Pepper Mill Funnel (parametric) by SureshotM6

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

A customizable funnel for refilling pepper, salt, or spice mills / grinders. Now you can keep peppercorns actually in the grinder, rather than all over the kitchen floor.
There are a few other pepper mill funnels on Thingiverse, but none of them fit my needs or grinders very well, even with scaling. There is a shaft guide to keep the funnel centered and stable while transferring peppercorns. The guide is on the bottom to fit short or long shafts. The funnel is skewed so it is harder for the peppercorns to bounce out of the sides of the funnel. Since it is customizable, it can be sized to fit the grinder opening exactly, so that the grinder may be maximally filled. If you print more than one, they can also be nested within each other for storage.
You can customize the bottom diameter and screw/shaft diameter to best fit the specific mill(s) you are filling. The mouth of the funnel can also be sized to fit the pouring container, as well as several other settings. Note that the height of the funnel will automatically scale so that it does not exceed a set angle, so that it can be printed without supports.
I have attached 2 STL files currently. Both have a 65mm mouth at the top, which is large enough to catch peppercorns poured from a large 19.5oz Tone's peppercorn bottle (what you can purchase at a restaurant supply store or a wholesale club). They both are designed for a 6mm screw / shaft size (7mm hole with tolerances). The 33mm file fits an Ozeri Artesio electric pepper mill. The 38mm file fits a vintage Olde Thompson wooden pepper mill.