Hi all, just got my BC yesterday, love it! I think I need to widen the gap, though, it crushed my Hefeweizen grains a little too fine, had my first stuck sparge. What do you all set it to? I'm going to buy a set of those little gauges.
So, my 4 pounds of Pilsen went through fine yesterday, but I had some trouble with the 7 pounds of wheat. I had it hooked up to my corded Ryobi drill, and after going through about a pound of it, the rollers just stopped crushing the grain. The roller the drill attached to kept spinning, but the other one didn't, and no grain was actually being pulled through. I took off the drill and tried the hand-crank, which eventually worked (though it took a while, it was still free-spinning without crushing for a while). But it crapped out a few times again after that. I couldn't figure out what was causing it to stop actually pulling the grain through. Has anyone seen anything like this before?
So, my 4 pounds of Pilsen went through fine yesterday, but I had some trouble with the 7 pounds of wheat. I had it hooked up to my corded Ryobi drill, and after going through about a pound of it, the rollers just stopped crushing the grain. The roller the drill attached to kept spinning, but the other one didn't, and no grain was actually being pulled through. I took off the drill and tried the hand-crank, which eventually worked (though it took a while, it was still free-spinning without crushing for a while). But it crapped out a few times again after that. I couldn't figure out what was causing it to stop actually pulling the grain through. Has anyone seen anything like this before?