Recent content by smooreland

Good idea. I'll have to try that for my next build. Thanks.

Read up quite a bit on it beforehand, believe me. I found it a bit too cumbersome to leave it unsoldered. It really comes down to personal preference since either way works. If you clean the manifold directly after use, it's not hard to clean. When left dirty, just soak the manifold in a...

Eh, why wait for tomorrow. Needs a bit of a soak, but you get the idea of how much deburring went into this project. And then I leave it dirty.... Not many batches yet, but nothing stuck either. Hope this helps.

Personally, I used a combination of a small file kit from Home Depot in conjunction with a set of old dental tools I picked up at an antique store. The dental tools worked the best at deburring slots, but were all broken in the process. Nothing seemed ideal, and I just had to bear through it...

Sure thing, but I do want to do a few things before that. Plan to run a couple buckets of feed corn from the farm through it like you suggested. I'll throw up a vid of the grind when I get my order in. Thanks for the info.

You're right Rico. You'd really have to like burr mills to pay for one of these new. No way I'd pay that much. It does all come down to dialing in what you've got on hand and getting the efficiencies you want. Unless you like grinding rocks a lot. By the way Rico, were you serious about...

Wolframite might as well be Latin to me as well. Doing the research to find out about Quaker City Mills kept returning research paper pdf's where they referred to "Ground sample to x fineness in Quaker City Mill". Wolframite was one of the minerals being ground up in one of them. Hell, that...

Turns out I don't have an antique, which is good in a lot of ways. (One of them being I can buy new burr plates for most likely an obscene amount.) http://www.qcgsys.com/prod.htm My mill doesn't have the patent #'s and dates on the stem like the antiques. For some reason, these...

I've been meaning to mention this to satisfy y'alls curiosity: The outside burr plate of this beauty does indeed wobble or "float". The inside burr plate is bolted to the cast body and the outside burr plate is not fixed rigidly to the shaft. (Again, more pics coming.) Thought that might...

I do understand about the whole patina over time argument and I welcome the caution. Antiques should be left alone as to their fit and finish. That is the problem right there though. I won't be leaving this thing alone to gather time for theoretical value as an antique. I'll be using it as...

Apologies if that seemed like boasting. Just very happy about my "Deal Day." I do have one question for you all. What is the best method for cleaning this beast up and removing the rust while keeping things "Food Grade"? The 2 bucket solution seems about the best stand I could make for...

Been one of those days where you can honestly call yourself a Lucky Bastard and thought I'd share the joy. Here's the story, (long post, sorry): I'm an amateur vintner of Country Wines and found that I have a large hole in my pipeline with nothing to draft off of, (lost 6gal of Pear to...