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Darel Matthews
New Member
Username: Darel
Post Number: 15
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 04:03 pm: | 
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I got a JSP double-adjusting roller mill for Xmas and I am trying to fine-tune my crush. I will try to post four pictures, in order, 1-4. The first one is the factory setting, which the instructions say is the recommended .045" spacing, however this just looks like flour to me. Please let me know which setting (1,2,3,4, or somewhere in between) I should set my mill at. I personally think #2 looks the best but still a little floury, #3 has all the kernels just about broken in half. I would like opinions from guys with more experience though.
FWIW this is all equal amounts of Maris Otter, crushed into a bucket and shaken just once, just enough to cover the bottom and not pile up.
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jeff wright
Member
Username: Barly
Post Number: 125
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 05:57 pm: |
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Darel,
the first one looks good to me. Lots of whole husks, and I believe this will give good efficiency.
brew on,
jeff |
Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 4478
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 08:13 pm: |
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What Jeff said. |
Scott Manning
Member
Username: Liquidbreaddiet
Post Number: 177
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 06:43 pm: |
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i have a jsp mill that is not adjustable and it looks exactly like number 1 - has worked great for me so far!!! |
Vance Barnes
Senior Member
Username: Vancebarnes
Post Number: 2083
Registered: 03-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 10:55 pm: |
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I say #1 as well. Funny though, when I set my Valley Mill to .045 the crush looks more like # 2 or 3.
I took Dan up on his offer of screening some samples recently and found that the .045 setting was very coarse. I re-inforced the legs on my MT and used a finer grind on Friday and everything worked fine. |
Phil Lapp
Junior Member
Username: Phil_lapp
Post Number: 27
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 11:51 am: |
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#1 looks closest to what I get with my JSP. |
Dan Listermann
Senior Member
Username: Listermann
Post Number: 2379
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 02:32 pm: |
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Thanks for bringing that up, Vance. The offer to screen grist samples for free still stands for the moment. Just send me about 2 oz of your grist and I will put it through my seives and let you know what they look like. Remember to collect the samples as they fall out of the rollers. Do not collect them from a pile, grist stratifies very quickly and this will throw the data way off.
Dan
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Pascal Desbiens
New Member
Username: Aumaitrebrasseur
Post Number: 17
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 03:24 pm: |
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My Valley Mill gives me the same grist as the first picture too... I love this mill! Mine is mounted with an old washing machine engine and goes at 300 RPM. |
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