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 OK, I know that you know what condiments are, but I was just trying to make it clearer for that
guy down the road, who's not quite so bright as you!We call them condiment mills because although they are principally used to grind peppercorms in this country, they work equally well grinding
crystal salt as well as a range of other spices. The mills that we offer, below, feature ceramic milling mechanisms with stainless fittings and spindles. That means that they will not corrode
when used with aggressively corrosive materials such as salt and will wear for a long time, even when used with harder seeds and corms. We offer the spindle and mills as separate items,
as well as "kitted" (and there's no difference in price) simply because it is sometimes useful to be able to mix and match spindles and mills to match your production requirements without
necessarily having to find a complete mill kit with the required spindle length. This way you can keep a whole range of parts in stock at an economical cost.
The retaining "nut" at the top of the mill is a parallel-sided, chrome plated item which looks well enough as supplied, but is of this form so that, if the mood takes you, you can create a
fancy wooden finial to glue in place over the top nut to personalise your creation. Please note that the kits listed DO NOT include timber: A square blank of 2 inches square
and at least an inch longer than the nominal spindle length is required to complete the project.
We know from experience that it is often a challenge to find a collection of drills that match
the various diameters required to make a peppermill. Happily the guys at CeraStar know all about that problem and have solved it for you by supplying an economically-priced boxed set
of drills containing every drill you need to build one of our CeraStar mills. They may work with other mill kits too, but we wouldn't know about that! The drills included are:-
- Saw-tooth Forstner bit, 20 mm diameter x 90 mm long
- Saw-tooth Forstner bit, 30 mm diameter x 90 mm long
- Saw-tooth Forstner bit, 35 mm diameter x 90 mm long
- Auger Bit, 7 mm diameter x 200 mm long
- Auger Bit, 24 mm diameter x 200 mm long
The drills are manufactured using steels to ASTM1060 and ASTM1050 specs. so these are not like so many of the "cheap and cheerful" (as in "cheap and nasty" tat) sets which come out of the Orient.
(Assembly note: To cater for different markets, the instructions which are supplied with the
CeraStar mills refer to the use of a "spring and stirrup" to position the mill elements relative to each other: we are of the opinion that this is an unnecessary complication and affords no
functional advantage. The peppercorms themselves perform exactly the same function far more simply. For this reason we DO NOT supply the spring and stirrup and all reference to these items should be ignored.)
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