I struggled for a long time to roughen the rollers enough to pull the grain through at an even pace. What really made a huge difference was conditioning the grain before hand with a spray bottle till it was the texture of damp leather. I read about the procedure here...
Previously I was getting too much flour and stuck sparges with my roller settings. After conditioning, the same settings gave me a beautiful crush at a reasonable pace.
The drill bits fair just fine, they are quite hard compared to the soft rollers. Pasta rollers work well. IME running the grain through twice helps to get a nice crush as the rollers are quite small. The pasta rollers no doubt will work, but for short money milling my hats off to the corona style.
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Well I don't really know what the corona style is, or where to get one, so I think I will be adding a pasta roller to my "to buy" list... will be sure to give feedback and pics, especially since the hubby likes to come up with his own way to do things once he gets into making stuff...
How are you folks dealing with the stray kernels that fly out of the mill? Using something as a barrier (which might cause them to fall into the bucket), or just letting them fly where they may?
How are you folks dealing with the stray kernels that fly out of the mill? Using something as a barrier (which might cause them to fall into the bucket), or just letting them fly where they may?
My hopper takes care of all that. There might be the occasional piece that makes it by, but 99% get's milled.
Yeah, I built a hopper on top and a four sided little box that sits under the mill and directs the crushed grain into the bucket. I usually find some uncrushed stuff stuck in the bottom portion of my mill and so once I'm done grinding I shake it out over another bowl and run it through the mill.
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Here is a look at how mine came out. It is hard to see in the picture but I used self taping screws to hold the hopper on. I cut and hammered the bottom of the hopper. Folded it in towards the rollers.
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I have been having issues with quite a bit of grain going uncrushed--about 10% I'd say. I have to send it back through the mill in order to get it to where I'd like it. But when I do that I get a **** load of flour and I don't really like that. I have weather striping along the top of the mill and my hopper (home depot bucket) sits flush on that. Any thoughts or suggestions?
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