Forgive my delay in responding but I have been burning the torch at both ends, so to speak.
OK, here is the update. I sent the unit back to him and he had it back to me the following week, repaired and operational. I started doing 4-5 lb roast and depending on the what’s, they took between 17 - 26 minutes. What I got in those roasts was nothing short of FIRST CLASS.
I came home after a long day at work and decided (wrongly) to try my first 10 lb roast. I put in what I thought was a 10lb bag, which I will say after my first bean fire, was 13 lbs. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Yes, that took a long time and the over load and a few other factors made it take near 40 min to get a Spanish, Italian roast. The funny thing was that even with the fire, I ended up with beans that I could sell. I found that people who like starebucks just think that burnt is best, aint that a laugh. As I watched the temp reading on my probe, move slowly up, opened the door to have a closer look ( it was already dark out, night time, roasting outside) The temp was 405 and man this batch was active. The moment I opened the door, lots of smoke and wooooosssshshhhhh FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE in the house, lol. I was calm and took my water hose and lightly hit the beans. The fire went right out. I removed the drum, I use oven glove and put them right into the cooling pan and put the fan on. Seriously, I thought I made a lot of trash but, in the end, they were fine. Much to dark for my taste but fine for others. I lost about 25% so, all in all, a happy ending.
Now, I thought that I would have done damage to the unit, but much to my surprise, nothing was wrong. I will continue with more after I do about 50lbs on Sunday.
