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As I am using more grain in my brews, I finally grabbed a grinder.  Since I am on a budget, for now I am using a modified version of this Victoria hand grinder.

I did make a couple of modifications to make it a little more suitable for our uses. First, to make sure we have a coarse enough grain, I spaced the grinding head support out with a couple washers. This will let us open it up for coarse grinds instead of being clamped down tight for grinding flour.  The next thing that I noticed, once I had the spacing opened up it didn't seem to stay open.  What I found is this.  the adjustment is done by screwing in the single thumbscrew, which presses in on the shaft.   Well, inside the bore where the shaft seats is a ball bearing held in by a snapring.  This snapring is tight enough that when you back the thumbscrew off it doesnt open the grind plates at all.   Maybe with grain in there it would be different but I am not sure.  To be safe I removed the snapring, to make sure that my grind gets coarser when I need it to

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Next, so I wasn't hand grinding everything we took the handle retainer thumbscrew out and replaced it with a regular hex-head bolt, locked in place with a nut. This allows us to use a drill with socket attachment to turn the grinder. If you have the same grinder from the link above you just need a 5/16 bolt and nut for this.