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Hooking Walton's 50 lb mixer to Weson 22 Pro Series
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When I was making some summer sausage the other day, I was using my new 50 LB mixer from Walton’s for the first time. I chose this, as my research led me to believe that these would connect. Is there a secret to getting these to hook up to each other? I ended up hand cranking it, which was still better than hand mixing, but I would much prefer the less labor intensive option, lol.
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Tex_77 Team Blue Power User Traeger Primo Grills PK Grills Canning Sous Vide Community Moderator last edited by
Midwest_kc I believe this has been discussed before, and I don’t think they are compatible. You might search the site and see if there is a different answer, I know Walton has not tested the compatibility between the two themselves, as they designed them to work with their grinders.
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might find a local machine shop to make you an adaptor
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Screwing that up is awfully on character for me, lol…I could have sworn I read on here that it would work, but here I am, not able to find it.
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Midwest_kc it may be less labor intensive to hook up to the grinder but I do that with mine, and unfortunately the grinder does not have a reverse option, and they say for best results to mix equally in both directions, this is why I had asked Jonathan if their new waltons grinders were going to have that reverse feature as some do
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I did find where back in January, Jonathon mentioned that the Walton’s mixer worked with “A Weston Grinder” however, he didn’t specify which one. Oh well. Looks like I may be trying to trade someone, lol.
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Tex_77 Team Blue Power User Traeger Primo Grills PK Grills Canning Sous Vide Community Moderator last edited by
RJ Adventures looking at the user guide for Weston Meat mixers neither size say anything about operating the mixers in reverse. The reverse function is not necessary for mixing. I believe Jonathon mentioned in a livecast that Weston changed their design sometime ago and operating the mixer in reverse was no longer necessary.
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Tex_77 yeah he did mention there was no need for the reverse feature, but I believe when I was watching that day it was because the meat not getting stuck in there, but it seems like anytime mixing with a 50# mixer or whatever its mentioned that you should mix in both directions for the same amount of time each way. Is this no longer needed then to mix both directions when hand crank mixing?
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Tex_77 Team Blue Power User Traeger Primo Grills PK Grills Canning Sous Vide Community Moderator last edited by
RJ Adventures not according to Weston’s user manuals. I don’t have a Walton’s user manual to look at right now.
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Regarding the reverse feature. I can’t find the post but after buying the #22 butcher series I found there is a warning label on it saying not to run in reverse for more than five seconds. I asked Austin about this. After he contacted Weston they said their mixers a designed to run in forward only.
So… No reason to have the reverse feature. Actually have never used it.Knowing my grinder will not hook up to #50 mixer I’m now looking at the Walton’s #22.
Will just part ways with the existing equipment I have.
Found that post. https://meatgistics.waltonsinc.com/topic/912/grinders?_=1619044464008
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Was thinking about buy that 50lb mixer myself .
Your thoughts on how it worked ?
Smaller batches 5/10/15/20
Cleaning ?
Etc
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The 50 lb mixer I have, anything smaller than like a 15 lb batch makes it somewhat difficult, I’d like to get a 20 lb mixer as well so I can have one for just about any size batch that I’d worry about needing a mixer… for small 5 lb batches, I just always mix by hand (yes I know protein extraction makes your arms and hands pretty strong afrer a few of these even with such a small batch!)
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Stella69 I was doing a 25 lb batch, and it worked great. Not sure how it would work on smaller batches, but I’d imagine that 5 or 10 would be too small.
Cleaning was difficult, as it’s too big for the sink. I ended up boiling some water and dumping it in with some soap, scrubbing and then dumping it out. Worked ok, and won’t be a big deal in the future, I just never factored sink size in until I was trying to clean it up!
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The 50# mixer works with the basic 22 grinder it is the one that has the square frame not the pro version this is basically the same as lems mixer and grinder just a little changes made to the mixer.
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RJ Adventures
Thanks for the feed back
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Thanks for the response
I do some 25lb batches but mostly 15 since its just the wife and I.
Maybe i should look at smaller mixer like 30.Thanks AGAIN
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PapaSop i have a weston 22 butcher series grinder, and it works with waltons 50# mixer. Maybe we aren’t talking about the same pieces of equipment?
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IVERYAN
Interesting. Just going by pics. Didn’t look like it would match up. Thanks! -
Midwest_kc For equipment clean up, it’s hard to beat a hose with a spray nozzle connected to your hot water line.
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The issue with mixer to grinder comparability is the difference in hub size not the shaft itself. The shaft in all are 3/4" x 6 spline. The hub where the two pieces meet and clamp together are different in about every brand. LEM is the only mixer that is smaller than 50lb and quite pricey. The smallest batch I have used in my 50lb cabelas mixer was 15lb and it worked fine.
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