusted with washers as weights, and vents like a damn!

I agree, we do lose sight of the fact that we're almost conditioned not to be self-sufficient these days. Consumerism only runs if we leave all fabrication up to the big corporations (who "know better"). But really, with a few tools, the right materials and careful planning, you can make all kinds of useful things. Like you say, the 8-bolt lid will be a breeze to unbolt and open (under a minute, if I do it the way you mentioned).

I like your idea of a way to shuttle it around. Because I'm going to convert it to electric, I think I'll actually set it up inside, so I can keep a closer eye on it. I'll post the final set-up fairly soon.

A few people asked about loading and unloading, and the interior of the PC. Essentially, building the bottom rack or trivet to keep substrate bags off the pot-bottom will be a bit of a challenge, because the PC mouth diameter is 8 inches wide, but main body of the PC is 14 inches. So we'll make it in two halves, reach inside, bolt them together into a round rack with legs, which will keep everything about 3 inches off the bottom.

I'm also going to sew together a cotton bag, made out of a large towel, that fits inside the PC as a liner. I read in these forums that a towel liner in a PC keeps autoclavable bags from melting on contact points with the PC.

We have already welded on 8 stubby pegs (angled upwards and inwards) to the inside of the PC near the lid. These will act as hangers for this towel liner. That will not only avoid contact of substrate bags with the metal sides of the PC, but it will help with loading and unloading as well.

For example, when loading, I'll load this liner with the first few substrate bags, and then lower the whole liner into the PC. As I lower it, I'll add more substrate bags, and by the time I set the liner down on the tray at bottom of the PC, I'll be able to load the top half in an easy, controlled way. Before putting on the lid, I'll hang the top of the liner on the pegs. After heating and cooling, I'll unload the upper contents, and then lift the whole liner to raise things from the bottom.

We'll see how it goes. I'll document the first full run of this beast!

Thanks to everyone for all the comments, encouragement and skepticism so far -- it's been great to read, made me smile. Let's hope I don't cause a rye grain to rain down like a layer of volcanic ash all across town.


--------------------

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Home-made, high-volume Pressure Cooker [Re: RoosterCogburn]
    #11307550 -

Looks like a nice job :smile:
I'd build removable safety legs so it couldnt fall over and test repeatedly to make sure stuff near the top is getting properly heated.. the height to width ratio seems awkward for efficient heating.
And seriously- make your mate clean his shop! That much chips and clutter will not let him achieve the machining tolerances he otherwise could. Not to mention the possibility of tripping and getting a finger yanked off by the lathe (it does happen).


--------------------
The Nook

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Home-made, high-volume Pressure Cooker [Re: truskool]
    #11307565 -

truskool said:
Ransom said:
Heh, damn this looks like more than a hobby. More like someone decided to quit there job. :stoned:

Good work.

:lmafo::rofl2:

thats how us canadians roll


So true, Truskool!


--------------------

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Home-made, high-volume Pressure Cooker [Re: Auxin]
    #11307594 -

Noted, Auxin...

I think the shop clutter is there to stay, but buddy has a knack for creating order out of chaos... Regarding your other comments regarding design safety and effectiveness, I'll post improvements and results as they happen... but bear in mind that pressure readings are taken from the top of the cylinder, and (with nothing but 4 litres of water inside) it reached 15 PSI from a cold start in under 15 minutes. So I'm optimistic... but we'll see.


--------------------

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Home-made, high-volume Pressure Cooker [Re: Puma]
    #11307673 -

SHE HAS A NAME!!!

I'm calling her the "All Canadian"!!! :rofl2:



--------------------

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Home-made, high-volume Pressure Cooker [Re: Puma]
    #11307733 -

Puma said:
SHE HAS A NAME!!!

I'm calling her the "All Canadian"!!! :rofl2:





:highfive:


--------------------

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Home-made, high-volume Pressure Cooker [Re: Herbal_Elixer]
    #11307771 -

let me just say that thing is amazing
a lil scary but awesome none the less

and do you have a link to thatbeer keg tek
the first one didnt work

good job on that monster

  -noobie-


--------------------
AMU

Best Thread Ever
CapZilla said:
not sure what GE and FAE are but i should probably get some.
Citric said:
Your signature is wrong on colonization temps!
GOOD JUDGMENT COMES FROM EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE COMES FROM BAD JUDGMENT
ROOM TEMP 70-75 IS BEST FOR COLONIZATION
Thank you mycochef

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Home-made, high-volume Pressure Cooker [Re: noobieshroomie]
    #11307793 -

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/10891050#10891050


--------------------

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Home-made, high-volume Pressure Cooker [Re: Herbal_Elixer]
    #11307797 -

:thumbup:

  -noobie-


--------------------
AMU

Best Thread Ever
CapZilla said:
not sure what GE and FAE are but i should probably get some.
Citric said:
Your signature is wrong on colonization temps!
GOOD JUDGMENT COMES FROM EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE COMES FROM BAD JUDGMENT
ROOM TEMP 70-75 IS BEST FOR COLONIZATION
Thank you mycochef

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Home-made, high-volume Pressure Cooker [Re: LeopardMan]
    #11308178 -

This makes me super happy... It's good to see people can still do this, and actually be self sufficient.


--------------------
:mushroom2:

:mushroom2:


I do not grow anything that is illegal... Everything is of the legal variety... if someone mentions any illegal activity it isn't me...

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Home-made, high-volume Pressure Cooker [Re: xbrutalx233]
    #11308266 -

You are a lucky man!

110qts?! With that much spawn one grow would have you and your neighbor set for life!!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |  [ show all ]

Shop: MagicBag.co All-In-One Bags That Don't Suck   Sporeworks.EU Spores for European Microscopy   Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds   North Spore Bulk Substrate   Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order   Mushroom-Hut Substrate Bags

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Mushroom Cultivation
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* water in pressure cooker? bawla47 1,526 11 10/05/04 11:28 PM
by mycoguy
* Pressure cooker / sterilizer comparison which one is right for you? MycoMonsters 5,373 11 07/02/05 09:07 AM
by NINJA
* All American Pressure Cookers
( 1 2 all )		 Anonymous 4,733 39 02/11/03 04:52 PM
by Anonymous
* campstove with a pressure cooker? estimatedprophet 980 8 02/01/05 12:24 AM
by metasin
* pressure cooker sizes valour 1,609 9 01/15/03 11:26 AM
by shroominbloom
* Pressure Cooker Go BOOM?
( 1 2 all )		 Skikid16 13,683 27 09/29/02 03:15 AM
by alienated
* Alternative to Pressure cooker
( 1 2 all )		 michotim002 4,379 20 12/06/04 11:38 AM
by benrules92
* Test if your pressure cooker is working!
( 1 2 all )		 AnnoA 6,801 24 05/19/10 11:37 AM
by Barakanaten

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Shroomism, george castanza, RogerRabbit, veggie, mushboy, fahtster, the_chosen_one, LogicaL Chaos, 13shrooms, hamloaf, cronicr, Stipe-n Cap, Pastywhyte, bodhisatta, Tormato, Land Trout, A.k.a
17,506 topic views. 21 members, 684 guests and 175 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2026 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.034 seconds spending 0.012 seconds on 17 queries.