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Hand-Cranked Granite Grain Mill

Its printed title: Kinematic Fabrication and Tribological Engineering of a Lithic Milling System for Soft Wheat Pastry Flour

A hand-cranked stone mill for fine pastry flour, built from Lausitz granodiorite or from Findlinge, the glacial boulders strewn across Brandenburg. It reckons a healthy adult manages up to 75 W at 50 to 60 turns a minute, sizes the stones at 300 to 500 mm and the crank at 250 to 300 mm, and explains dressing the furrows and why damaged starch matters. The units are metric, but its aim is pastry flour below 90 µm rather than everyday bread meal.

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FEASTING after the FALL
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  • 4 confirmed
  • 1 marked for safety
  • W11 confirmed Safety Dressing a stone releases respirable quartz (silicosis): cut wet, outdoors, face covered; a cracked stone (dull ring) sheds grit; first flour after a dressing goes to the hens
  • W45 confirmed Granite self-sharpens: quartz Mohs 7 cuts, feldspar 6 wears to expose it, biotite 2.5 to 3 pits and grips; Lausitz granodiorite at Demitz-Thumitz and Kamenz; Brandenburg Findlinge …
  • W46 confirmed Stones 300 to 500 mm, runner 20 to 50 kg; bedstone flat, runner slightly concave; eye gap 3 to 4 mm, rim near touching; harp of 8, 10 or 12 quarters with master, journeyman, …
  • W47 confirmed 75 W at 50 to 60 rpm, crank 250 to 300 mm at elbow height; flour under 38 °C; roller mills (1880s) above 60 °C and strip the germ; stone mills damage 6 to 9 % of the starch; a …

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Tools and their making Grain, flour and bread The kitchen and its dishes Berlin and Brandenburg

Its works cited 70

As the document lists them, unchecked. Sorted here by their addresses only, which says where a claim comes from, not whether it holds.

  • 17 journals, universities and public bodies
  • 5 document-sharing sites
  • 6 encyclopaedias
  • 2 forums, video and social sites
  • 9 blogs
  • 1 shop or maker
  • 30 other web pages
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