leiothrix
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I hand crank mine at the moment. It's not hard (mill master v1) but it's a very boring 10 minutes to crush the grain and clean up afterwards.
I'm going to build a stand with the mill and a motor in it. I won't have to do anything other than flick the switch to grind the grain, and I won't have a mass of dust everywhere.
Obviously it would take a lot of milling to make up for the effort of building the stand, but I enjoy making stuff and don't enjoy cranking the mill.
Adds another couple hundred $$ to the cost of the mill, but it will keep the area cleaner (no dust) and when not in use will be another bench in my workshop. And will give me a place to store my kettle.
And not that I've built it yet, but I don't really envisage there to be much maintenance. Tensioning the belt once in a while will take a few minutes and will probably only have to be done once early in its life and will be just turning a tensioner, and the belt itself will last for years.
And I think I've used the word 'and' a bit too much. Meh.
I'm going to build a stand with the mill and a motor in it. I won't have to do anything other than flick the switch to grind the grain, and I won't have a mass of dust everywhere.
Obviously it would take a lot of milling to make up for the effort of building the stand, but I enjoy making stuff and don't enjoy cranking the mill.
Adds another couple hundred $$ to the cost of the mill, but it will keep the area cleaner (no dust) and when not in use will be another bench in my workshop. And will give me a place to store my kettle.
And not that I've built it yet, but I don't really envisage there to be much maintenance. Tensioning the belt once in a while will take a few minutes and will probably only have to be done once early in its life and will be just turning a tensioner, and the belt itself will last for years.
And I think I've used the word 'and' a bit too much. Meh.