Originally Posted by
treelounger
I don't much care for hand cranking but could not afford to spend a couple or several hundred dollars on a grinder, so I converted mine. I took the hand crank off and bolted a pully on,and screwed it down to a wood base. put an elctric motor on the wood base, got a v belt and wolla! an electric grinder. It works well. I run the meat through the big plate once and the small plate twice. I also do a reasonable amount of trimming. I don't get carried away because like youfound out you'll end up losing alot. Good luck