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Post by johnmac » Sun Dec 17, 2006 6:29 pm

Three reasons for buying:

1, I may end up with some uncrushed grain by accident, at some point. (like buying online, after a few pints)

2, Uncrushed grain keeps fresh better than crushed.

3, Can't resist a bargain.
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Post by bitter_dave » Sun Dec 17, 2006 6:33 pm

johnmac wrote:1, I may end up with some uncrushed grain by accident, at some point. (like buying online, after a few pints)
I like that - preparing for future drunkeness :lol:
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Post by moorsd » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:39 am

Got an E-mail this morning...looks like we didn't get away with it lads :cry:
Thank you for your order ***** but there seems to be a problem with the price its come out at £0.93 each, The proper price for this is £13.99/Each and total order inc vat & dly is £24.08.
hmmmm now have to decide if I want it at the full price or continue to buy ready crushed malt????
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Post by bitter_dave » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:54 am

moorsd wrote:Got an E-mail this morning...looks like we didn't get away with it lads :cry:
Thank you for your order ***** but there seems to be a problem with the price its come out at £0.93 each, The proper price for this is £13.99/Each and total order inc vat & dly is £24.08.
hmmmm now have to decide if I want it at the full price or continue to buy ready crushed malt????
:cry:

Oh well, it was a bit too good to be true. I'm not sure I really want a grain mill that much at the moment. I've decided the only reason I would want to get one was if I was able to get hold of uncrushed grain really cheap, for example from a microbrewery.

I've not got an e-mail yet, so I'm not even sure my order went through though.
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Post by Calum » Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:19 am

£25 for a crusher still seems like a good price. The hb shop in Edinburgh sells a 25kg bag of uncrushed malt for £18. When you compare this against £1.30 per kg of the crushed stuff (thats £32.50 for 25kg). Therefore it would pay for itself within 2 bags.

The website mistake reminds me of the Argos problem when they were advertising 32" Plasma TV's for a fiver. Overnight they had orders for thousands of them. A bloke I know looks after the internet infrastructure at Argos and got called out overnight as one of the systems had filled up with all the orders. He had a look at the messages that were queuing up and thought to himself that there was obviously something wrong with selling a 32" TV for a fiver and alerted the business before the orders were actually processed. Anyway, Argos still had the PR disaster of contacting all the disgruntled people who had ordered multiple TV's :lol:
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Post by Orfy » Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:56 am

Yep I just rang them. No go.
They said they had one order for 50!!!
Come, own up. Who was going to put them on ebay?
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Post by bitter_dave » Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:00 pm

Orfy wrote:Yep I just rang them. No go.
Tey said they had one order for 50!!!
Come, own up. Who was going to put them on ebay?
Buying loads of them didn't even occur to me, which just goes to show why I would be rubbish at business :oops:
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Post by DRB » Mon Dec 18, 2006 1:22 pm

They phoned me this morning, to say the computer said NO :lol: .
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Post by deadlydes » Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:00 pm

Just wondering
did anyone buy one of these crushers?
is it any good?
how long does it take to crack 1kg?
do you think its possible to rig it to a drill?
Cheers
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Post by Andy » Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:54 pm

Looks like someone is reselling one on Ebay! (at a marked up price of course :roll: )

Claims a pound per minute crush rate....

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... &rd=1&rd=1

You could express interest in the item, ask the seller if it's possible to attach a drill (get him to try....) and then buy from t'interweb at cheaper price 8)



Edit: If you want a "larger" hopper then there's one on Ebay also

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Grain-Hopper-Roll ... dZViewItem

:lol: :lol:
Dan!
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Post by deadlydes » Thu Jan 04, 2007 3:14 pm

i was going to but that one on ebay a while back until i saw the cheaper version on here. i did email the guy and he said it was ok for grain cracking purposes.

nice hopper! :D
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DRB

Post by DRB » Thu Jan 04, 2007 3:19 pm

:lol:
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Post by Orfy » Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:04 pm

I wonder if it's the same person who tried to order 50 from PVR?
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Post by bitter_dave » Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:09 pm

I never heard from them, despite placing an order and getting a reference number; not that I'm bothered as I've decided I can't be ar$ed with crushing my own grain.

I'm guessing the person flogging them on ebay must have bought a few though, as an order for one comes to £24ish, including postage and vat etc., not really worth the hassle if they end up selling them for £29.
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Post by DRB » Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:08 pm

Did anybody purchace any sort of grain mill after and if so,which one and is it any good thanks,because i've still got that 25kg of marris otter staring me in the face every day calling me to make beer with it :shock: .
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