Sausage Buddy. (homemade sausage press)

[iowaerik]

This is a sausage press I built from miscellaneous PVC. Fittings at my local home center. The OD of 3" fittungs fit perfectly inside 4" pipe. I used a rubber cap to use as a ram inside a 12" section of 4" pipe. I capped the back end with a cleanout ca9 with a air nozzle fitted to the end. On the discharge end I used a 4" to 1 1/2" reducer. I have two attachments . One is a. 1 1/2 drain fitting used for summer sausage. The other is 3/4" pipe for snack sticks. I used set screws to hold the discharge end together, for ease of cleanimg. The whole thing was built for under $20. A LEM press was $200ish.

[iowaerik]

Feed end.

[iowaerik]

Push ram. 3" rubber cap.

[iowaerik]

End adapters

[iowaerik]

Chamber holds approximately 4 lbs. Id. Recommend a 16" pipe.

[cam]

That's pretty cool man!

[Deleted]

Karma for thinking outside of the box, and taking the time to post that up ;D That is a slick idea

[iowaerik]

Just made 5 lbs summer sausage. 80/20 pork renderings 2lbs beaver. 2lbs whitetail venison. It needs to cure overnight. It hits the oven in the morning.

[walleyehunter]

look great.definitely will be making one of these.

[iowaerik]

I this thing works great.

Do take care when using. You can really build pressure inthis sucker. I've had the end of it blow off when I first used it. I'd say 20lbs air pressure is about all you need. You have to remember at 20 lbs in a 4" pipe is like something like 11" of surface inside. That creates like 200 lbs pressure.
I was using the snack stick tip, and was really pumping out the meat. The end of that sucker popped off, and bounced around the kitchen.. While cleaning up I noticed that it had chipped a hole in the ceramic tile. Yikes... Since then I've dialled back the air pressure.
Come to think of it 20 might be to much.
Maybe start at 10 psi. You can always go up. Thats easier than cleaning up or a trip to the ER.

[Ipostbulls**t]

That's awesome! I'll be looking into building one just now finished up my smoker project getting ready to start making sausage soon.