Don't know how many of you use your woman's oven on a regular basis for heating parts, drying paint, huffing grease fumes, etc but here's a funny story for you. I work close to a Subway sandwich shop. Last week I noticed they had one of those giant bread ovens out back. So I stopped in to get a sandwich and asked them about it. All the Subways are getting new ovens right now. When I asked what they were doing with the old one they said "just waiting for someone to haul it to the dump". What a coincidence . . . I have a dump in my garage! I loaded it up and took it home. This thing is about 6 feet tall and has 2 ovens in it. The lower is a low temp setup used for rising bread (only goes to 125*) and the upper is the baker, with 4 shelves . . . each adustable up to 450*. It works great. I'll use the upper half for heating parts to back grease and junk off, fit stuff with close tolerances, etc. The lower half would be great for speed drying painted items in the cold winter months here. Best of all it was free and it's all stainless so even if it dies I can make some $$ on it at the recyclers. So just a heads up, you might keep an eye out for these things sitting in back alleys behind Subway.

 

Cool

However, the question I have is:
Does your woman get to use your oven now?

 

Dang, I think I'll head over there for lunch!

 

That lower oven sounds like a good place to dry welding rod??? 125 may not be enough tho, somebody here will know. There is a Subway a few blocks from me...

 

I know where Eric went for lunch today.

I told Kath that I could cook 4 pizzas at a time now but she wasn't too impressed. Oh well, I'll install the kegerator in my fridge soon here, I've got an oven and a microwave. If she kicks me out of the house I can blow up the camp mattress and I'll be good to go.

I'd been thinking about just buying a used old oven for the garage but this is so much bigger I couldn't resist. I would say the only downside is that the shelves in the upper oven can't be removed unless you want to do some handy work with a sawzall so you are limited on the size of junk you can put in there but I can fit heads on them, crank, pretty much anything I'll need to back short of a bare block.

 

That would work perfect, at 125 degrees just leave them in there for a couple of hours or so, and you should be good to go, I use a regular oven (my wife's, lol) to do mine. At 200 degrees they get dry enough to snack on in about 30-45 minutes... Now, to head to Subway.

Max

 

At 450 you can do powder coating too.

 

I might have to run over there. But what will I do with the Avacado Wonder???? It has followed us thru three houses, and a year-and-half storage.

 

Heck, I want a sandwich next time I come visit, Ivan.

 

The sandwich will taste like the degreaser he used on the parts....before he baked them...probably will give you a bad case of gaseous indigestion!

 

Might be a good idea for me to ride out to the local subway. Probably too late but worth a check. Thanks for the heads up Ivan.

 

If you turn on your oven the same time Subway turns on their new one, the whole city will probably go dim. Good Luck!

 

just wondering, are they electric or gas? The local subway's around here aren't changing theirs out.. must be more of a local thing. Probably all the same owner, rather than the same chain.

 

They're electric Fellro. 220/110. I think the 110 runs the lights and perhaps the proofing oven.

If your local Subway isn't planning to get rid of them any time soon just tell them you found a finger in your sandwich.

 

maybe tell them a I found a sandwich in my fingers and see if their paying attention....