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Got my mill, hopper, and base put together and thought I'd share some pics. I borrowed ideas from here and the internet:

Yes - it’s an Anvil Foundry and I use my RipTide pump and a brew bag with a false bottom. Guess time to experiment.

Thanks for the replies. I purposely didn't post the gap but the first is at 0.025" and the second at 0.035". I think it's hard to judge milled grain with a photo. In person there was lots of power in the bottom of the bucket for the smaller gap. I milled this with my new Crankandstein 3GT (all...

Need help determining mill gap setting (I use an all-in-one brewer) - Thanks First crush: Second setting:

I built the base and hopper for this mill. It includes the gear motor shown so no pulleys and belts required. It is wired to be able to run forward and reverse. I'm located in the SW burbs of Chicago. Thanks Mike

I have a Bertello oven and pretty new to these Neopolitan pizzas. Everyone loves them but after proofing my dough balls they seem to flatten out instead of rise. Any help appreciated. I’m using Vito’s single fermentation recipe. I mostly use all-purpose flour. Tried 00 once and everyone...

I never boiled the tomato sauce in it yet. I have only blanched and boiled the cans in it.

Yeah, but, I blanched a couple batches of tomatoes and seems the stainless is fairly easy to cleanup.

I have an Anvil Foundry 10.5 gal. (I have two of them) and with a false bottom I can fit 14 quart bottles in easily. I did this last year too. Works great. We have so many tomatoes this year. I'd say 2x to 3x times normal. I ordered a tomato strainer to try to make sauce instead of can whole...

You could spend a few days reading through this 50 page thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/anvil-foundry-all-grain-brewing-system.666090/page-50

I have been using a false bottom and bag for several brews now. I see many are having success using the bag only without a false bottom. Even if the bag can take it doesn't this have an ill effect on recirculation?

Just wanted to give out a shout to Don at Crankandstein. He answered my call yesterday (Saturday) at around 7or 8 in the evening and he took the time to talk through my possible issues. Would buy from him again in an eye blink!

SUCCESS!!! Put my Makita cordless on it and it will run 0.025" even with the hopper filled from a dead stop! But, @GoeHaarden is correct the mill-drill-base are starting to hop around badly. So glad - thanks for all the help. My setup will be much simpler now with a removable drill. Thanks Mike

I need to put the mill on another board so I have support for a drill. My be able to sneak a little more time to work on this today.

When the 3GT would run on my gear motor it would really gulp the grain even at 160 rpm. Reminds me of a positive displacement pump - what you feed it must go through since all rollers are geared together. Other pumps have leakage so they don't get overloaded - like my old Barley Crusher. That...

Think I'll give the drill some thought. There is a HF couple miles from me and I bought that drill to use for mixing thinset for a big tile job in our bathroom. It was strange but it would loose variable speed control and only run on high when it was warmed up. I exchanged it and the second one...

OMG - could it be? I looked at the torque rating of my Makita 18v hand drill and it is about 10 times my gear motor??? That gear motor is listed at 6.6 n-m!

@GoeHaarden Can you give me the specs on that DeWalt drill (amps?)? What speed do you run it? I just put my 3GT with my gear motor together today. I'm a very unhappy guy right now. I ran my BarleyCrusher for about 17 years with a 1/2 HP 325 rpm gear motor. I could even start it with the...

Appreciate the details. Have to laugh, I’m an engineer and spend too much time thinking of details. Your simplistic approach to this is excellent! mike

@GoeHaarden thanks for sharing. My current mill has the traditional tapered sides that I built from wood. I saw a hopper design like yours on YouTube with a big water bottle. He has some fancy cut clear acrylic on top but he said his design failed because he used a weak threaded coupling design...