Ballmill, Suggestions?

**eesakiwi** · 10-30-2011, 08:12 PM

For a ballmill, you want it to be a large diameter & small width.
The balls have to rotate with the side of the ballmill, then at almost the top, drop down onto the scrap at the bottom of the mill & crush the scrap.
Like in the wiki picture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_mill
A rock polisher or small dia ballmill is just going to polish the scrap untill its dust, that'l take ages.

So, maybe 3 foot dia & 10 inches wide

**gustavus** · 10-30-2011, 08:34 PM

Ball mills come in all sizes, some use rods instead of balls to grind the ore, e-scrap is treated as you would ore.

My mill is about 18 inches in diameter by 30 inches long and only has 6 balls, the trick is having a lifter bar welded to the inside of the drum to lift the balls to top dead center before falling onto the chips.

Here's 4 large mills located at one of the sites I visited to have a look an a crane.