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Original Grain Mill
This is my motorized Corona Mill, I get a pretty good crush with this although it took some getting use to. It has served me well, but it does have some short-comings. I'm not completely unhappy with the Corona mill, but I'm looking for something I can easily mount over a 5 gallon bucket and attach a large hopper to. That way I can weigh out all my grain, throw it in the hopper and crush it all at once. Right now I have to do it 2 pounds at a time, sometimes I loose count. Hmmm, was that 4 pounds or 6 pounds??? I realize I could probably rig something up with the Corona, but the way the milled grain comes out of it is not really conducive to putting a hopper below it.
New Grain Mill
Well, now I have a new mill, it's a CrankandStein mill, an adjustable two-roller model (model# CGM-2A). I built a hopper to attach it to. The inside looks like this. I also built an additional hopper that sits on top to give me more capacity. Without the additional hopper I can get about 9 pounds in the mill. I'm sure I can get at least five more pounds in the extra hopper. I ran 8 pounds of grain through it on a test run in under a minute. I'll update this as I use the mill more. So far it seems pretty good. Update: I've been using the mill for a while now and it performs very well. The only tricky thing about it, is that sometimes it has trouble starting to crush the grains. What I mean is, if I fill the hopper up with grain and start the drill, the rollers sometimes just spin without grabbing the grains and crushing them. I don't know whether this is a result of my hopper design or not. But the easy way around this is to drop a handful of grain in the empty hopper and use a pair of pliers to manually turn the roller. As soon as you start to turn it grabs the grain. Once it picks up the grain you're good to go. I then just fill up the hopper and start milling without any other problems. This doesn't happen all the time, but I just do the manual start thing anyway just to be safe.
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