wilserbrewer

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Report back w/ a review...I'm curious what you think.

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brewmonk

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man, you guys are killing me.

here I am, trying to wait patiently until I can hook my corona up to some bike gearing, and at least PRETEND to be getting some exercise, and now I have sweet, little, innocent $40 price tags dancing in front of my wallet!

(the drill seems like a good buy, and that gear motor is beautiful. for 40 bucks each, I want both)

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- Half empty, half full, It's still time to brew.

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- It's hard to dovetail when your wood shop is a rocking chair and a cooler - the bigjoetrain

Elshauno

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The Harbor Freight 1/2 drill 'D" handle drill seems very solid and probably will have no issues going through thick plate steel let alone running some grain through a Monster Mill MM2. I would guess the rpms to be in the 100 to 200 range at the lowest setting which seems just about right for milling. I crushed some grain from a stand still to half throttle and it didn't even wince with the hopper totally filled. In fact with the way its geared it idle down after I let go of the trigger instead of dying like other lesser drills I did have to retighten the chuck after some milling short of that I am planning on building a mount for this drill and will post back with pics when it is complete. Although I would never think of carrying this drill to a jobsite everyday, it will definitely have its way with some grain for years to come. As well as various odd jobs around the house that my little Dewalt can't handle like drilling plate steel. A good investment at 38 dollars.

Catt22

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Dem Chinese makes good stuff...

wilserbrewer

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Hah...my thoughts exactly when I purchased this big ass HF drill...I have an old craftsmen 1/2" drill that works great...but for 35 bucks out the door I was tickled to purchase.

How Dem Chinese can make a drill like this and ship it here and retail it for 30 some bucks is amazing.

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Catt22

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Years ago I bought a huge machinists vice for my workbench. It must have weighed about 65 lbs. IIRC, I paid only $35 for it. Same thing. How can they acquire the steel, forge the thing, ship it here, sell it through multiple middle men who each mark it up substantially and yet it's only $35. i would think the steel and shipping alone would be a lot more than that for such a big chunk of iron.

brewmonk

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we send em all the old cars back that we bought (from overseas) and rusted out.

I'm assuming all that stuff (bandsaws, grainmills, car parts, knives, lead painted toys, you name it) is reverse engineered from something an american company is paying to have forged/assembled/fabricated at the next factory over.

I know that the only difference between some tools (craftsman v.s. MAC for e.g.) is a tooling change, a steel change, or none. (of course I heard that THAT was in a Korean factory)

heck, not just a DRILL, they can send a drill-PRESS here for that!

who wants to make 50 bucks a day? we can do that here too!
(sorry for the rant)

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- Half empty, half full, It's still time to brew.

- Yeast is blind, has no brain, can't think straight, and is lucky to land comfortably on the bottom of something, in a liquidy MUSH. Must be a WEEKEND!

- It's hard to dovetail when your wood shop is a rocking chair and a cooler - the bigjoetrain

Bullka

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Do you guys have any thoughts on how to control the speed with one of these drills without having to stand there and hold the trigger the whole time.
Call me lazy, but I would love to have some sort of dial or knob to adjust the speed and walk away.
I could also use this with my peristaltic pump head.
Any cheap ideas?
This way I can walk inside and fill up my glass while the mill is still running!


Would a Rheostat work or would that just burn up the motor?

brewmonk

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i think that a u-shaped piece of wood (or something else) that would pinch in the trigger just enough, might be an easy imperfect rpm focuser (NOT controller).

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- Half empty, half full, It's still time to brew.

- Yeast is blind, has no brain, can't think straight, and is lucky to land comfortably on the bottom of something, in a liquidy MUSH. Must be a WEEKEND!

- It's hard to dovetail when your wood shop is a rocking chair and a cooler - the bigjoetrain

wilserbrewer

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The HF drill has a button for "constant" on. You just need a way to hold it next to the mill.

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