A suggestion, depending upon where you live and how active Craigslist is in your area. You can create an account and sign into Craigslist, and then sign up to watch for certain things, like grain mills. You can get notifications when things are posted that you are interested in. This was how I got my German electric grain mill for $24, when they could have asked for close to $400 for it. I've also gotten an old hand grain grinder that may be around 100 years old, from my Craigslist sign up for notification. I don't remember what I paid for it, but around $20. It is a hand crank. There are the corn grinders, but lots of work to hand crank. I have my grandfathers old meat grinder that he used when he was a butcher. There are many on Ebay. You can get them with various plates to attach, depending upon what you are grinding. There is a grain plate for some of these old meat grinders. I think it is lots of work with those as well, but if we have no power, something is better than nothing. And I seriously have a grinding set up that is two stones that at one time long ago were used for grinding grains that I got from a teacher store that had many things donated for teachers to buy for pennies on the dollar. Those two stones were donated by the Denver Art Museum and had been in one of their displays. If two is one and one is none, I'm covered a few times.
So here is where it starts falling apart. I called customer service again and they said oh we will have to work on that. The parts are hard to get from the manufacturer in China. Wait what? We decided at this point it was better to return it and they would send a new one. They emailed a label and will ship as soon as they get the tracking info for the return.
