![]() There's probably a way, but it's not immediately obvious. I could not generate enough pressure to get decent flow. Brought 'em home, trimmed the nozzle a bit so it would accommodate a stuffer tube, trimmed the bag and attached the nozzle per instructions, filled it half full of sausage mix, and attempted to fill casings. Bought a Wilton large size cake decorating bag and a large nozzle. #2 improvement: we were at an outlet mall, and I happened to wander into a cake decorating supply shop. We'll call it "the Russ-n-Ross Ram Rod," or something equally self-serving. If it works well, I'll cut a hole in a step stool, kinda like Ross did, so I can extrude downward. I'll probably downsize to a smaller pipe for the straight-side funnel portion which contains the meat, to cut the pressure requirement. I wound up putting casing on the stuffer tube, holding it upside down (pointing up), pressing downward on the whole thing to force meat into the casing. Quite a bit of force is needed, especially when eveything is straight out of the refrigerator and cold and viscous. I used some rubber self liner and some nylon windbreaker cloth for gasketing, and it works fine. As per his suggestion, everything is loose so it can be knocked apart for cleaning. #1 improvement is a piece of pvc pipe with a couple of reducers on the end (enlargers, actually) and a cap, which fits reasonably well in the 1-1/2" pipe section of Ross's pvc straight-side funnel. The idea: stuff casings with small amounts of sausage mix (what's left over from using my stuffer)(which is a significant amount) Well, it's been a while, but I've tried several "improvements" since that January 22 post. At any rate, Ross, I continue to believe that this contraption is a great idea, and thank you and Nancy for it. I really should learn how to shoot pictures with my phone and upload 'em. It may leak like a sieve around the stuffer tube, in which case I'll add a short piece of the appropriate diameter tubing to hold the stuffer tube tightly in place. I haven't tried this on sausage yet, I admit. I've found that with two different ones, I can support all three stuffer tube sizes. ![]() This way, too, I use, as the smallest piece, a union with a ridge in the middle that supports the tapered plastic stuffer tubes. I dry fit 'em together (well, smear a little pork fat on 'em so they'll come apart again, later), and can take 'em apart for cleaning. ![]() Then it dawned on me- why glue it together at all? I went back to the hardware store and bought more PVC parts. I tried to fill them in with my Official Mothra Steward Hot Melt Glue Gun, but the seams still aren't very smooth. I found that trace amounts of sausage meat were getting hung up in the grooves at the glued seams. ![]()
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