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It runs with 3,5Kg lead media

The wiper motor with the redution gear is very powerful :)

Another day i will post a video of it!

 

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Hope u like!

Posted

It runs with 3,5Kg lead media

The wiper motor with the redution gear is very powerful :)

Another day i will post a video of it!

 

post-11355-0-78545400-1332184038_thumb.jpg

post-11355-0-01966200-1332183984_thumb.jpg

 

Hope u like!

 

Wowee! Looking beautiful, where'd you pick up the motor?

 

Cheers, Seb.

Posted

Don’t shoot me for telling you this.

 

But for optimal milling purposes.

 

The diameter of the jar & the interior jar length should be the same.

Or, at least, very near the same.

 

If so, the grinding media in the jar will cascade evenly.

 

Don’t get me wrong, yours will function, but not in an optimal fashion.

 

 

Posted

Don't shoot me for telling you this.

 

But for optimal milling purposes.

 

The diameter of the jar & the interior jar length should be the same.

Or, at least, very near the same.

 

If so, the grinding media in the jar will cascade evenly.

 

Don't get me wrong, yours will function, but not in an optimal fashion.

 

 

 

Thank you for the idea!

I will cut the end of the jar to make it shorter.

Posted

Wowee! Looking beautiful, where'd you pick up the motor?

 

Cheers, Seb.

 

I found it on a car scrap.

 

Thanks

Posted

Updates:

 

I've cutted the end of the jar to make it shorter:

 

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The working video:

 

:)

Posted

seconded, longer jars suit long cylindrical media or rods, my long jar with rods is as efficient as the shorter jar with balls but not the other way round, the weight of the rods makes up for the low height from which they fall, the lighter balls fall from a greater height and have greater energy in larger id jars.

 

dan.

Posted
Dan, rod mills are not good at the kind of milling we do. They are meant to crush materials such as rock and what not down to gravel and smaller pieces. By virtue of the design they do this more efficiently. At the same time they also resist producing fine powders.
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