[SEL] Wow ! Quite a find.

[Dave Merchant]

Actually, I was hoping it would be Rick Rowlands saying he had a rolling mill.

The grain machinery is cool though...there are a couple working antique
flour mills near here, one is yuppie commercial with a water wheel,
the other is a state park with a fairly big steam engine.

Dave Merchant


At 01:11 PM 5/21/2010, Jerry Evans wrote:
>At 06:00 PM 21/05/2010, you wrote:
>
> >Message: 8
> >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.
> >To: The SEL email discussion list <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
> >Message-ID: <973457.95379.qm at web110216.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> >
> >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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