[SEL] Burr mill info

[Ken Christison]

I keep getting the following message:

"The message's content type was not explicitly allowed"

Not sure if it is going through, or not.  Sorry if it did.

Ken







Hi Jerry,

The grain is fed in through the center of the stationary stone and is 
augered in by a worm on the
shaft.  The stones are dressed so the center portion has fairly deep 
grooves and tapers out to
nothing at the outer edge of the stone.  Centrifugal force carries the 
grain towards the rim and it
gradually gets ground down.  There are small "paddles" at the rim end of 
the runner stone that
carry the ground material to the spout that usually runs into a 
sifter/shaker that further separates
the ground grain.

The stones on the smaller mills that most of us have will run from 
500RPM for the 30 inch up to
1000RPM for the 12 inch stones, so yes, centrifugal force is part of the 
process.

Take care.

Ken