Revvy's one of the cool reverends. He has a Harley and a t-shirt that says on the back "If you can read this, the bitch was Raptured.
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Originally Posted by YooperBrew
I gotta tell ya, just between us girls, that Revvy is HOT. Very tall, gorgeous grey hair and a terrific smile. He's very good looking in person, with a charismatic personality... he drives like a ****ing maniac!
Hmmm...what about the etchy stuff that people use on carboys....
That's for etching glass, I dunno if it would work on metal...it would be interesting if it would, because then we could create a diamond pattern stencil or something and get some actually control into the shape of the etching...do a grid or a cross hatch or something.
Revvy's one of the cool reverends. He has a Harley and a t-shirt that says on the back "If you can read this, the bitch was Raptured.
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Originally Posted by YooperBrew
I gotta tell ya, just between us girls, that Revvy is HOT. Very tall, gorgeous grey hair and a terrific smile. He's very good looking in person, with a charismatic personality... he drives like a ****ing maniac!
I'm the OP of this thread and just checked back in to see if this thing got any hits after the initial 10 or so.
It appears that I have created a monster!!!
I tried this out and it seemed to work alright but never took it through to total completion. I motorized mine but cutting the hand crank and filing it into a hex shape and using my drill to drive it. I have never done full batches with it though, only primers.
So it appears that I may very well do my next batch using the idea I once had which has now been refined by the HBT community. Thanks for following up and driving this baby through to completion while I've been off being a busy new dad. Now that I have time to brew again, I AM TOTALLY STOKED!
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Drinking: Fight Night Pale Ale
Fermenting: 100 pints o' Stout
Mine looks like the picture, and is an Atlas model 170. It seems, however, that they all come from the same cookie cutter. Mine has settings 1 through 7. Only 2, 3, or 4 are practical for grain. Try the loosest of these three, which is setting 2, and examine the result. The next tighter one may not pass the grains without extra friction, but with the weight of a couple pounds of grain on top they go through better. (I built a cardboard hopper.) To create friction, either wrap duct or similar tape around the rollers, or mar them up as described. Or, come up with a great idea and share it with us. I did my first couple batches with tape. The first batch I had on a wider setting (2) and the tape remained intact. When I wanted to grind finer, the tape started to shred, which created MOSFET's Duct Tape Ale. This batch, incidentally, is the best all grain batch I've made to date. I'm on my fifth all-pasta roller batch this weekend and I don't plan to use anything else unless it breaks one day. My emergency backup is a pro-style coffee grinder. I guess these roller settings would vary on grain size. I'm using 2 row. Crystal, however, can be a dog, and takes some oomph to crank through. The pasta roller is built like a tank and has taken everything I've given it so far.
Try this picture. Shows the motor and stuff I described above. Note the pasta roller in pieces because the rollers are still at the machine shop. And duct tape in the background. Mmmm.... tasty. When it's back together I'd be happy to videotape a grind.
It's back together and here's an incredibly pixelated video. I streamlined the resolution for internet and Google boxed it some more, but you can still make it out. The machined grooves work, but not as well as sandpaper. But it still crushed one pound per minute. I will put more grooves in it and try again. Today's batch went well. Word of caution: the audio doesn't come out until after about 50 seconds. So if you keep trying to increase the volume until then, you'll get a sudden earful of motor. The video is around 2 minutes.
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