STAINLESS STEEL BARRELS FOR ELECTRO USE

[C. Perry Rapier]

I have some 55 gallon SS barrels for sale and they make excellent electro cleaning systems. Greg Stahl has one of these setups and is very satisfied with it as it works very fine. I put a post on the for sale column telling about them. If you want to know more about them you can either go there and read what I have written or you can IM me and I will get back with you. Thank you.

[C. Perry Rapier]

Greg Stahl, get on here and give me a testamonial of how good these barrels work.

I only got a few and when they are all gone and people start coming on here and saying how good they work, people is gonna be kickin themselves in the grass for not getting one.

[Thomas_Callaway]

Perry,

Strap one o' dem to yore most trustworthy peasant and send him down the road. I'll send payment on his return trip.

TC

[C. Perry Rapier]

Perry,

Strap one o' dem to yore most trustworthy peasant and send him down the road. I'll send payment on his return trip.

TC

If you have to keep one of them, keep the peasant, I can get plenty of them, no more barrels to be had. How will you swap peasants to barrels?

[Thomas_Callaway]

If you have to keep one of them, keep the peasant, I can get plenty of them, no more barrels to be had. How will you swap peasants to barrels?

Well sir... you have me there.

Axshuwally, you know I wuz pullin' yo' leg. I shoulda knowed you wouldn't take the bait. As you also know I don't need yo' barrel. I have THE MIGHTY ELECTROFRANKEN COOKERATOR and she shall be fired up in the AM. Keep an eye on your peasants lest they head South like a Canadian cold front when the thunderous roar is heard way up there.

TC

TC

[C. Perry Rapier]

T.C. I know'd you was fixed for electro.

Also, thanks for tellin me about you're gonna fire up the mighty cookerator in the mornin. That means shackles for all my peasants tonight. No longer will then be drawn away by you and the amazing cookerator. I still ain't got them all back from the last time you fired that bad boy up when they were drawn away to your machine as a fool is to a fire. The ones I did get back ain't much punkin, come home all starry eyed, wanting to talk about nuthin but that old machine. Yep, the firin up of the mighty cookerator has a calling like no other. Well take care and write if you find work.  

[Greg Stahl]

Love the SS barrel way to clean via the electrobath way.   These are HUGE and you can hang 12 or more items at once to clean.  I've had mine for over one year, not a single bad thing to say only good.  I need to get a pix up, but as you all know,

[size=36]THE KITCHEN REMODEL BEGAN TODAY[/size]

[Scott Sanders]

I would love to see some pictures of this type of setup.  If the barrel itself is used an one anode (positive I would assume) does it have to be insulated or isolated to keep it from going to ground??
How is this accomplished??  With a positive charge on it , one would not want to be standing barefoot on concrete or the earth and grab onto the barrel.  Sort of like the electric fence trick as was discussed elsewhere.  I was thinking of using a stainless commercial sink (if I can find a cheap used one) in the same way the barrel is being used.  Please post some pictures or descriptions of this type of system.  I would also like to see some pictures of this electrofranken cookerator if at all possible.  How far will peasants travel to get to this thing??

Thanks to all for any info,     Scott

[Al Andrews]

Greg, hope you are taking photos of the remodel to keep us up to date?  Have been there, and done that!  The photos are great afterwards!!!  Like the dacor cooktop you picked -- we are replacing our 15 year old dacor with one simular to what you picked.

Al

[C. Perry Rapier]

I had 30 barrels yesterday, as of right now I got nine left.

Scott, to address your questions. In my opinion there is no problem with sitting this on a cement floor and letting it go. However, if there was water or something like that, I can see where some concern would be in order. However, to fix that there are different things you can do. Greg just cut off the top of a plastic barrel and then took the bottom half and set the SS barrel in the bottom half of the plastic tub, put the water in and let'er rip. If you wanted to you could use the whole plastic barrel with just enough sticking up to put your positive connection.

Then you can use steel rods laying across the top and the pieces to be cleaned, hanging down from the steel rods in whatever way you wanted to make it work. On the steel rods, take a piece of garden hose and slip it over the rod, leaving a place in the middle where your piece will hang down, and then leave a piece bare on the end, so to have your negative connection. And you're good ot go. The beauty of this is that the entire piece to be cleaned is getting cleaned from every angle.

When you use a plastic barrel with a piece of cast iron in it and a piece of SS (anode) or whatever you prefer to use as an anode, the problem is, you can only clean one area at a time because the piece to be cleaned has to be facing the anode. With the barrel, the piece to be cleaned is facing the anode on all sides from every direction, you could argue its not getting it at the top, but that little part is so small and in reality it cleans there too because you got the juice going there too. Anyway, thats my take on it and these barrels are the hot tip.

[gt]

I would love to see some pictures of this type of setup.  

Scott,  This is not a very good picture of this kind of setup but it will you an idea of the simplicity.  I have since replace the ugly 2x4 with a 1" wooden dowel that slides through the top C-clamp.

[Greg Stahl]

I would love to see some pictures of this type of setup.  

Scott,  This is not a very good picture of this kind of setup but it will you an idea of the simplicity.  I have since replace the ugly 2x4 with a 1" wooden doll that slides through the top C-clamp.

Gary, that set up looks just like mine complete down to the wood and C-clamps!!

[gt]

Greg,  Yes I remember seeing a picture of yours once but you didn't leave it up very long.

[gt]

Here's a picture with the dowel rod.

[C. Perry Rapier]

If you use the piece of metal like I was talking about and insulate it with the garden hose you can make the black connection at the end of the metal rod and the black connector will not be over the water, nor in the middle making a cluster to work around, just my ideas.

[Greg Stahl]

Greg,  Yes I remember seeing a picture of yours once but you didn't leave it up very long.

I believe that was when we had the old version of the forum and we lost the attachments.  let me see if I can find it.

[moosejaw]

I would assume you have to be extremely careful that the cast iron piece you are cleaning does not touch the sides of the barrel......as this would short out the battery charger.  I wonder if it would be prudent to line the barrel with some type of plastic netting to prevent such as disaster from occurring.

[C. Perry Rapier]

I would assume you have to be extremely careful that the cast iron piece you are cleaning does not touch the sides of the barrel......as this would short out the battery charger.  I wonder if it would be prudent to line the barrel with some type of plastic netting to prevent such as disaster from occurring.

Marty, you'll have plenty of room in the barrel, plenty. And if you got it secure at the top, it'd take an earthquake to move it, and when the barrel is full of water it weighs near 500 lbs. so nobody is gonna bump it and knock it over. The only thing I might recommend is to put the barrel in a plastic half barrel Greg Stahl container.

[Paul Hummel]

I am looking to do an electro set up!  I was looking at that keg set up and read about putting a hose on a steel rod with hose insulator.  What if you put a steel rod that fits a piece of pvc pipe with opening in middle to hook up the cast iron and be able to hook up neg. to end as not to be so close to the keg might be safer. Same as hose idea.  Just to put another idea up for thought.

[C. Perry Rapier]

I am looking to do an electro set up!  I was looking at that keg set up and read about putting a hose on a steel rod with hose insulator.  What if you put a steel rod that fits a piece of pvc pipe with opening in middle to hook up the cast iron and be able to hook up neg. to end as not to be so close to the keg might be safer. Same as hose idea.  Just to put another idea up for thought.

We're essentially saying the same thing. The reason I said the hose is because when you stretch the hose on, it ain't going nowhere, the rod, on the other hand, is just going to lay in the pvc pipe and so if you were to bump it, the rod could slide out of the pvc, unless you used a small pvc and forced in around the rod, which would be a lot of work, as compared to the hose idea.