OK...it works! I took it apart and roughed the rollers by hitting them MANY times with the edge of a big file. Took maybe 30-45 minutes to rough them both up (they are both driven BTW) and once I got it back together I went to the basement, got some grain, dropped it in and turned the crank.... milled grain was the result! The gap is adjustable too, so I was able to get what I think it going to work pretty well. I think I'm going to be very happy with my $15 mill!
I think tomorrow night being Friday I may just have to BREW!!! I will have to do a partial boil though, no cooler yet. No outside burner either, and it's supposed to be cold and rainy here then.
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OK...it works! I took it apart and roughed the rollers by hitting them MANY times with the edge of a big file. Took maybe 30-45 minutes to rough them both up (they are both driven BTW) and once I got it back together I went to the basement, got some grain, dropped it in and turned the crank.... milled grain was the result! The gap is adjustable too, so I was able to get what I think it going to work pretty well. I think I'm going to be very happy with my $15 mill!
I think tomorrow night being Friday I may just have to BREW!!! I will have to do a partial boil though, no cooler yet. No outside burner either, and it's supposed to be cold and rainy here then.
Thanks for reporting back to the thread. Glad it did work. Any chance you can post pictures of it (with the modified rollers)?
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I think this may be a big key as to why such small rollers can pull the grain in.
My only concern would be durability of the mechanism. Grain is alot harder than raw pasta. So i am interested to see how well it goes once you put a few pounds of grain through it. Especially that crystal, it is hard stuff.
My only concern would be durability of the mechanism. Grain is alot harder than raw pasta. So i am interested to see how well it goes once you put a few pounds of grain through it. Especially that crystal, it is hard stuff.
Craig
They can take a lot...they push polymer clay through them for years without problems and that stuff, even conditioned, is pretty "chewey." That's why we've adopted them.
Grain is harder, but will break long before the mechanism would...a half inch slab of fimo is nothing to sneeze at.
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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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!
They can take a lot...they push polymer clay through them for years without problems and that stuff, even conditioned, is pretty "chewey." That's why we've adopted them.
Grain is harder, but will break long before the mechanism would...a half inch slab of fimo is nothing to sneeze at.
My Wife uses Fimo as well as she is an artist and I bought her a pasta thingy as well and after like 5 yrs of use it's still in great shape and does what it's supposed to do.
Cheers
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My Wife uses Fimo as well as she is an artist and I bought her a pasta thingy as well and after like 5 yrs of use it's still in great shape and does what it's supposed to do.
Cheers
Mongo
Oh crap, you know what I just remebered, does she have any of those metal "texture plates" that you could get for them? (Now thy're plastic) you sandwiched the clay between the metal plates and ran them through the rollers...I wonder if they could be actually be cut and bonded to the rollers rather than needing to have them machined.
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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 do intend to post pictures, or more correctly, a link to them, as soon as I can get them off my DIL's camera. I used it for about 1/2 pound of 2 row tonight in a quick test and it worked fine. Tomorrow is a better test though, will be running 6 pounds of 2 row and some crystal and wheat through it. I think I'm going to take it off its base and bolt it to a board so I can mount it on a bucket though, it's unwieldy clamped to a sideboard.
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I do intend to post pictures, or more correctly, a link to them, as soon as I can get them off my DIL's camera. I used it for about 1/2 pound of 2 row tonight in a quick test and it worked fine. Tomorrow is a better test though, will be running 6 pounds of 2 row and some crystal and wheat through it. I think I'm going to take it off its base and bolt it to a board so I can mount it on a bucket though, it's unwieldy clamped to a sideboard.
I was wondering how people were dealing with the clamp on stand issue, it doesn't make for easy falling into a bucket having the metal base on it.
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!
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