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55 gal drum sterilizer in garage??
    #14390498 - 05/02/11 06:46 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Here's the deal.  I have to build something that can sterilize / super-pasteurize sawdust blocks.  I live in a residential area and I don't think my neighbors would like to see/hear a big steaming, hissing oil drum in my back yard.

I would like to put something in my garage that is safe.  I don't want to run a burner that is going to consume all the oxygen in the garage and be a fire hazard.  Is there an electric solution?  I see a few options.

1.  Some sort of heating element inside or wrapped around drum
2.  A steam generator designed for saunas (overkill?)
3.  Wagner power steamer thing (insufficient?)

Maybe there is someone who has had to construct a similar setup who can offer some insight.


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Re: 55 gal drum sterilizer in garage?? [Re: Ferg]
    #14390561 - 05/02/11 06:59 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

erm.. i think its ozzy that has a 55 gallon electric pasteurizer tek in his signature... i could be mistaken though... find a post with him in it and u shall see.


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Re: 55 gal drum sterilizer in garage?? [Re: stranger_danger]
    #14390632 - 05/02/11 07:18 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

they work. top load works MUCH quicker. imho. make sure you cover it with a blanket or sleeping bag, real insulation etc. for insulation. And if you get the right type of top.. a regular garden hose end will screw right into one of the holes.  bonus round !


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Re: 55 gal drum sterilizer in garage?? [Re: ife]
    #14390667 - 05/02/11 07:23 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

wait a sec what is standard practice for sterilizing 55gal drums?


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Re: 55 gal drum sterilizer in garage?? [Re: shopdropper]
    #14391387 - 05/02/11 09:19 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

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shopdropper said:
wait a sec what is standard practice for sterilizing 55gal drums?




Here's mine.

I wouldn't put a gas fired unit like mine indoors in a garage.  You're also going to be spilling a lot of water, so hopefully you have a floor drain or a slope to the big door.
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Re: 55 gal drum sterilizer in garage?? [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #14392733 - 05/03/11 02:34 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Yeah I really want it to be electric.  Does anyone know if a steam generator is a reasonable solution?  I see they make models ranging from 4kw - 10kw.  They are several hundred dollars.  Couldn't one of these devices be connected to a drum or is that an expensive solution to a simple problem?


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Re: 55 gal drum sterilizer in garage?? [Re: Ferg]
    #14392804 - 05/03/11 03:21 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

fine, ill track down the link for you @_@

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/13768133

there... even though i told u how and where to find it... i guess ill spoon feed it to you :-P enjoy


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Re: 55 gal drum sterilizer in garage?? [Re: stranger_danger]
    #14393219 - 05/03/11 07:32 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

haha thanks and theres an electric one right under this thread  lol

yay spoon feeding! *num num num* 

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Re: 55 gal drum sterilizer in garage?? [Re: shopdropper]
    #14393285 - 05/03/11 07:49 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

those both are some really cool ideas!  i was thinking more along the lines of a 55gal Fermenter! lol how would one clean it good enough to do something like that? if inoculated at standard 10% it would only have to stay free of contams for 9 days.


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