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The bottom roller on my grain mill bound up and I have a quick fix and later hopefully a semi-permanent repair.
This is on a 3 roller Malt Muncher, which gave me no problems for over 100 batches (almost 2000#s of grain). The roller bound up a bit a couple batches ago, and then bound up so tight as to make mill inoperable. I took it apart and pried off bearing cover to find bearings bound up with grain residue. I cleaned out with compressed air and spray starting either, put in some food grade silicon oil and put caps back on bearings. Now the mill functions fine, but will likely clog again at some point.
I think this could happen with any mill that has a free wheeling roller.
I bought some new bearings which I have yet to install, as it will require some time and getting out the torch to heat rollers to extract the old ones. The new bearings I got have a rubber seal instead of metal, and are of know manufacturer, costing $8 each instead of 10 for $12 price for no name chinees bearings like the manufacturer used.
When/if I successfully replace the bearings, I'll update post with report. I know I can't be the only person this has happened to.
This is on a 3 roller Malt Muncher, which gave me no problems for over 100 batches (almost 2000#s of grain). The roller bound up a bit a couple batches ago, and then bound up so tight as to make mill inoperable. I took it apart and pried off bearing cover to find bearings bound up with grain residue. I cleaned out with compressed air and spray starting either, put in some food grade silicon oil and put caps back on bearings. Now the mill functions fine, but will likely clog again at some point.
I think this could happen with any mill that has a free wheeling roller.
I bought some new bearings which I have yet to install, as it will require some time and getting out the torch to heat rollers to extract the old ones. The new bearings I got have a rubber seal instead of metal, and are of know manufacturer, costing $8 each instead of 10 for $12 price for no name chinees bearings like the manufacturer used.
When/if I successfully replace the bearings, I'll update post with report. I know I can't be the only person this has happened to.
