[SEL] Wow ! Quite a find.

[Jerry Evans]

At 06:00 PM 21/05/2010, you wrote:

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>Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 15:56:23 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Ron Frost <ron217_2000 at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [SEL] Wow ! Quite a find.
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>Jerry, At the risk of sounding stupid, What is a roller mill's product?


Hi Ron,
         No, you do not sound stupid. I'm no expert on those machines 
either but are they not beautiful?

         Basically a Roller Mill crushes and grinds wheat (and other grains 
like corn) to make meal. I'm not too sure if stone or burr mills were then 
used to get a finer meal (flour). The really old water wheel powered mills 
had two counter rotating stone discs (wheels) which ground wheat into a 
very fine smooth meal (flour).

         There are many guys on this list far more clued up than me on the 
subject - how about a few explanations - it's not "Off Topic" if the whole 
thing was powered by an internal combustion engine :-)




Keep the revs up (or down)
Jerry Evans
Near Johannesburg in Sunny South Africa.
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