Barley Crusher + Harbor Freight Low Speed Drill

[ryanhope]

I know people out there use the high torque low speed drill from Harbor Freight to power their grain mills. Well I wanted to show you guys a way to mount permanently mount your mill and drill. This might work with other mills but I only have a Barley Crusher to test on. If you remove the rubber feet on the stock mounting board and turn the drill to the perpendicular orientation show in the figure below, just 1 washer is needed to get the drill "perfectly" inline with the mill shaft. Just drill a hole though what ever you are mounting the mill and drill to that is lined up with the handle threads that are facing straight down. I hope this is useful to others!

 

[ShootsNRoots]

Nice setup. I have the older model of that drill which has a dial on the trigger to limit it (hold at a certain speed). How are you adjusting the speed on this model, is it by how far you pull the trigger?

 

[ryanhope]

They show both models online but only the one with out the speed control was in the store near me. I might zip tie the trigger all the way down then get a variable speed control box. Right now I am just holding the trigger manually.

 

[rustym]

I got lucky and went to two stores and found 1 drill of the old style with the rotary speed dial. I did the same setup as you did and it works awesome. Plus I had one of the 25% off coupons so I think it was like $32.

 

[ryanhope]

Yeah I might return this drill and order the variable version online.

 

[ianw58]

Just a note...

I bought one of these drills yesterday.

The chuck screw snapped just as I finished crushing 18# of grain.

I'll be taking back.

 

[ryanhope]

Just a note...

I bought one of these drills yesterday.

The chuck screw snapped just as I finished crushing 18# of grain.

I'll be taking back.

Chuck screw?

 

[ianw58]

There is a ingle small Phillips head screw that fixes the chuck to the drill motor. The head of that screw sheared md-head.

I think the screw was defective.

 

[Stealthcruiser]

The old "Chinese Screw" malfunction................:cross:

 

[Xantus954]

Sweet setup, i have the same barley crusher and after cranking my way through a double grind for 12lbs of grain this weekend I need something like this. My current drill almost burnt out when I tried to hook it up to the grain mill and didn't move it an inch.

To bad I don't have the space to build that out, I will be picking up the harbor freight drill for my next batch though.