Malt Mill question

waldoar15 · 11-19-2009, 11:26 PM

I'm tossing around the idea of building my own as a winter project.

Lets say for the sake of simplicity I want to keep the rollers fixed instead of adjustable. What would be the optimum distance between the rollers for a decent crush?

TIA

ClaudiusB · 11-19-2009, 11:39 PM

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Lets say for the sake of simplicity I want to keep the rollers fixed instead of adjustable. What would be the optimum distance between the rollers for a decent crush?

My mill gap is set at .035" for all grain types.

Cheers,
ClaudiusB

**bad coffee** · 11-20-2009, 09:17 AM

.036 on my mill.

B

**Homercidal** · 11-20-2009, 01:42 PM

While a fixed crush will be simpler to build, an adjusting mill will be far more useful. The worst would be building the thing and then finding out that it crushed too finely, or too coarsely to be useful. Then you will be standing there wishing you could tweak it just a little bit.

**bendavanza** · 11-20-2009, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Homercidal

While a fixed crush will be simpler to build, an adjusting mill will be far more useful. The worst would be building the thing and then finding out that it crushed too finely, or too coarsely to be useful. Then you will be standing there wishing you could tweak it just a little bit.

And adjust for wear.

**sudbuster** · 11-20-2009, 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by waldoar15

I'm tossing around the idea of building my own as a winter project.

Lets say for the sake of simplicity I want to keep the rollers fixed instead of adjustable. What would be the optimum distance between the rollers for a decent crush?

TIA

Some helpful info may be found here

waldoar15 · 11-21-2009, 01:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Sudbuster

Some helpful info may be found here

Thanks.

Interesting. He only has one live roll.

I'm trying to get around the problem with an adjustable and have both rollers live and gear driven.