My Mill

[matho]

hi guy's just finnished my mill and wanted to show and tell
the rollers are 2in* 8in ss that i scabed from work and got knerled at work
the aluminium plate was free and the rest cost about $40.
I recon that the mill's on the market are completly worth it as i spent about 15 hours making it.
I ran some grain thru it the other day and played around with the gap setting.
I started out useing my GMC battery drill but it didn't have enough gut's so i got my hilti battery drill (work's)

which did it with no worries

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the first crush is at 1.2 mm and the second is at 1.5mm

 

[Ross]

Nice work Matho, another work of art :super:

As you've probably worked out already, the 1.5ml crush is too wide, the 1.2 looks good - just make sure any whole grains crumble between your fingers - if they don't, decrease the gap a tad further.

cheers Ross

 

[Barramundi]

very nice job mate , well done !!!

its probably time i got of my arse and got the stand/hopper for my monster mill organised and alsosomething to spin it

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

The 1.2mm crush looks heaps better..It has more flour in it...

My mill, which has similar rollers is set to about .9mm, so you may want to give that a go..

 

[~MikE]

15hours? yeah even if i could build one, probably wouldn't have the patience. very nice work tho, i'm impressed.

 

[matho]

I originally was going to try 0.8mm , 1mm and 1.2mm but when i tried .8mm with my gmc battery drill it just wouldn't crush.
then i tried the other settings still would not crush unless i got i running then poured the grains in slowly.
I made a plate up for the bottom of the hopper to reduce the opening to about 6mm but that didn't help to much.
I finally decided to go to my work van and get the hilti battery drill, it had no problems crushing but i only had enough grain left to do two settings.
thanks for the advice when i get more grain i will try finer settings.

cheer's

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

The "Tony" mill that I have, which looks the same dimensions as yours needs a decent motor ( I think it is a 1/4 Hp ) to get it to go.....in fact the motor I have on it needs a help hand to get it started, then once it is running it is OK...


You will be suprised at just how much power it will take to drive it....

I probably would use a drill long term, unless you have a good supply of them..

 

[PostModern]

Way too much flour in the 1.2mm crush, you'll never get that to float.

The mill is great tho. How adjustable is it?

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Way too much flour in the 1.2mm crush, you'll never get that to float.

The mill is great tho. How adjustable is it?

To much flour....

I like a bit more flour than that...and still get 75-80%..

It depends on how much husk you get..it is possible to get good flour AND husks..

 

[matho]

post,
the mill can be adjusted between 0mm to 5mm.

 

[Swinging Beef]

post,
the mill can be adjusted between 0mm to 5mm.

Wow.. that looks mighty!
I just bought a marga mill, and would like to get ideas on pulleys and motors to motorise the beast.
I dont think going back to bunnings every three weeks on warrantee claims for burned out drills is the right way to go.

 

[Guest Lurker]

Way too much flour in the 1.2mm crush, you'll never get that to float.

The mill is great tho. How adjustable is it?

****** new age floaters! Crush the lot to a fine powder, then spend a few months designing a manifold to cope with it!

 

[matho]

so after years of good service I have decided to gear my mill. I have always noticed a bit of husk shredding and have been meaning to fix it




we will see how it goes

 

[Florian]

Great idea, that looks like a surprisingly simple mod in comparison to the mill itself.

Great idea for those with failing monster mills, but their design might not allow that, not sure.

 

[Rowy]

so after years of good service I have decided to gear my mill. I have always noticed a bit of husk shredding and have been meaning to fix it

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we will see how it goes

God you handy pricks make me sick!

 

[Edak]

With those gears on the side how do you adjust the gap?

 

[matho]

the teeth are long enough to cope with up to a 5mm gap. I made sure that they over lapped enough to be able to be adjusted

 

[Edak]

Nice thinking matho, your mill must be quite tough to crush a screwdriver too

 

[matho]

The mill gives a really crush with both rollers driven, the latest problem has been when I moisten the grain, the load on the mill increases too much for my little jaw coupler to cope so I went to my local bearing mob and got a lovejoy L075 jaw coupling to handle the load. the next up grade is to replace the drill with a recently found induction motor, I just have to turn the shaft down to a 1/2" diameter.



cheers steve

 

[matho]

just finished fitting the motor to the mill and I'm very happy, the motor has enough torque to start with grain in the hopper and it is a lot quiter than the drill motor. The drive line is nice and strong and the crush is excellent.





cheers steve

edit: the mill went through 1.2kg of grain in under 1 min