Alan Yates'' Laboratory Comments for "Ball Mill"
My mill is quite a bit slow for its size about 65 RPM, it should run near 100 RPM. Ball mills are typically run at about 7590% of the critical speed. The critical speed is the speed at which the media simply centrifuges right around against the walls. Smaller mills need to run faster, the critical speed is about 42/sqrt(diameter in metres).