Seeing yours in person inspired me! I didn't make the "toilet seat" for mine because I didn't have any thick plywood laying around, and already had the 1x4 from my previous setup. I was actually thinking about adding a longer 1x4, and setting the whole thing over my brew pot/bag and grinding straight into strike water. If I have any leftover plywood from any remodeling projects I'm sure I'll make the doughnut though, the 2 buckets don't fit as tight as I'd like with my 1x4.
I did add some washers to mine and that made a HUGE difference, before it wouldn't stay adjusted and the wing nuts would back out while grinding. Am going to pick up a water bottle on the next Wolly World trip to use as a hopper.
Thanks to everyone, really enjoyed reading this thread over the coarse of a couple days. I guess what I love about this ugly mill; is it's one of the few times in life you can spend a lot less money and actually get something that works just fine. Was a fun project that only took 20 or 30 minutes, and used crap I had laying around.
I was going to replace my cheap amazon mill, but just haven't ever gotten around to it, and now I don't think I EVER will. Dunno how long one of these can last but I've already been using mine for years, no telling how many hundreds of pounds have been through it, maybe even thousands by now!
You've heard of "road dogs", well this is my "Grain Dawg"!