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Are you fed up cranking that handle?
Does your Doris own one of these (or one like it)
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Then you too can power up your mill

first replace fuse with blown fuse, then when she says it dunt work pretend to change fuse. then tell her " sorry dearest, it's knackered"
You then rush out and buy her a new one for her birthday and sneek the old one into shed where you replace the fuse and remover the lower half.

You then turn it on it's side and secure it to a lump of best plywood and connect the beater drive to the driveshaft on your mill with a rubber coupling.
you can also replace the mixer's original speed control with a more variable version which gives you more control over the speed of it, instead of the 5 or 6 fixed speed the mixer has.
After cutting a hole beneath the mill for the grain to exit you should end up with summin like this
 

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I forgot the photo of the rubber coupling.
The torque produced through the gear ratio is staggering and can cope with all grains and if a small house happens to fall into the mill the motor wont even notice it.

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oh it works!! question is should I speed it up a bit?
It crushed about 5kgs in around 3 mins at about 1/3 throttle
 

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