After about four years, my two-roller Barley Crusher grain mill appears to be broken, but for the life of me I cannot figure it out. Two brews ago, the rollers started spinning as if there was no grain in it, even with a full hopper. Short story on this is that when set to the right gap, it appears the rollers wouldn't grip the grain. (BTW, reversing the drill didn't work.) So I manually set the gap on the fly, adjusting it manually while the rollers were spinning to get any sort of crush. And the crush was really bad, with a good chunk of the grains not even getting milled. Afterwards I went into the roller box, and tried to adjust them properly, locked them down and did a test run. It did a pound or so, and appeared to run fine.
Well, that didn't last long, and the crush i did last week was really bad, and took about an hour+ to accomplish. So I broke down and spent the bucks and am purchasing the Blichmann Mill. (I have been intending to buy it anyways, but this forced the issue.)
Problem is, it looks like the Blichmann's are out for at least a month, and would really like to fix my BC Mill instead of going to my LHBS to get it done.
Thing is, these mills are really pretty simple...Roller A, which is attached to the power source. Roller B which you set the gap with. Grains go between the two. Get crushed. That's it.
Any ideas on fixing this???
Well, that didn't last long, and the crush i did last week was really bad, and took about an hour+ to accomplish. So I broke down and spent the bucks and am purchasing the Blichmann Mill. (I have been intending to buy it anyways, but this forced the issue.)
Problem is, it looks like the Blichmann's are out for at least a month, and would really like to fix my BC Mill instead of going to my LHBS to get it done.
Thing is, these mills are really pretty simple...Roller A, which is attached to the power source. Roller B which you set the gap with. Grains go between the two. Get crushed. That's it.
Any ideas on fixing this???
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