WMF goes WauWau
What to do if you have a mill at home that you have grown fond of and now it no longer grinds?
Maybe it's a souvenir from grandma, or a beautiful design piece from the 60s or just a bad buy for expensive money? For such a reason, a customer came to me one day in the store with the request whether I could perhaps convert this WMF mill into a functioning kitchen utensil. I could.
The prerequisite was a wooden mill, because this material can be easily modified or supplemented, plastic would not have been possible and stainless steel also reasonably difficult. The dimension of the grinder intake also had to be similar, in this case of the WMF mill, the bore fit. Built-in was a so-called ceramic grinder, but this grinder with the name "Crush Grind" consisted of 75 percent plastic. Compared to the Swiss grinder that I use in my mills, a much cheaper to produce grinder, but not very efficient in the grinding quantity. Ceramic in this case was only the grinding cone and the grinding ring.
First a ring was turned where the grinder had a good fit, a wooden cone was also needed at the top of the mill head to attach the driver plate. This plate was hidden with the axle (which was also made new) and drives the grinder.
I made sure to change the shape of the original WMF mill as little as possible, other than turning it upside down. So all in all, the same mill, but with a Swiss steel grinder. Now with a grinding guarantee.
