The Silverplate Evaporator is a tried and tested design built by Smoky Lake Maple Products, LLC of Hilbert, Wisconsin. The fully insulated, airtight, stainless steel arch makes good use of the high efficiency pans that Smoky Lake is known for.*Why an airtight arch? An airtight door ensures that no cold air will be pulled into the arch, which is then pulled across the floor of the pans, negatively effecting evaporation rates. Also, with the amount of air being forced into the combustion chamber, the airtight door keeps the operator safe from sparks and embers.*Why Stainless steel arch sides? The inside of a maple syrup evaporator is a corrosive environment. Every time you light a fire in a cold evaporator everything develops condensation. The condensation will soak into the ceramic insulation and mix with the equally corrosive bi-products of wood-fire. This can eat through thin galvanized panels of a lesser arch within a few years.*Why Domed Cast Iron Grates? Cast iron, as a material, does not have a fiber body. Therefore when heated it has no tendency to warp. The perforations are placed in a way to create the most turbulence within the firebox. Remember the 3 \"T\"s of combustion -Time, Temperature, and TURBULENCE. *Why so many drop flues? When so much fire and heat is created, it is the pan\'s responsibility to harness that heat and put it into your sap. More flues means more surface area. More surface area means the pan can extract more heat, creating more evaporation with it before it gets to the stack pipe where it goes to waste.*Why 22ga stainless steel? Stainless Steel is a clean material. The high grade stainless steel we use (304) is resilient enough to handle the corrosive fire on the bottom side of the pans, and the mirror finish allows for perfect clean up keeping your evaporator looking new and beautiful - something you will be proud to create a wonderful food product in year after year. Stainless steel, however is a very poor conductor of heat. This is why it is extremely important to use as thin of metal as possible. Thin stainless is as important as number of flues when it comes to efficiency. *Why have Draw-off Boxes? The draw-off boxes on our front pans allows the syrup to draw off without resistance, the fittings actually drop below the level of the floor of the pan. This also allows for a positive drain of these pan compartments. ***Why Smoky Lake Maple Products? In addition to the above listed features of this evaporator, rest assured that our customer service is available at your finger tips. Call or email us any time while setting up the evaporator or during the season while running it. Whether it be for technical help or for general advice, we\'re here to help, and happy to do so.With many of these units being used by maple syrup producers across the country, the results have been consistent. HIGH PRODUCTIVITY! We will GUARANTEE no less then 60 gallons per hour of evaporation with this complete unit. In fact, every one of them has been achieving much more then that.This evaporator has a Drop-Flue pan set, built for supreme efficiency and unmatched quality. It is loaded, no feature is missing from these beautifully crafted Smoky Lake custom 2\'x6\' evaporator pans. With the full width of the flue pan packed with 10 drop flues and being built out of 22ga stainless steel, these are the most efficient pans in the industry. This featured evaporator has the SSR front pan (Same Side Reverse). With this feature the flow can be reversed in an instant, by simply swinging the handles of two ball valves. Our standard front pan, while still reversible, is less convenient but is offered at a $500 discount. All of our front pans are of crossflow design.Please take a look at the pictures and the list of features.*2\'×4\' drop flue pan, 10 flues 7\" deep, one divider. This pan is 14\" deep to contain the violent boil it produces.
*2\'x2\' front syrup pan with positively draining draw off boxes, reversible.
*Includes drainable float box with vented float and adjustable regulators.
*1.5\" sanitary clamp fittings are used to connect the pans and draw off.
*Pure stainless steel ball valves.
*Dual ports at both draw-off locations for thermometers or auto draw probes.
*Port for sight glass in included.
*Drain manifold included, allows you to drain the flue pan completely and easily.
*Premium quality mirror finish stainless steel.
*Engineered, cut, formed, and TIG welded with supreme skill and elaborate tooling. Proudly \"reflecting\" true American craftsmanship.
*The two piece hood has drain gutters around the entire perimeter with a threaded fitting to evacuate the hot condensation. It too is build with premium mirror finish stainless steel. It comes standard with a hinged inspection door. The front hood mounts very securely to the main hood, but can be removed within 1 second should you ever need full, instant access to the front pan.
*There is no other sap preheater in the industry like ours. The tubing sits over the top of the v-channels where steam is forced through the slots, making direct contact with the copper tubing. The condensation, when it drips, falls into the bottom of the \"v\" where it is evacuated from the system. This is the most efficient preheater systems available. Flame at rear of pan, base coming into the float in flue breakdown:2\'x6\' Premium Drop Flue pan set, $2950
SSR Pan Option, $550
TIG Welded Hood Set, $1350
High Output, Airtight, Stainless Arch with Stainless Steel Stack Pipe, $3550
Complete Preheater, $750Complete evaporator, $9150.00
fees, $1428.75
Total, 10,578.75For Raised Flue add $500.*Due to \'s ever-increasing rates and seller fees, we are forced to increase the price of this evaporator on only. Luckily there are other ways to purchase this equipment elsewhere. Email us any time. Be sure to see ALL of our pictures for more info. This complete evaporator is available for $9150 for direct sale only, contact us if interested.
