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Making Coffee now. New ones added.

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Made a couple coffee grinders, used the innards of a plastic grinder in the tall one the one with the wheel works better than you`d think.
Bought a couple on line also and will post as they arrive. :)

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Mmmm can smell the coffee from here.... :D those old coffee grinders always remind me of Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves.
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Thanks buddy, i think i need to build a bigger building to put all this stuff.
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I've actually been savin' up for a new building. Maybe move my shop into it and use the old one for storage. I don't own a coffee grinder but Esperanza bought a sack of roasted 1850 beans (by mistake) so I need one. How does that one with the wheel work? Think I could build one like that.
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Lenn, I am curious about the wheel grinder as well. First time I have seen one. Cool new line of interest. 😎
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Thanks guys, yep the wheel one works real good, surprised me. :)
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There are a lot of options on the wheel one, this one has a three inch dia. wheel that is 1/2 inch thick and the trough is 3/4 inch wide.
You can make it any size ya want, after making this one i would lay the wheel on the center board and cut out the radius the same as the wheel then it would crush on the ends also.
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I like the wheel one especially because it is so tedious picking the coffee out of the tire treads and off the driveway . . . . :wink:
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Pretty cool. Now you just need an old percolator type coffee pot that can sit on top of a wood stove. If the electricity goes out, no big deal.
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Thanks guys, i just happen to have a two cup percolator coming. :)
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Very nice! That burr must have been a bear to cut.
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Thanks Kirk, yep that was tricky i don`t have any way of cutting a taper other than turning both feeds at the same time and getting them to match was time consuming . :)
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Put a base board and painted the handle on the big one and made a bigger trough model out of walnut.

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I use a big grain grinder for the beans at the house, but I think for the boat I will make a wheeliegig like yours . . . thanks
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Thanks Grizz, the later has a four inch wheel and is 1 inch wide. :)
I curved the ends to match the wheel also, haven`t tried it yet as it`s drying.
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Pitchy wrote: Fri Jan 03, 2020 12:03 pm Thanks Grizz, the later has a four inch wheel and is 1 inch wide. :)
I curved the ends to match the wheel also, haven`t tried it yet as it`s drying.
looks perfect for cranking up the brew for the night watch . . . .
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Here ya go Grizz, the perfect boat coffee maker.
It`s a Costa Rica coffee maker, ya put a table spoon of coffee in it and pour a hot cup of water in and ya got coffee.
Used a sock for the sock.
Works good. :)

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All these wonderful coffee grinders made by Pitchy have reminded me about the Sharps Rifles that had coffee grinders in the stock, they were, I have read, supposed to stop the damage to stocks from being used to grind beans, or were they made because Coffee is IMPORTANT.... :wink:
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Cool beans, are ya sure that hasn`t been converted to a repeater. :lol:
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Got this nice grinder made in Germany yesterday. :)

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When my Dad was young, he and his older brother would go fishing and camp out. Uncle Homer was 16 years older than Dad. Dad remembers Homer using the butt of a pistol to crush coffee beans for use in a percolator. He had some sort of wood board with a carved channel to crush the beans on and then funnel them into the percolator. Probably home made. Lots of things were back in the 1930s. Dad made a coffee cup out of an old tin can and some twisted baling wire a few years ago just to show us what the coffee cups looked like. Simple and cheap, as well as a great way to use something that would otherwise have just filled up the trash pit. Odds and ends of baling wire were often twisted together to make handles for stuff.
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Pitchy wrote: Thu Jan 02, 2020 6:44 pm This one was a job to make.
And that's why we had YOU do it! :wink:

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Thanks fellers, cool story piller. 8)
I`m finishing up a folding model pour through model as we speak.
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Was going pretty good today until this.

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Lenn, so sorry! Nothing like a hidden nail to ruin a man's day!
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Thanks Bill, they didn`t show in the board, must of cut them off in the sawmill.
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Pitchy wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2020 4:26 pm Here ya go Grizz, the perfect boat coffee maker.
It`s a Costa Rica coffee maker, ya put a table spoon of coffee in it and pour a hot cup of water in and ya got coffee.
Used a sock for the sock.
Works good. :)

I'll think this one over. You have no idea how rediculously STINKY my socks are at the end of the trip when I finally get out of them!!! :lol:
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
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This is pretty close to what the one Dad made looked like. Simple and effective.
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That`s pretty cool piller. 8)
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Of coarse a person has to get fancy. :)

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