Bucknails
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Hi! Has anyone here have had experience grinding ore with an air mill? if so, any info on its use and operation would be very helpful. thank you! Buck
Hmm, nice.I think the bucknails means this type. It works by ultrasonic distortion of an air vortex with increasing collision rate.
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You're been waiting for an answer for some time i see.Hi! Has anyone here have had experience grinding ore with an air mill? if so, any info on its use and operation would be very helpful. thank you! Buck
I'm very interested to hear what anyone has to say about these flexicone vortex Mills as I have one and am having the same problem...Thank you everyone for your input and comments. Really appreciate it.
Yes, we have probably memorized the manufacturer specs and have conversed with them directly. Just a reseller so no ability to debug what's happening.
NanoCat, you are the first one to say they have used one of these in the wild. Can you elaborate more about it? What's happening with our unit is we are using about 115PSI, continuous drive air compressor. The feed material is about -30 mesh, homogeneous.
The air mill air discharge is strong so its flowing through the unit.
The problem we are having is when we add the feed material through the intake port, air is blowing back up the intake port and the feed is pushed back upwards. Its like a tornado around the intake port in that the out edge of air is blowing up and there is suction in the center. (that's natural to the device we believe). Bottom line is we don't get any discharge. We attenuated the air pressure but that didn't seem to help.
We have done wet and dry feed. We pumped in the wet feed under pressure. The wet feed did come out the discharge pipe but it hadn't been ground. It was the same size as the input.
We put dry feed in the chamber via the intake port and then hit it with the air. A lot blew back out and again, nothing coming out the discharge.
We took the thing apart but there are no moving parts and no obvious signs of defect.
We are thinking our air pressure may be on the lower side per the specs but the reseller said what we are using should be fine.
Any further idea on what might be happening? We are stuck at the moment.
Welcome to usI'm very interested to hear what anyone has to say about these flexicone vortex Mills as I have one and am having the same problem...
And I'm using a 700 cubic feet per minute diesel powered air compressor.
Thank you very much I'm excited to be back. I've spent the last year working on building a mill.Welcome to us
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