ihatehoward
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if you want to cut down on flying bits, you can just grind your grain at my house. hell, you can even brew your beer at my house..i will take more pictures next time..
mike
mike
if you want to cut down on flying bits, you can just grind your grain at my house. hell, you can even brew your beer at my house..i will take more pictures next time..
mike
That's so ugly it's purdy, Defenestrate!!!
Since I'm off between Christmas and New Years I am going to re-do mine and go with the 2 buckets + water jug design with mine. Good by ugly choo choo, hello double bucket design.
Well, my corona knockoff arrived today (thanks to Revvy's kick in the pants), and WOW you guys weren't kidding when you said the manufacturers had no idea what the word "tolerances" means. Can't wait for my next trip to LowesDepot to pick up stuff to uglify this thing!
Did anyone else's smell strongly of petroleum (oil/gas) when it came out of the box?
Here is the sexiest Corona mill ever:
That's right. 45 degree cut on the end of it, and it's long enough that I can put my leg on one side and my arm on the other to stabilize. the 45 degree cut is where I rest my foot.
Tin foil covers the area where the grain drops, and i bend it so that the grain doesn't go everywhere.
Hey everyone -- here's a video of my kids helping me grind barley with my Value Village $15 score:
http://vimeo.com/8424072
Why am I adding it here? Well, it's hard to see in the video, but I don't need no stinkin' washers to keep the spacing right...I've used pennies instead. I figure that's gotta qualify for the thread, right?
I don't the pennies will work for too long though, sounds like Eli wants them.
How many are you going to buy before you get a barley crusher? Going cheap is good, going cheap again and again... is expensive.
How many are you going to buy before you get a barley crusher? Going cheap is good, going cheap again and again... is expensive.
Revvy I got some ugly junk!
and the resident brew assistant vacumning up flying bits. still need to put a cover on the front. but i have brewed 3 1.5 gallon AG test batches with it, with about 75-78% eff all three times
we dont know what he is SWMBO and I found him running down a major road when he was little pup we think there is healer and jack russel maybe dachsundThe dog a catahoula?
Your junk is pretty ugly jppostKW!
yup old piece of flooring to mount the corona some hvac flashing to direct grain
a couple angle iron chunks with screws to hold on various parts to the bucket all screws still sharp its awesome!
and the grease stains on the carpet from last friday that SWMBOS still angry about
Please tell me you weren't fixing truck carb in there.
She put the kiabosh on fixing stuff in the house after i had to buy a new dishwasher after using it to wash a fuel pump for a Powerstroke. (she gets a lot of flowers)
I have an equally ugly Corona mill set up. What I also have is an old huffy stationary bike. What I am thinking of is pedal power. I was never taught to be the most mechanical person in the world. Could anybody on here with a mechanical inclination get me started?
I would imagine I would take the front wheel off and run the chain to another gear box that powers a belt. The belt would somehow spin the corona.
I actually JB welded the ginding palate at the shaft as well...twice, grrr. First time I thought I had it perfectly aligned but unfortunately had a bad wobble to the plate. Whacked it w/ a hammer to get rid of the JB weld for round two. The second time was a charm! I found that if you reassemble the mill w/ the JB weld still pliable, you can get the plate lined up well w/ the the opposite grinding plate.
Hope this makes sense / helps.
Mike
Tough to say without looking at your mill. The bolt may actually be holding the grinding plate crooked. Somehow you need to have enough play in the grinding plate so it can spin true to the oppisite plate. Maybe filing the outer hub, or drilling the hole larger will allow the plates to align.
Not really sure the JB weld is needed. If the grinding plate is free, it might just self align when the mill is tightened.
Did you try and just tighten the mill for a finer grind?
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