Do coffee grinder kits exist?
- kajer
- Posts: 200
- Joined: 11 years ago
I'd be very interested to see a kit or frame based around readily accessible burrs.
Has anyone seen or heard of any high end style grinders being offered in kit form? I'd be more than interested to provide my own motor and burrs to a pre-fabed frame with good bearings/bushings and a stable axle. Even if the kit came with burrs, if the kit was belt drive, almost anyone can go find their own motor to do the job, and tolerances would be less of an issue.
If anyone has some cad designs, maybe we can have some units made up in a group buy format?
Seeing some of the people here with machine shop access makes me jealous. :(
Has anyone seen or heard of any high end style grinders being offered in kit form? I'd be more than interested to provide my own motor and burrs to a pre-fabed frame with good bearings/bushings and a stable axle. Even if the kit came with burrs, if the kit was belt drive, almost anyone can go find their own motor to do the job, and tolerances would be less of an issue.
If anyone has some cad designs, maybe we can have some units made up in a group buy format?
Seeing some of the people here with machine shop access makes me jealous. :(
- UltramaticOrange
- Posts: 655
- Joined: 12 years ago
I've been on-again/off-again thinking about something like this based on t-slotted extruded aluminium. I always get hung up on the grind adjustment.
If your tiny coffee is so great, then why don't you drink more of it?
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- Joined: 12 years ago
I don't know if they exist or not, but a good starting platform in my opinion, might be a rc helicopter. I fly them in my other hobby and the gearing and shaft with bearings and all are right there. Depending on the size shaft you would need, be it a 8mm, 10 or 12mm with different gearing choices for the pinion gear. It would almost certainly have to be a hand cranked device as the real helicopters turn some pretty fast head speeds. I don't have the creative juices within me, but turned upside down, this might make a platform. With a carbon fiber frame.
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