Corona mill woes

[LordEoin]

Got a Corona mill yesterday, the hopper took a bit of manipulation with a pliers but eventually fit nice and tight.
but it's missing the spacers off the clamp.
Will I get away with  lobbing a couple of oversize nuts in there? and if so, how thick?

[St. Fursey]

I don't think you need spacers. The middle screw is for adjusting coarseness. The mystery part is a shroud to direct grain downwards and stop crushed grain from flying up in the air. To slots over the top half of the grinding wheel

[Shanna]

Got a Corona mill yesterday, the hopper took a bit of manipulation with a pliers but eventually fit nice and tight.
but it's missing the spacers off the clamp.
Will I get away with  lobbing a couple of oversize nuts in there? and if so, how thick?


Also, it came with this odd piece that doesn't seem to fit anywhere. Can anyone identify it?

Don't use nuts as spacers, get yourself a couple of pairs of washers and use those instead.

The second part is actually a part of a cover from the mill. Look closely at it is and your will see a couple indentations that allow you to fit it to the top part of the mill. See the following image http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31lzvH0s7zL.jpg for details.

I wonder will you try and use a drill with this? This would involve removing the handle and instead adding an hex nut in its place. You then use a drill with a matching attachment to drive the mill.

Shanna

[johnrm]

Supplied by Homebrewwest?
Not the first one I believe.

I believe the packaging hints at a spacer which does not come in the box.

I have an original one.
I measure 34mm 'legs' on mine (no issues)

If the les are the same as above...
The issue could be a reduced depth in the recess for the Axle on newer models - I measure approx 10mm to the ball bearing.
The Axle might be longer on newer models - I measure approx 38mm from grinding face to axle (touches ball bearing)

[Greg2013]

Might be of some interest to you.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Corona-Mill-Mods-for-All-Grain-Brewing/

[LordEoin]

christ, ye were busy! 2 replies in the little bit it took me to figure out the guard and remove the pics
Yes John it seems to be different mills in the box and on the box.
i tried it without spacers and it had only 1 setting - Flour!
So now i have a couple of nuts and washers in there and it's working a treat. You can actually get some pretty fine tuning on it very quickly.
Which will be handy for switching between different size grains


I'm pretty chuffed with it now. It grinds well, leaving very few whole grains but not reducing it all down to flour. mostly nice empty hulls and gritty little chunks
almost impossible to get a good pic, but anyway


Thanks folks

[LordEoin]

Thanks Greg. I saw that post a while ago. It was actually what made me go for a corona mill instead of forking out a load on a roller

[Covey]

a major flaw, is when its attached to the counter you can't put a bucket under it only a tray. To hack it  I just got a piece of wood and drill it into the top of a bucket to attached it. I getting pretty tired of going through drills through. I would guess that the roller millers are a lot easier on the drills

[johnrm]

Buy a good drill once.

[derfel]

I had the same problem - I queried it with the supplier and they told me none of the others in stock had spacers so that was how they were supposed to be!

I bought a packet of M8 washers (I reckon M6 would do but M8 was what they had in the shop) in the local co-op for €1.50 and now the mill is working perfectly - and the adjustment works too.

[LordEoin]

Yeah, I think it needs some kind of spacer alright.
Weird that they would stop supplying them as standard.
It left flimsy without the spacer, but nice and solid with it

[Covey]

Buy a good drill once.

Why would i want to ruin a Good drill?

[johnrm]

@Covey, Ciderhead uses one of these mills with a good drill and swears by it.
Cheap drills will burn out. They are cheap for a reason.
That said, I have a cheap drill - E15 in B and Q - quick gives me no trouble on a Crankandstein 2D, not used it on the Corona, must go to hardware store for a bolt to test the corona.

[LordEoin]

'Buy a good tool once', as they say.

[LordEoin]

Cheap battery drills are fine. The cheap batteries that come with them suck though.