Ahh, impatience, sweet &^#%& impatience

[gone_fishing]

You know that little voice in the back of your mind that says, "oh, I think if you do this that way you could have a problem!"?? Well, mine told me tonight that I should not use a tap as the means of connecting my drill to my mill. But, I would have had to wait until tomorrow night to grind the grain, as I haven't any way to cut the head of a bolt here at home, and the drill won't open up enough to go over a 9/16 bolt head. Well, score 1 for the voice,,,zero for me. I'll be grinding grain tomorow night if I'm lucky now, as I need to figure out how to remove a broken tap.
Oh, and while I was rummaging around for a means to remove the tap here at home.... I found an adapter that would have let me put a socket on it and turn the stupid bolt with the drill.
The god news is... the 3 tier is up with both burners working fine.

[wortchillergoal]

I can't remember if I posted this story before, but it fits with the opening post of this thread.

The restaurant supply house I worked for sold the hand crank meat grinders. A guy came in one day and needed a new one. His hunting partner thought they could process their meat faster if they hooked the grinder up to an electric drill. The hunting partner then proceeded to grind 3 fingerrs off to the first knuckle.

[gone_fishing]

OUCH!!!

[Grog]

I can help you remove the broken tap. Check your PM's.

[gone_fishing]

Back in action! I removed the broken tap by sliding two 1/16th allen wrenches into the slots between the flutes, gripping them with a vice grip (with the end of the vice grip, not sidewards) and praying while twisting. Made a headless bolt to drive it, and ground 9 lbs of grain in nothing flat when I got home.
Doughed in about 1/2 hour ago...lost 1 degree so far, so we're looking good. I think I'm actually going to boil it tonight too...though I was thinking about just putting it in te fridge till tomorrow night. That would be ok, right??