Powered Grain Mills?

[Crut]

mine, barley crusher with 7lb hopper and an old 1/6hp motor my friend gave me. All custom fab wok done by me, as you can tell


Crut

[dresselbrew]

Looks good to me Crut. Is that your brew cat in the bottom picture?

[BadRock]

One of these days I'm going to make mine work like Cruts. Til' then, I got the cordless drill on the high torque/low speed setting, works great!

[Crut]

Looks good to me Crut. Is that your brew cat in the bottom picture?

Yep, she likes to check out anything and everything I may be doing inside on a brew day. I give her a little kitty cousin and she freaks out. I figure if I get to have fun on brew days, she should too

One of these days I'm going to make mine work like Cruts. Til' then, I got the cordless drill on the high torque/low speed setting, works great!

With all those kick ass toys at your place, i know theres gotta be a way to do it. It was a lot simpler than I though. A trip to the hardware for some pulleys, a belt, a brass coupler, and a couple longer bolts for the BC and I was off and runnin. The one thing I might redo on it is put a longer cord on it. Its only like 4 ft long, so your pretty limited on where you can crush.
-Crut

[Dirk McLargeHuge]

Looks good to me Crut. Is that your brew cat in the bottom picture?

Yep, she likes to check out anything and everything I may be doing inside on a brew day. I give her a little kitty cousin and she freaks out. I figure if I get to have fun on brew days, she should too

Maybe you should use the kitty cousin to train her to operate the grain mill. I'm thinking of adopting children to run mine. . .

[baltobrewer]

Hey crut, with the size of the mill pulley, you must be spinning that mill at about 800 rpms......how fast does it turn?

[Crut]

Hey crut, with the size of the mill pulley, you must be spinning that mill at about 800 rpms......how fast does it turn?

to tell you the truth, im not sure. Its fast I know that though. I never got around to calc'ing out the reduction speed.
I havnt noticed any problems with the grind on it. Im still rolling it with the factory setting. I will soon adjust it a little bit narrower.
If i did the calcs in my head its prob about 800, i might go larger mill wheel if i need to, but seems to be working fine.
-Crut

[baltobrewer]

hey as long as you get a good crush, who cares, right? good to know a smaller pulley can work....