bignath
"Grains don't grow up to be chips, son"
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Just wondering, how often do you clean your mill rollers?
I typically would only clean them when the flour buildup was really noticeable, this is probably really bad practise in hind sight, and i feel kind of dirty admitting it....
Recently i've been having some problems with my mill pulling in the grain from my hopper. Today (half an hour ago) before crushing grain for brewday, i had a look at my rollers. They didn't "look" like they were that coated, but i thought about it and realised that surely if there is excessive build up of flour on the rollers, then it would struggle to grip the grain.
Pretty fucken obvious right??
Gave them a going over with the steel brush until they were all nice and shiny again.
Grain in hopper, drill on, BOOM! grain mill working again. (no shit sherlock...)
So, how often do you currently clean your rollers?
And obviously, if you have noticed a downturn in performance of your mill, then have a go at your rollers...
Please don't respond to this thread with "your a dumbass and should've figured this out earlier" as i've already beaten myself up over this enough.
Curious as to what others' regime is....
BN
I typically would only clean them when the flour buildup was really noticeable, this is probably really bad practise in hind sight, and i feel kind of dirty admitting it....
Recently i've been having some problems with my mill pulling in the grain from my hopper. Today (half an hour ago) before crushing grain for brewday, i had a look at my rollers. They didn't "look" like they were that coated, but i thought about it and realised that surely if there is excessive build up of flour on the rollers, then it would struggle to grip the grain.
Pretty fucken obvious right??
Gave them a going over with the steel brush until they were all nice and shiny again.
Grain in hopper, drill on, BOOM! grain mill working again. (no shit sherlock...)
So, how often do you currently clean your rollers?
And obviously, if you have noticed a downturn in performance of your mill, then have a go at your rollers...
Please don't respond to this thread with "your a dumbass and should've figured this out earlier" as i've already beaten myself up over this enough.
Curious as to what others' regime is....
BN