[Syrupmakers] excelsior mill

[Richard Harrison]

Bill,
      I see your point. An ounce of prevention IS worth a pound of cure. However, have you ever considered that the BIG roller is the more critical roller that needs to be grooved ? With the small rollers grooved, it would seem to me that the cane is being gripped by the feedroller, but allowed to slip by the smooth top roller. The first roller is gripping the cane and trying to push it past the smooth big roller-- when the big roller needs to do some pulling, too... I think it would work better if the big roller were grooved rather than the feed roller.
      Just my 2 cents worth....didn't cost you a dime!  LOL.
                                                     Richard

bill gunter <pastmaster123 at yahoo.com> wrote:
    Richard, 
   
  I have a #4 Golden New Model Mull Mill.  The large roller is slick.  The 2 small rollers have good grooves.  The mill will not take more than 2 large stalks of cane at a time,  If you try to put more than that in the mill at one time, it will start to slip, causing the mill to shake and the cane will not go through the mill as it should.  That can and will cause the cast gears to break.
   
  I have a horz. power mill that I plan to go through and replace bearings as needed that has like new grooves.  I really like the Golden Mull Mill and will leave it installed for a back up after I start to use the power mill this fall.
   
  My advice would be to have the roller re-grooved as I intend to do with my Mull Mill, and not take a chance of breaking something that is next to imposable to replace.  
   
  Just my .02 cents worth.
   
  Bill Gunter
  Perry, Florida  


    
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