12/01/06, 09:40 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Central WV
Posts: 5,390
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Originally Posted by Jenn
Retsel use in electric mode since trial manual convinced us it took more calories than produced- had we run out of electric would've had to rig it to a bicycle or waterwheel or something. Have stone and steel- don't EVER grind corn with the stone!
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Jenn, I use mine in electric mode and although I purchased the crank handle for manual mode I've not yet tried it out.
I'm curious - did you take the mill apart and remove some of the gear things in there? We got a booklet/pamphlet with ours that said if you didn't do that then you could still grind manually but it would be a lot more difficult as you'd be turning not only the burrs or stones but also the motor.
I'm gonna be bummed if you did disconnect the motor and it was still that much work.
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