I picked up a repro Little Nut Hut a few weeks ago. I wanted one for work, and I didn't want to bring in one of my original ones. I would worry about it getting damaged.
The new design works well, but it is a bit ugly in my opinion. I didn't care for the roof color, the wimpy light bulb, or the gaudy writing on the front (Hot, Delicious, Nutritious). It was also much harder to disassemble and clean. Cosmetically, I just didn't like it. Mechanically, it works the same. Electrically, the heaters are much hotter. The original heater was a 10 watt heater. The new heaters are 17 watts. I temped the nuts and compared the two temperatures. The new machine had some nuts in the 170 F to 190 F range, which is hot enough to burn you. The old one was more in the 120 F to 130 F range. I can handle that temperature in my hand.
Overall, I was happy to see that someone made a repro because these are cool machines. Did anyone else buy one of these machines? Just curious on your opinion if you did.
Here's a picture of both of them.
Thanks,
Larry.
Here's a video comparing two NOS nut huts. It's pretty long and boring with my mono tone narratives. I put time indexes in the description if anyone wanted to see anything in particular.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV2_JrLjNBg&t=145sI also just added a brief demo of both machines loading and using today. Nothing to exciting.
Original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC5vXMf6RvURepro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4_NODk7P4I
