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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I've been reading a bit on grain mills (electric) including with brand names. 
 A lot of the reader's 'feedback' makes the same warning as Bill.  Does that 
mean that most of us aren't going to properly adjust the darn 
things................

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--- On Tue, 12/2/08, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

> From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] grain mills
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 7:53 AM
> > > Get the ones with stones as the the burrs
> don't last too long.
> > 
> 
> If the burrs don't last long, the mill is not propertly
> adjusted or is not 
> being used properly.  I have a BlackHawk mill that has been
> in continuous use 
> for nearly 100 years with the original burrs and they are
> fine.  Before I got it 
> (from my grandfather) it was being run with an electric
> motor and not only 
> ground the kitchen corn meal but also chicken and hog feed
> at times.  It has the 
> hand crank now.
> 
> I also have one of those cheapie Corona mills with both
> metal burrs and 
> stones.  The stones grind very fine flour, but the burrs
> (flat on the Corona, 
> conical on the Blackhawk) have been used for cornmeal and
> masa and malt for 30 
> years and are indistinguishable from new ones.
> 
> Properly adjusted burrs, like properly dressed mill stones
> and quern stones, 
> shear off little flakes of corn and the burrs never touch
> one another.
> 
> 
> James
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