Homemade stone mill idea

[Wheel Gun]

Okay. A little update. I've now got a working flour mill. I'm working on a webpage that will provide all the details, but here are some early photos. For a project recap, I wanted to see if I could make a millstone for processing the sizable wheat stores in my preps. This required a lot of research and reading on the topic. It also required quite a bit of testing. But, I successfully converted a box of ten limestone flooring tiles into a pretty cool millstone. This morning, I ground hard white wheat berries into a couple of cups of flour. The missus is going to make some rolls with the flour to see how it tastes.

 

[riper1]

WoW whats your investment in this stone mill? let us know how well its working, it could save BB about a cool thousand.

 

[Wheel Gun]

WoW whats your investment in this stone mill? let us know how well its working, it could save BB about a cool thousand.

My box of tile was $85. I think I had all the cutting tools. No, wait. I bought a new set of diamond hole cutters on ebay for $15. But as for cost of materials, less than a hundred.

 

[riper1]

nice let us know when you get your web page up and going

 

[Wheel Gun]

Here's the webpage, in case someone would like to make themselves one of these. There's also a small video of my mill at work.

http://www.teamturpin.org/house/millstone.htm

 

[BadgeBunny]

Oh WOW Very, very, very cool EdmondMember!! riper1 is right ... I might need to try this as I was JUST talking to GC today about buying a mill so we could crack our own scratch ...

 

[EFsDad]

Okay, I went to your sight and I like what I see. A couple of questions please:

1. Why did you glue them together? Do you really only need 2 stones but need heft and weight so glued them?

2. How did you make them round in the first place? Masonry grinder wheel?

Thanks!

 

[Wheel Gun]

See my (generally worthless) answers below:

Okay, I went to your sight and I like what I see. A couple of questions please:

1. Why did you glue them together? Do you really only need 2 stones but need heft and weight so glued them?

These things have to be heavy to mash up the grain. I actually wish mine was little heavier, as more weight would let me feed it more kernels at a time. I think you'd have to glue individual tiles together. The finished product needs a single stone on top and one on the bottom. I glued six tiles together for the runner stone and four for the bedstone. My top stone weighs 25 lbs and the bottom weighs 15.

2. How did you make them round in the first place? Masonry grinder wheel?

The first, rough cuts were made with a circular saw and a diamond blade. I cleaned this up with an angle grinder with a masonry wheel.

 

[Wheel Gun]

Test loaf hot from the bread machine, made from home-ground hard white wheat. When it cools, we'll see how it tastes.



Update: Turkey sandwich for supper. While I'm not a huge whole wheat bread fan, the bread tasted as good as any store-bought ww bread.