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A new innovation in gas evaporators and gas finishers.

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Jim Smoky Lake maple products just want
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00:00:04.039 00:00:04.049 have been working on and actually for
00:00:06.400 00:00:06.410 most of a year now but it is finally
00:00:09.049 00:00:09.059 perfected and it's a very universal gas
00:00:12.560 00:00:12.570 nozzle for LP gas propane and also
00:00:16.849 00:00:16.859 natural gas I'm not going to show too
00:00:19.519 00:00:19.529 much of the details on the inside of the
00:00:21.349 00:00:21.359 nozzle but it is an air-cooled burner
00:00:25.609 00:00:25.619 that we were gonna use in all kinds of
00:00:27.380 00:00:27.390 boilers and evaporators finishers and
00:00:30.259 00:00:30.269 things like that it is about 50,000 BTUs
00:00:35.240 00:00:35.250 per nozzle so a whole lot of heat it's a
00:00:38.770 00:00:38.780 substantial amount of heat what we're
00:00:42.860 00:00:42.870 coming up with for the primary purpose
00:00:44.720 00:00:44.730 of this of this technology is a small
00:00:49.010 00:00:49.020 finishing evaporator or for us for a
00:00:51.200 00:00:51.210 hobbyist a very productive primary
00:00:54.049 00:00:54.059 evaporator I guess but a common
00:00:57.229 00:00:57.239 application of this type of system is
00:00:59.330 00:00:59.340 going to be for the midsize or bigger
00:01:02.840 00:01:02.850 producer that is using some kind of a
00:01:07.240 00:01:07.250 propane or LP natural gas fuel source to
00:01:11.719 00:01:11.729 bring your syrup back up the temperature
00:01:13.520 00:01:13.530 before the filter press for bottling a
00:01:16.100 00:01:16.110 lot of people will also actually finish
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00:01:20.780 00:01:20.790 syrup off their primary evaporator under
00:01:23.600 00:01:23.610 density and then boil it to proper
00:01:27.020 00:01:27.030 density I can get into why I don't like
00:01:29.600 00:01:29.610 doing that I draw syrup off off the
00:01:32.240 00:01:32.250 evaporator perfectly done or slightly
00:01:34.429 00:01:34.439 over dense I don't like to reboil
00:01:36.410 00:01:36.420 but that's a very common practice to use
00:01:39.350 00:01:39.360 a secondary evaporator to final tune it
00:01:44.359 00:01:44.369 the density of the syrup toward a
00:01:48.760 00:01:48.770 gas-fired finisher will be the type of
00:01:51.999 00:01:52.009 burner system that uses the big hones
00:01:55.600 00:01:55.610 air mixers and then a series of drilled
00:01:59.420 00:01:59.430 my tubes so it shoots up little tiny
00:02:02.920 00:02:02.930 inefficient orange flames that cover the
00:02:06.170 00:02:06.180 bottom of your pan with carbon that's
00:02:07.550 00:02:07.560 the disadvantage of those old systems
00:02:09.169 00:02:09.179 they're very inefficient they're slow
00:02:11.510 00:02:11.520 there's not a lot of heat there
00:02:13.340 00:02:13.350 and it it creates all kinds of carbon
00:02:15.590 00:02:15.600 buildup on the bottom of your pans so I
00:02:17.600 00:02:17.610 knew we can do better than that when we
00:02:19.670 00:02:19.680 had demands from from producers that
00:02:21.800 00:02:21.810 needed a gas-fired finisher or reheater
00:02:24.380 00:02:24.390 system I knew I wasn't going to do what
00:02:26.900 00:02:26.910 everyone else has been doing for years
00:02:28.910 00:02:28.920 we never do that Oliver all of our
00:02:30.710 00:02:30.720 products that we build our better in
00:02:33.320 00:02:33.330 some way or another otherwise we just
00:02:34.970 00:02:34.980 wouldn't do it
00:02:39.070 00:02:39.080 but this is the smallest of the of the
00:02:43.820 00:02:43.830 units that we're probably going to build
00:02:45.860 00:02:45.870 this happens to be a 16 inch by 30 inch
00:02:48.380 00:02:48.390 pan on here
00:02:49.520 00:02:49.530 so again for a small hobby producer
00:02:52.420 00:02:52.430 fantastic way of of evaporating or for
00:02:56.660 00:02:56.670 the smaller or mid-sized commercial
00:03:00.140 00:03:00.150 producer great way of warming your syrup
00:03:02.300 00:03:02.310 up
00:03:03.410 00:03:03.420 we brought just regular well water it
00:03:06.560 00:03:06.570 was about 45 degrees coming out of the
00:03:08.390 00:03:08.400 tap I brought that about 8 gallons of 45
00:03:12.260 00:03:12.270 degree water to a boil an all-out boil
00:03:14.630 00:03:14.640 in about 6 and a half minutes so you can
00:03:18.350 00:03:18.360 see now it's been sitting and our
00:03:20.390 00:03:20.400 temperature has dropped to 150 degrees
00:03:22.310 00:03:22.320 Fahrenheit but I'm going to fire up the
00:03:24.460 00:03:24.470 the burners just to show you how
00:03:27.380 00:03:27.390 effective they are and you're gonna see
00:03:30.980 00:03:30.990 on this particular unit I have a jump so
00:03:34.700 00:03:34.710 I could actually do some final testing
00:03:37.730 00:03:37.740 on the smaller unit we've done extensive
00:03:39.050 00:03:39.060 testing on the on a bigger one a 2 foot
00:03:41.060 00:03:41.070 by 4 foot and nailed it it's perfect it
00:03:44.150 00:03:44.160 got shipped out it's no longer in our
00:03:45.620 00:03:45.630 showroom but I did some testing on a
00:03:50.360 00:03:50.370 smaller unit like this so I made it so
00:03:52.340 00:03:52.350 that I could adjust the attack angle of
00:03:56.390 00:03:56.400 the burners okay and also the the insert
00:04:00.890 00:04:00.900 depth of the burners and so the the
00:04:04.540 00:04:04.550 production units probably won't have
00:04:06.860 00:04:06.870 nearly as much adjustability but for me
00:04:09.530 00:04:09.540 it was important us on this first
00:04:11.690 00:04:11.700 smaller unit just to make sure that I
00:04:14.090 00:04:14.100 could make it perfect in the in the
00:04:16.010 00:04:16.020 future so the beauty of it is even when
00:04:20.599 00:04:20.609 you do run a small flame in here let's
00:04:22.310 00:04:22.320 just say you get your syrup up to
00:04:23.870 00:04:23.880 temperature you're using this as a
00:04:25.250 00:04:25.260 finisher
00:04:26.490 00:04:26.500 and you get it up to 190 degrees maybe
00:04:29.310 00:04:29.320 that's all the higher you want to go you
00:04:31.260 00:04:31.270 can throttle the flame back there's no
00:04:34.680 00:04:34.690 other torch burner like this available
00:04:38.040 00:04:38.050 in the market surprisingly I would think
00:04:41.580 00:04:41.590 there'd be a lot of application for this
00:04:43.020 00:04:43.030 but we had to we had to kind of develop
00:04:45.090 00:04:45.100 it and invented ourselves the like a
00:04:49.440 00:04:49.450 blowtorch anyone that's used a blowtorch
00:04:51.300 00:04:51.310 extensively for soldering or whatever if
00:04:53.460 00:04:53.470 you run a slow flame inside your torch
00:04:55.950 00:04:55.960 you'll actually heat up your your nozzle
00:05:00.600 00:05:00.610 on the torch because that flame is
00:05:02.610 00:05:02.620 inside the tube and it'll actually start
00:05:05.490 00:05:05.500 to wreck the internal mixers inside the
00:05:08.310 00:05:08.320 nozzle we actually have an air cooler on
00:05:12.000 00:05:12.010 here so you'll see I ran a little flame
00:05:16.350 00:05:16.360 then I get very hot which is what you
00:05:18.810 00:05:18.820 would expect but the air cooler kept
00:05:21.720 00:05:21.730 your your main mixer from getting hot at
00:05:25.140 00:05:25.150 all it did and at all I'll show you
00:05:28.380 00:05:28.390 after we run a flame on it
00:05:30.030 00:05:30.040 that you can stick this part right here
00:05:33.150 00:05:33.160 keeping flame any nozzle should be
00:05:36.360 00:05:36.370 designed so that the flame is completely
00:05:38.400 00:05:38.410 outside of it it should never really get
00:05:40.110 00:05:40.120 very hot so I'm just going to start this
00:05:42.630 00:05:42.640 up now
00:05:50.930 00:05:50.940 so we have a pretty long there the
00:05:53.640 00:05:53.650 reason I shot with this video without
00:05:56.150 00:05:56.160 because get pretty long they run full
00:05:58.860 00:05:58.870 flame it's gonna be a little bit too
00:06:00.420 00:06:00.430 loud so I'm gonna crank it up and I will
00:06:03.450 00:06:03.460 actually slide this out just to show you
00:06:05.480 00:06:05.490 how how much energy is being created
00:06:09.150 00:06:09.160 with this
00:06:47.200 00:06:47.210 I'm gonna pull the just so we can
00:06:52.189 00:06:52.199 actually see the the flames we can
00:07:18.080 00:07:18.090 the flames his long which I actually
00:07:22.620 00:07:22.630 showed in a different video of a while
00:07:26.880 00:07:26.890 back a very short video when I first got
00:07:29.640 00:07:29.650 some of our production nozzles complete
00:07:41.920 00:07:41.930 so now we've a little bit I am right
00:07:46.930 00:07:46.940 here's a very little flame right now a
00:07:48.340 00:07:48.350 lot flame is inside this nozzle and you
00:07:50.950 00:07:50.960 can see there's disco occurring here on
00:07:52.960 00:07:52.970 the on the tips which I I can't even
00:07:55.540 00:07:55.550 touch right now not for any a period of
00:07:59.800 00:07:59.810 time instead I can stay sir so the
00:08:06.460 00:08:06.470 internal tool is it is properly cooling
00:09:23.910 00:09:23.920 turn it down just so I can talk more but
00:09:28.770 00:09:28.780 maybe it was that 160 when we first
00:09:31.300 00:09:31.310 showed right now we don't have you can
00:09:38.260 00:09:38.270 see we have a cupola right but they in
00:09:41.350 00:09:41.360 Wisconsin we don't have it all escaping
00:09:44.380 00:09:44.390 this unit that's why we have a lid on it
00:09:45.880 00:09:45.890 for now but that short period of time
00:09:50.950 00:09:50.960 even though we have full fire we've done
00:09:57.190 00:09:57.200 with this what we've mastered in even
00:10:00.700 00:10:00.710 what's the pan sound we have a heat
00:10:04.090 00:10:04.100 source on one end on the other end
00:10:06.550 00:10:06.560 pulling the edge of this you have a
00:10:11.140 00:10:11.150 chimney connection whether you want to
00:10:12.550 00:10:12.560 connect it to a chimney and fumes all of
00:10:15.760 00:10:15.770 your building that's it it is so but the
00:10:20.410 00:10:20.420 chimney is two feet
00:11:25.329 00:11:25.339 so that's kind of an all of what's
00:11:28.879 00:11:28.889 coming here these units are going to be
00:11:30.259 00:11:30.269 mass-produced here once we introduce
00:11:32.480 00:11:32.490 them to the market everything about is
00:11:35.869 00:11:35.879 but we've seen before with tube style
00:11:38.119 00:11:38.129 burners everything about it the fuel
00:11:40.009 00:11:40.019 efficiency the cleanliness our ability
00:11:43.549 00:11:43.559 to hook up a chimney to it our control
00:11:47.559 00:11:47.569 it's all it's all coming in at a lower
00:11:51.710 00:11:51.720 cost those two burners with the with the
00:11:54.109 00:11:54.119 big huge green mixers on each tube very
00:11:57.949 00:11:57.959 very expensive very expensive to build
00:11:59.749 00:11:59.759 expensive to buy when we run these off
00:12:03.139 00:12:03.149 the lathe we can build them pretty darn
00:12:05.119 00:12:05.129 efficiently the internals are not very
00:12:06.739 00:12:06.749 complicated so we're going to come in at
00:12:09.019 00:12:09.029 a at a price significantly lower than
00:12:10.730 00:12:10.740 what you've been seeing from our
00:12:11.900 00:12:11.910 competitors on those old tube burner
00:12:13.400 00:12:13.410 systems so that's just what we've been
00:12:17.569 00:12:17.579 doing among other things here this is
00:12:19.759 00:12:19.769 another big innovation that we're really
00:12:21.169 00:12:21.179 really excited about that's it

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