corona mill mods

[BlackJaqueJanaviac]

I was reading through a horribly long thread on ugly corona mill set ups. I saw some pictures of mills with washers placed between the clamps for the milling plates. I read the descriptions and could not figure out why people were doing this.

It would seem that these washers would only serve to make for a coarser grind, yet most of the advice was to grind it as fine as you are willing to.

What's up with the washers? What problem do they fix?

 

[kpr121]

It keeps the spacing the same from left to right on the grinding wheel, giving a more consistant crush. My (unmodded) corona will spit out more flour on one side while sending whole grains to the other. I need to look into the washer idea, so I get my efficiencies up into the 80s.

 

[Revvy]

You know, it's explained quite thoroughly in that thread dontjaknow....

 

[heyjaffy]

Mine didn't need the washers, it had enough adjustability without. I gather from the ugly junk thread that some models are slighly different and manufacturing tolerances are loose.

 

[rekoob]

you might be thinking of the wrong spot or maybe not.
I put washers on the sides, where the wing nuts are to hold the front part on. with out the washers the wing nuts start pulling through.
there are a few different fix's for whatever problem you might have, as stated above they can be pretty out of wack or they can come pretty close to right. my plates don't contact flush but there is enough play in the outside one to level the plate when the grain starts to come through, there is a few different issues and you really need to just read the complete thread so we don't have two or three threads addressing the same issue. it is a pretty large thread but well worth the read.

 

[wilserbrewer]

I never needed any washers myself, and havent figured why others are using them...unless the grind is so fine that the washers provide adjustment not possible w/ the mill as it sits??? Using and tuning a Corona mill is like tuning an engine as they are not all the same. It takes a bit of intuition depending on what you experience. All the different things people have done are just merely there experiences and do not apply without the need...

 

[BlackJaqueJanaviac]

Sorry to bother you fellas. But reading a thread that's as long as War & Peace just ain't humane. At least War & Peace was edited before publication.

I don't mind a lot of reading when something is chock full of great information. I'm not knocking that thread - it was entertaining. But I didn't see the harm in calling out one question that was a sort of off-topic drift from the original purpose of the thread.

 

[BlackJaqueJanaviac]

Kpr121,

Thanks for the answer - as brief as it was it was all I needed.

 

[kpr121]

No prob. I got about half way through that thread and gave up. It would be cool if there were wikis at the beginning of every thread that could be updated with important information, an outline or table of contents if you will. Slic k dea lz comes to mind.