jammin,

I looked at the thread you shared and realized I may be getting the type of bread maker, Oster, with a DC motor. The guy in the thread gave up on it because he couldn't figure out how to wire it for continuous mixing. (Now he also didn't need to reliably roast coffee in a sandstorm, either. I hope you tell us how you did that!!) Fortunately we're expecting a visit next week from a retired engineer, so if it is possible to rewire for our purposes, I'll post that.

Adam's bit that I don't need the Porter Cable level of variable HG because moving it closer or farther from the dog bowl creates infinite variation gave me "paws" until I realized I may prefer the delegation of mixing to the bread maker!

Yea the mixing can get old... but when you focus on the beans, changing colors, various aromas of the roasting, etc, its pretty fun.

If you get a DC motored mixer Im sure we can sort it out. One other gentleman in that thread was on the right track. The board will have 4 large diodes to convert the Ac to DC. The trick is to hook up the AC to the appropriate place on the board or just replace it with a aftermarket (Radio Shack) rectifier

ANeat wrote:when you focus on the beans, changing colors, various aromas of the roasting, etc, its pretty fun.

I look forward to that part with or without BM. It's kind of like pulling a shot on my Pavoni manual lever. It'll give me a better sense (sounds, smells, color) for progression of a roast. On that same thread, Martin made a convincing case for roasting simply.

Now I've moved on to the next phase in the home roasting journey, trying to modify a bread machine so it will work together with a heat gun and thermocouple. I don't just want to do this to avoid hand stirring but want to go this route because others say they can very closely monitor and control temperature changes in the roast with this method. I'll also create a cooling tray using a metal sieve and a fan at the bottom of a paint bucket, but first things first. Here's a link to my new thread where I'm trying to set up the heat gun and bread machine.

How to Modify a Bread Machine for Home Roasting?