Judson: Looking for work will 50 mg topamax help me lose weight Like many other mill owners, Bill has spent years restoring his property to its former glory. “We moved here in 1987, and in 1990 I began work on the mill wheel,” he recalls. “It was a great, big, heavy, cast-iron structure. First, a friend and I fixed some bearings on it, then we started replacing the oak paddles.”