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Ball Mill from mainly recycled parts
This is my first instructable and I will be showing you how to make a ball mill for grinding chemicals from some recycle...
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Gittes,
ReplyDeleteUnited Nuclear "How to Build a Ball Mill"
exactly what I was looking for.
It is even simpler than the one I had planned to fabricate. I appreciate the clever "gear reduction" through the rubber hose covered drive shafts directly rotating the material containment drum.
It is going to happen.
thanks,
claudio
Gittes,
ReplyDeleteToday I participated in a SWOT analysis meeting.
SWOT - strengths, weaknesses, opportunities,threats
We were looking at how Club Clair treats aborginal students. What services are available to them? How can we better service that particular segment of the college student population?
At one point in the meeting I suggested that if the aboriginal students were treated as we treat any other student attending Club Clair we were definitely setting ourselves up for some serious lawsuits.
The room remained silent from that point in time until the complimentary sandwiches were distributed.
claudio