Grain Mill Motor

[jimmyjack]

Does anyone know if this motor at Jaycar will have enough torque to drive a barley crusher grain Mill?

Jaycar
Also found a spider coupler their for about 10 bucks


Cheers
JJ

 

[warrenlw63]

JJ.

Small world. I picked up one of their spider couplers ($15) today to motorise my Marga with a wiper motor. Early testing seems positive. The coupler takes up the "shimmy" effect of a mis-aligned shaft. :beerbang:

As for the DC motor driving the mill? No, I doubt it JJ. You'd be better to go to a car wreckers and source a wiper motor. Far more grunt. :beer: Also at 36 RPM they may be considered a little slow.

When the whole thing's up and running (successfully :unsure: ) I'll post a couple of pics.

Warren -

 

[AndrewQLD]

Here is a good site with a geared motor used on bicycles
link to motor

The model is sc250g.
Cheers
Andrew

 

[warrenlw63]

Nice link Andrew, thanks. :beerbang:

Think I'll bookmark it.

Warren -

 

[Tony M]

I have a 65 watt motor on my mill and the rollers coincidently do 36RPM. It takes me near 15 minutes to crush 5KG of grain and if I dampen the grain, the motor stalls, so I'm right on the edge with the 65 watts. The motor you were looking is 15watts or so which is too gutless.

 

[jimmyjack]

Ok found a bigger one. What about this one??

Jaycar

I am trying to get away from building a pulley or sprocket system. I suppose a windshied wiper motor will work.

Cheers, JJ

 

[Justin]

Windscreen wiper motors do work. I have posted about using one to power my barley crusher so do a search and you'll find photos and details. The spider coupling would be the go though to couple the two.

I wouldn't mess with the Jaycar one, I very much doubt it would work.

FWIW I use a battery charger as a power source for mine, but a computer power source could also do the job. Both are cheap. And no pulleys

 

[Gulf Brewery]

Hi jimmyjack and justin

A wiper motor is very easy to do, no gearbox and a lot less hassle than what it would be to mount the jaycar ones.

Have a look at my Valley Mill I converted about 3 years ago and still going strong.






Cheers
Pedro

 

[jimmyjack]

Thanx Pedro and Justin, on the search for wiper motors now. How do you wire them up. Justin you mentioned a car battery charger. Pedro that looks hard wired.

Cheers JJ

 

[Gulf Brewery]

Pedro that looks hard wired.

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JJ

It is not really hard wired. What I did was use from cable retainers to hold the cable down to the edge of the mill table so it doesn't get in the way and have a plug on the end of that. There is a switch mounted on the mill table as well that gives forward and reverse too.

Cheers
Pedro

 

[Batz]

[gives forward and reverse too.

Cheers
Pedro

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Exellent idea!
I'll be doing that,help to free teeth etc from some cheap malt brands.

Batz

 

[Darren]

OK, I will 'Bite". you found teeth? I found some metal once in some aussie malt, luckily before it hit the rollers.

cheers
Darren

 

[Tony]

here are come pics of my motorised grain mill.

It is home made...... 10" long 2" dia rollers.

The motor is a 240 v 2 speed motor.

Its rated at 100W on low speed (950 RPM) and 370 W (1500 RPM).

It runs the mill at about 150 RPM on hi speed with the pullys and has no problems cracking 10 KG in under 2 min.

pullys are 1 1/4" amd 12 ".

the low speed setting will run but you have to "kick start" it by hand and it labours so i dont use it. Plus on the higher speed the husks are kept whole but the grain inside seems to come out of the hush a bit more and i get better efficiency so slow speed is not always the best. I told some people in breweries that my mill ran at 150 RPM and they said..... is that all!

I wet my grain with about 150 mls water in 9 to 12 KG and get great cracking results.

cheers

 

[Batz]

OK, I will 'Bite

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Cheers Darren :beerbang: :lol:

No mate, no teeth as yet.
Unless the old Tidalpete dropped his choppers in a bag :huh:

Cheers
Batz

 

[stephen]

The wiper motoers are a great idea. To diverse a little, about twenty two years ago I built my father a spit or rotisserie for Xmas. The spit was, and still is, driven by a wiper motor driving through a gear box from an old electric drill. The spit has done over 200 beasts and other variations of a theme. so the wiper motor will go for a long time,

To wire up. The wiper motor (or most of them) have 4 electrical connections. One earth or common ground. Two different speed connections and a "park" connection. From memory, the earth or common ground is generally the odd connector out; ie it is vertical and all the rest are horizontal. Knowing this, it is simply connect the blavk from a battery charger to this connection and then, by trial and error, use the red lead to determine what the other connectors do.

Discalimer: Most wiper moters I have seen are somewhat like this, though some of the more modern motoers may not be like this at all. This post is a generalisation.

Steve

 

[recharge]

Ok since the topic of motors is up, does anyone know how fast a washing machine motor runs. I have one out of an old Hoover which was belt driven. They have nothing written on them.

Cheers

:beer:

Richard

 

[Tony M]

Ok since the topic of motors is up, does anyone know how fast a washing machine motor runs. I have one out of an old Hoover which was belt driven. They have nothing written on them.

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All those motors (squirrel cage) run at 1440 RPM.

 

[ausdb]

Ok since the topic of motors is up, does anyone know how fast a washing machine motor runs. I have one out of an old Hoover which was belt driven. They have nothing written on them.

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All those motors (squirrel cage) run at 1440 RPM.

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A lot of washing machine motors are two speed, I have one out of an old hoover front loader in the shed which I am sure has a low speed of about 3-400 rpm. I will check it tomorrow and post back

 

[recharge]

Thanks for replys.
Sqirrel cage? I guess it could resemble one

cheers

richard

 

[Jez]

I've got one of these washing machine motors I think - how can I check to see if it's 2 speed or not? is it just written on the plate near where the speed is printed?

If it is 2 speed how do I get it to run at the lower speed? I got the motor from Bankstown Markets & it came already wired up with a lead & wall plug.

Jez