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turbo huh? I like it!

so my dad had a piece of aluminum laying around

we drilled it out for mounting the motor

I screwed down a mounting block for the motor

and bolted the motor onto the mounting brackets and screwed that onto the mounting block

we were concerned about the rpm's on the motor, so we measured the circumference of the flywheel and the shaft on the motor, the flywheel was 36 inches and the shaft was 3 so we had a 12 to 1 ratio, as long as the motor kept under 840 rpm we were fine with the mill. We mocked up where the mill was going to sit and used a piece of wire to mock up the belt, we marked the length and used a tape measure to figure out we needed a 46 inch inside diameter belt, since they use outside diameter we picked up a 47 inch belt

I mounted the belt

and went and grabbed my solar generator

I dumped some wheat berries into the hopper

and plugged in the motor

http://www.youtube.c....._lXfhNsj2E

10 minutes later, I had flour

couple of notes, we blew the fuse in the lighter plug, we had a cheap one that only had a 5 amp fuse and we had to go up to a 20 amp to keep it from blowing, my father had a heavier duty plug and had no issues with that.

We are probably going to swap out the 3 way switch with a regular switch, when grinding we easily maintain under the 70 rpm.

Basically it's just half turning the plates, grinding, half turning again, anything more than that and the grinder bogs down

You can use any 12v source for a power supply to power it, we were using a battery jumper that has a 12v plug to test it when we were hooking it up

now to use the flour, I dumped it into a pan

and put some water, salt, honey and butter in a saucepan

I dumped it onto the flour and kneaded well

I buttered up a bread pan and set the dough into it

I put a pan of water into the oven on 200 and set the dough above to do a quick proof

will post the results later, peace