[Syrupmakers] Goldens' New Model #27 help needed & Fire Bowl???

Mon Jan 28 11:37:07 PST 2008

Hey Dennis,
Can send me some pictures of the guards your talking about. I would like to  
see how hard they would be to cast and what type of casting would work for  
these. 

thanks,
J.T.

In a message dated 1/28/2008 7:34:17 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
cottonfam at windstream.net writes:

Make that all 3, both  the ones in the “transmission” and the one over the 
gears for the rollers..  The only bad part of the mill is the knife as it has 
been broken and rewelded  but not very well.. 
Dennis  Cotton 

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From:  syrupmakers-bounces at syrupmakers.net  
[mailto:syrupmakers-bounces at syrupmakers.net] On Behalf Of Richard Harrison
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 5:41  AM
To:  syrupmakers at syrupmakers.net
Subject: Re: [Syrupmakers] Goldens' New  Model #27 help needed & Fire Bowl???

Floyd,

Nice report. I have cooked small batches  of syrup on the stove for years. 
Like you say it is good for experimenting  with different canes, etc. You don't 
"mess up" a whole kettle of syrup that  way.

Now, I hate to be the bearer of bad news,  but.....you and MANY more people 
are looking for the end gear guard for a  Goldens' 27 (the 36 also). They seem 
to be few and far between. I think many  of them were removed to grease the 
gear teeth and NEVER put back on and were  probably sold for scrap. It may be 
possible that some got broken--but even  then they could have been welded back. 
I know 1 man that would pay "a pretty  penny" to get an end guard for a 36 !  
He has wanted to find 1 in good  shape and pay a deposit for it and ship it to 
a foundry(Amish, probably) just  to have it duplicated and then give back the 
original to the owner. Last I  knew, he hadn't found 1.

Richard

Floyd, what varieties of sugarcane do you grow  ?

Floyd  Boyett <floydandbobee at copper.net>  wrote:

David,

I did not find a source for  parts on the Golden #27.  The feed gear and the 
discharge gear are the  same part # and it was my discharge gear that was 
badly worn and 3/4's of  one tooth was broken out.  I the broken tooth repaired 
and then put  that gear on the feed side roller.  (The feed side roller has much 
less  pressure on it compared to the discharge roller.)  I milled about 200  
gals. of juice with it this year and it did just fine.  I do want to  use my 
good gear to have a new one made before this coming season.   

I just read TJ's post and if he  gets his casting operation going perhaps he 
will be able to help us.  I  am also missing the roller gears cover.  This is 
the clover shaped  cover for the outside of the three roller gears.  It is a 
safety cover  and I sure would like to have that also.

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Now, on to another  subject:                              Fire Bowl ??? Syrup 
 Dish

Today there was an  "Academy Sports  & Outdoors" ad in our paper.  They are  
having a close-out on some of the winter type things and they have the  
"Monarch Fire  Bowl" on sale.  I have seen these things  before but today it downed 
on me that this  thing looks just like a syrup dish!  I  rushed down to the 
store and checked it out.  The dish gauge is fairly  thin but I think it will 
hold up to making syrup.  (It is made to  have a fire in the dish so why not 
under it?)  The dish will  hold 5 gals.of juice before getting onto the rim.  I 
see no reason  why we can not put fire under it and use these things to make 
small baches  of syrup!!  They come with a stainless steel bowl (reg. $59.99 - 
sale -  $39.99) or a copper bowl ( reg. $89.99 - sale - $69.99).  We would be  
looking at about 1/2 to 3/4 gal. of syrup per cooking and with such a wide  
surface area I think the cooking time would be fast.  We would still  have a 
couple of inches of syrup in the bottom when it's done and you can  just pick the 
dish up off of the stand and set it on the ground or a table  to stop the 
cooking process.  (The dish does have a small  flat area at the base.)  

I can see that these things  could be used for testing cane mixes or cooking 
metheds without taking a  chance on messing up a large amount of syrup.  Not 
only that, we could  let the kids make their own syrup on syrup making  day!

Just thought I would pass this  on to the list.  Perhaps someone else has 
thought of this before and I  just missed it.  If so, never mind  as they used to 
say on Saturday Night  Live.

PS - We have a Dutch  Oven cooking club and we cook outdoors at our farm each 
month.  I  bought two of this fire bowls.  I am going to try my hand at candy 
 making with the copper one!  The stainless steel one also looks just  right 
for boilling sweet corn!''  They even come with a cover screen  that will keep 
the leaves and honey bees  out.

Have  fun,

Floyd  Boyett

Lumberton,  Texas 
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