Howdy,
I bought myself a grindenstein recently because my Sunbeam one was too big. Its neat but, like CoffeeGeek observed, surprisingly loud. I quickly concluded this was due to the bar material because Id noticed the Sunbeam, which is quieter, had a wooden bar where the Grindy had plastic (or so I thought). So I set out to replace it with a bit of wooden dowel.
After a Herculean effort forcing out the bar, I discovered its actually solid steel with plastic caps on either end. Not surprising its loud! Retrospectively, it would have been a hell of lot easier to just pull one of the caps off and push the bar out than try and drive the cap through, but at that stage I thought it was just a plastic cylinder. Actually, the rubber tube has moulded ribs that enclose the bar and recesses at the end for the caps. Good construction.
This also meant the dowel I had lovingly crafted based on the diameter of the caps wasnt going to fit. Luckily I had an unused cheap wooden spoon lying around whose handle happened to be just the right diameter so I stuffed that in, sawed it off and voila!, quiet(er) knockbox. I left the caps off in case I want to do it again but they could easily go back in for an invisible job.
Obviously this mod isnt going to appeal to those who like to whale on the bar and/or make lots of noise but theres probably some other quiet-freaks out there. Heres a pic of the bar and the not-yet-sawn-off spoon.
cheers,
Liam

I bought myself a grindenstein recently because my Sunbeam one was too big. Its neat but, like CoffeeGeek observed, surprisingly loud. I quickly concluded this was due to the bar material because Id noticed the Sunbeam, which is quieter, had a wooden bar where the Grindy had plastic (or so I thought). So I set out to replace it with a bit of wooden dowel.
After a Herculean effort forcing out the bar, I discovered its actually solid steel with plastic caps on either end. Not surprising its loud! Retrospectively, it would have been a hell of lot easier to just pull one of the caps off and push the bar out than try and drive the cap through, but at that stage I thought it was just a plastic cylinder. Actually, the rubber tube has moulded ribs that enclose the bar and recesses at the end for the caps. Good construction.
This also meant the dowel I had lovingly crafted based on the diameter of the caps wasnt going to fit. Luckily I had an unused cheap wooden spoon lying around whose handle happened to be just the right diameter so I stuffed that in, sawed it off and voila!, quiet(er) knockbox. I left the caps off in case I want to do it again but they could easily go back in for an invisible job.
Obviously this mod isnt going to appeal to those who like to whale on the bar and/or make lots of noise but theres probably some other quiet-freaks out there. Heres a pic of the bar and the not-yet-sawn-off spoon.
cheers,
Liam



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