What didn't work? Couldn't get the crush right? I though about trying this out (since you always seem to find pasta makers at garage sales for like $3), but never got around to it.
There's 1 set of adjustable roller but they are polished smooth. The other 2 sets are offset cutters again smooth so there's no bite on the grain and it's not pulling it through.
I tried as well Orfy and spent an hour fashioning a hopper out of scrap lumber, I suspected the polished rollers would be a problem and as you experienced no bite. I was brainstorming for a way to rough them up in a somewhat uniform manner since I got this one for just a few quid but haven't yet figured out a good method. Sure would be nice to find a way to use this though.
A dremel type tool would do it, use a guide on the other roller. I reckon you could do it without taking it apart.
I don't want to risk it if it doesn't work due to the pasta machine still being used for pasta. If it works I'll sacrifice it.
A hammer and cold chisel, whack it a couple thousand times. What the hell, the point of a hobby is to spend time, it ought to take only an hour or so. Or use an air chisel. Or clamp the chisel in a vise grip, make it into a "knurling hammer". Doing one roller would probably suffice.
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So far, I've had more experience thinking than I've had brewing....you don't think they are mutually exclusive, do you?
57 batches so far,
33 wine, mostly Loquat, peach, plum, prickly pear
22 beers and ciders
1 sauerkraut
1 Tequila, from a prickly pear wine experiment that didn't work. I call it "Prickly Heat"
Are those cheap pasta rollers built with gears to drive both rollers? My tortilla press/grain mill has slick 3" aluminm rolls, with gears, and works great. I may try it without the gears, they are so poorly cast the noise is b-a-d. Smaller rollers need knurling, larger rollers need neither gears nor knurls. I'll try the cast iron pasta roller with the slick geared bronze rolls with a sample this weekend when next I brew. $7 at Salvation Army- do you think they would have sold it to me if they knew I was gonna make alcohol with it?
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So far, I've had more experience thinking than I've had brewing....you don't think they are mutually exclusive, do you?
57 batches so far,
33 wine, mostly Loquat, peach, plum, prickly pear
22 beers and ciders
1 sauerkraut
1 Tequila, from a prickly pear wine experiment that didn't work. I call it "Prickly Heat"
I have a pasta machine gathering dust in the cupboard. Have an angle grinder. Will wait until it gets dark tonight (for the spark show) and let 'er rip!
I LOVE POWER TOOLS!!! ...and the smell of two stroke
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