New addition to my worm equipment

[Jay Blair]

Three years ago my in wall oven went south when the electronic brain board died. Since it was over 20 years old, I had two options. One was to buy a new in wall unit for $600 to $1100 or purchase the tabletop oven shown below with the same inside dimensions as the in wall unit.

Being single and having a metal butchers bench in my kitchen I opted for the less expensive tabletop oven from walmart.com as it also has convection oven and rottiserie features in addition to costing 1/10th the price of a replacement in wall unit.




Last month during cleaning my oven, I broke one of the four heating elements.

Instead of trying to find a replacement element, I instead ordered a new oven for $80 and removed the other lower element from my first tabletop oven to keep as a spare for my new one and now have the old unit without lower bake elements in my worm bin room.

I can use the convection setting to dry castings or the broil setting and low temps to migration separate worms.

I am now working on designing a small volume screen cannister to mount on the rotiserrie to use as a slow tumple casting sifter and worm separator also.

Wish I had thought of this before my tabletop oven element broke. At $80, I would have considered the oven as a reasonable investment based on my small local market and personal vermicompost process convienence.

[austinpcherry]

I wish I had your vision for how things can be altered. Or the mechanical know-how to do it. So keep posting things like this so people like me can piggyback some of your ideas.

[Jay Blair]

Austin,

Welcome to the site here. Hope you find our conversations here useful.


There is a wide spectrum of worm raising and applications from home composters to small bait raisers and truck patch farmers to the large scale megavolume worm farms offering $20k "start up kits and educational support".

No matter what sector of worm raising/ compost making a grower chooses to enter the best teacher in my opinion is the worm that provides the mechanics that we growers harness.

I raise worms and produce castings for my small scale requirements using salvaged items and try to share the views and potentials I see.

Any questions or "will this work" scenarios you have feel free to post them here on board and we can toss it around.