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Popcorn Popper -> Coffee Roaster v.2

So, I had a pretty tragic senior moment not so long ago. It involved my old coffee roaster and the pressure of a large backlog of pending roasts right before leaving for vacation. I setup my trusty (if ugly as hell) modded popcorn popper, plugged everything in, and went back in the house to pickup my first batch of greens. I returned to find an acrid puff of smoke rising from the roaster. One glance at the control panel betrayed my clumsiness...I had accidentally flipped on the heating element (but not the fan) as I was getting up. Heating sans fan is not good for plastic, for those of you who may be wondering. Long story short, my fan had turned into a smelly lump of blackened plastic that spun all-at-once around the shaft with a "Whump!-Whump!-Whump...