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07-14-2005, 02:26 AM
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Originally Posted by JM Along the steaming oil idea, though that sounds a bit dangerous (think medievil times with boiling oil) to me, I was thinking you could aerosolize it and spray a light sheen on the chips and let them air dry. If you used as little as possible, it could be perfect.
Say you lay out a few hundred on a table covered with newspaper and spray them all and let them sit an suck it up for a day or so. Flip them all and repeat. You'd still need to do the edges, but doing the edges by hand is a piece of cake. Just grab a stack of 20 or so at a time and an oiled towel and oil up the entire cylinder in a couple of seconds.
The trick is getting a nice fine & light spray. Heating oil is aerosolized into a very fine spray as its injected into your burner to heat the house. As I remember, the nozzles they use are on the order of microns in size (gotta go down to the basement to check this) which would be hard to duplicate in some hand held device. Maybe reusing something like a hairspray pump bottle would work. I smell a new project for this weekend! Still got 200 to do  | Something like this perhaps? http://shopping.msn.com/eshopframe.a...SKU%253D121302
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07-14-2005, 01:14 PM
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| | Oooh, that looks like the perfect chip oiler! And in cool stainless too. Too bad the cheapest shipping method costs $8 
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07-20-2005, 05:29 AM
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| | dual purpose. use it on your hair & chips. convince the wife.
not that i want to grease my head. 
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07-20-2005, 12:46 PM
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| | | A few years ago, at a very hot county fair, I bought one of those "personal air conditioner" thingies. It was a little canister that you filled with water, then pressurized (it had a little pump, I think). Then it had a little hose and valve and a nozzle on the end. The trick was that the nozzle atomized the water into an extremely fine mist. So you'd spray this mist of water on yourself, and the evaporation would cool you down. (Works great in dry climates.) The mist was so fine that you wouldn't get wet, just cool.
Unfortunately, just last month I was cleaning the garage and this gizmo (which had been collecting dust for 10 years) found it's way into a box of stuff being donated.
Maybe I can go buy it back and give it a try for oiling chips.
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07-20-2005, 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by CaptLego A few years ago, at a very hot county fair, I bought one of those "personal air conditioner" thingies. It was a little canister that you filled with water, then pressurized (it had a little pump, I think). Then it had a little hose and valve and a nozzle on the end. The trick was that the nozzle atomized the water into an extremely fine mist. So you'd spray this mist of water on yourself, and the evaporation would cool you down. (Works great in dry climates.) The mist was so fine that you wouldn't get wet, just cool.
Unfortunately, just last month I was cleaning the garage and this gizmo (which had been collecting dust for 10 years) found it's way into a box of stuff being donated.
Maybe I can go buy it back and give it a try for oiling chips. | Those are called a Misty Mate. My friend got one from CostCo I beleive. Here are some from EBay: http://search.ebay.com/Misty-Mate_W0...fsooZ1QQfsopZ3 |
07-20-2005, 05:30 PM
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| | | Yeah, I haven't found the food oiler locally yet, but maybe I'll look for that pressurized thing. Maybe one of those old pesticide sprayers you used to have for the garden would work? You know the big cannister that has a pump handle on the top and holds about 3-4 gallons of poison (or oil). I could do 1000 chips in about 5 seconds with that sucker!
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| | | If you are going to spray the oil, what's wrong with a regular 1 dollar nozzle spray bottle? |
07-20-2005, 05:39 PM
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| | | I just wanted it as fine and even as possible to limit the amount on the chip. Trying to find the perfect amount that would require the least amount of hand drying.
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| | | OK, spend 5 bucks instead for the top of the line nozzle spray bottle. |
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Originally Posted by Dwight87 OK, spend 5 bucks instead for the top of the line nozzle spray bottle. | Thanks! I'll give that a try.
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