The last batch of sticks i did i was so in a rush that i stripped a tooth of the crank gear of my stuffer. Called PS Sesonings they said my stuffer is under warranty and there are new gears on the way. YAY so happy.
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nepas
Rick, those look like metal gears? Are they? Mine are white nylon/plastic.
Hey Rick, I think you have a grizzly, is that right? I plan on purchasing these when my grizzly plastic gears give up. They are from an LEM 5lb vertical. I am not sure they will fit yet but I am willing to bet they will. Anybody try this yet?
http://www.lemproducts.com/product/1470/Vertical_Stuffer_Parts
SIA
Quote from: pensrock on October 12, 2009, 10:40:40 AM
Rick, those look like metal gears? Are they? Mine are white nylon/plastic.
Greg
They almost look and feel like some sort of composite.
Hey Rick, I think you have a grizzly, is that right? I plan on purchasing these when my grizzly plastic gears give up. They are from an LEM 5lb vertical. I am not sure they will fit yet but I am willing to bet they will. Anybody try this yet?
http://www.lemproducts.com/product/1470/Vertical_Stuffer_Parts
SIA
Scott i think those will fit. I have a PS Seasoning 5lb stuffer but they are all the same just about. I had to unbolt the side braces from the bottom and then crank the shaft up. The middle gear has a metal threaded insert and the 2 gears just came right out. The metal gears from LEM should fit but they look like they are plated? I wouldnt want the plating to come off from the gears and into the meat? Maybe i am just looking at em wrong :D
nepas
I thought they were stainless steel gears but since you brought it up and I looked closer I'm not so sure....hmmmm
SIA
Nepas,
I have the LEM and the gears are plated.
I keep a ton of that food grade lube you told me to get on them and nothing has fallen off...yet.
Wouldn't just land on top of the piston thingie anyways?
Carolyn
Quote from: Caribou on October 12, 2009, 11:38:31 AM
Nepas,
I have the LEM and the gears are plated.
I keep a ton of that food grade lube you told me to get on them and nothing has fallen off...yet.
Wouldn't just land on top of the piston thingie anyways?
Carolyn
Yeah it would but small fragments.
nepas
Hi everyone I have been gone since may where there was no internet,t.v. so have been out of touch. I just ordered new plastic gears for my northern tool stuffer and they are only $7.50 but the shipping is $22.00. So can any tell me for sure that the L.E.M. metal gears will work on my stuffer. They look identical and almost as if they come from the same manufacturer just using different brand names. Thks Piker
Quote from: smokeitall on October 12, 2009, 11:36:15 AM
I thought they were stainless steel gears but since you brought it up and I looked closer I'm not so sure....hmmmm
SIA
Scott
Since I have put as much as I have through my Grizzly stuffer. I had to call to to find out. The kind folks at LEM said they did not know if these replacement gears would work on the Grizzly but they have a 30 day return policy.
The gears pictured are Zinc coated cast gears. If the zinc coating is like it is on my grinder. I don't think we would have to worry about pieces chipping off.
Thanks Chris, I think I'm going to order them when my gears start to go, which may not be too far off as I have big plans for this deer season. Well I guess I had the same plan last year also before bustin my ankle out in the woods :( That was sure an expensive deer season.
SIA
Got it all put back together. Looks like they will hold up better than the poly gears. Next time the metal or just have my kid spend some of his cash and get pops an electric motor stuffer ;D
nepas
Quote from: NePaSmoKer on October 13, 2009, 05:36:16 PM
Got it all put back together. Looks like they will hold up better than the poly gears. Next time the metal or just have my kid spend some of his cash and get pops an electric motor stuffer ;D
nepas
I'm liking plan B
Quote from: NePaSmoKer on October 13, 2009, 05:36:16 PM
Got it all put back together. Looks like they will hold up better than the poly gears. Next time the metal or just have my kid spend some of his cash and get pops an electric motor stuffer ;D
nepas
Funny you should mention that, I was looking at those new casings on the big C site and all the vertical stuffers are on sale
Yea, go ahead and get an electric suffer!
I got the motor last winter for my Cablelas 11 lb. Sure is nice for snack sticks. And on brats I just stuff the whole casing then cut to length (collagen casings). Much easier than twisting after each link as it comes off the tube--but doesn't look quite as nice. Taste buds don't seem to mind though . . .
get smokin
drano
Well i will let everyone know if the metal gears fit because i stripped 4 teeth off the new set doing the landjaeger today. I had like 1/4lb left to stuff.
nepas
Quote from: NePaSmoKer on October 19, 2009, 01:27:45 PM
Well i will let everyone know if the metal gears fit because i stripped 4 teeth off the new set doing the landjaeger today. I had like 1/4lb left to stuff.
nepas
I would send them back with a nastygram telling them that they stripped out the first time you used them. Maybe get your money back, or a new set
Quote from: Tenpoint5 on October 20, 2009, 06:35:47 AM
Quote from: NePaSmoKer on October 19, 2009, 01:27:45 PM
Well i will let everyone know if the metal gears fit because i stripped 4 teeth off the new set doing the landjaeger today. I had like 1/4lb left to stuff.
nepas
I would send them back with a nastygram telling them that they stripped out the first time you used them. Maybe get your money back, or a new set
I talked to them yesterday. They were a free set being still under warranty. They told me this set is free also but if it happens again they will charge me $39, heck for that price i will get the metal ones.
nepas
Nepas are they like a plastic material or metal, if they're like a plastic black material I think they're made of karbonite. Karbonite is stronger then the nylon ones but weaker then the metal ones. The stuffers with metal gears made in China are cast.
Yeah they are black and i already stripped 3 teeth of em.
nepas
They're not karbonite they're poly-carbon did some research on them. You have to baby them. I would start looking for metal because you put them stuffers through hell.
My son said when he gets home for some RnR from Iraq on the 1st he will go to Cabelas and get pops a motorized stuffer ;D
Gues i will have a 5lb stuffer for sale CHEAP :D :D
nepas
Good for you nepas. If anyone needs/deserves one, you sure do! Bet you can't wait to try it out. ;D
Quote from: NePaSmoKer on October 21, 2009, 06:46:21 PM
My son said when he gets home for some RnR from Iraq on the 1st he will go to Cabelas and get pops a motorized stuffer ;D
Gues i will have a 5lb stuffer for sale CHEAP :D :D
nepas
I'm waiting for mine to come in, any day now. I'm keeping the 5 lb. one though just for small batches or in case something goes wrong with the 20 lb. electric.
Tenpoint5
Have a 5# grizzley and like it, but would like to get spare metal gears. Did the LEM gears fit?
Thanks
Jim
Quote from: Yooper Jim on December 04, 2009, 09:02:33 PM
Tenpoint5
Have a 5# grizzley and like it, but would like to get spare metal gears. Did the LEM gears fit?
Thanks
Jim
Jim,
I am still running the same plastic gears that came with mine. Nepas got the new gears. I haven't heard any complaints on the second set as of yet but I'm sue he will be along to answer.
Quote from: Yooper Jim on December 04, 2009, 09:02:33 PM
Tenpoint5
Have a 5# grizzley and like it, but would like to get spare metal gears. Did the LEM gears fit?
Thanks
Jim
Jim
Yes the LEM gears will fit.
nepas
Thanks for the response. I did a search, but never really found the answer. Would hate to be sitting there with 15# of meat and broken gears.