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Pro tip: my grinder's $40 auger pin snapped mid-batch and I finished 60 lbs of sausage with a wooden dowel
Last Saturday I was running 60 lbs of breakfast sausage for a diner order when the auger pin on my old Hobart grinder snapped clean in half. I heard a pop, the auger stopped spinning, and I just stood there with 40 lbs still sitting in the tub at 38 degrees. I drove to two hardware stores in Spokane looking for a replacement pin and neither one had the right size, so I cut a hardwood dowel down to fit as a temp fix. It held for the last 20 lbs but I had to run the feed slow and check it every few minutes because the dowel kept wanting to walk out. Got the order out on time, but I ordered three spare pins that night and now they live in the drawer under the grinder. What's your emergency fix for a machine that quits in the middle of a big run?
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