Hi Keegan, Try these URL"s: http://www.alpharubicon.com/prepinfo/dehydratorstryder.htm http://www.ael.org/eric/voices/Voices3=act4.pdf http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/environment/alternative-energy/energy-re sources/homepower-magazine/archives/29/29p62.txt Hope this helps, Paul From: "Keegan Smith" <mrkeeg@hotmail.com> Sent: Saturday, 29 June, 2002 9:12 PM Subject: [CH] dehydrators > Hi all, > Question: I think I've read of a home-made dehydrator: > -make flat-ish boxes with plywood sides, screen/hardware mesh bottoms, no > top. > -stack them on top of eachother > -for the bottom one, have holes in the sides, and a lightbulb > -I think the idea is that the bulb heats the air, which flows up through > your stacked boxes (with fruit on the mesh), and fresh air comes in through > the bottom holes > > Anyone tried something like this? Sounds like it could be made fairly > inexpensively - and be simple to fix if anything goes wrong. > > Thanks again, > Keegan >