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  • Help. Macap embedded with Vietnamese coffee

    I need a macap m4/M5 manual (dismantling manual) that is. Any links please? Its interior is now embedded with vietnamese coffee kindly brought back by a thoughtful colleague. Not a grind made it out of the spout from a typical double-shot dose. I can only imagine... And the Yirgacheffe I tried to grind after it didnt make it budge an inch.

    It smelled syrupy... felt oily... I think it had some sort of post-roast coating.

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    Re: Help. Macap embedded with Vietnamese coffee

    Many asian coffees are roasted in butter in a wok. This could be the case here. Its most likely going to be low grade robusta anyway.

    I would buy some grindz, dismantle the grinder and begin scraping it out. Once sufficiently clear, run the grindz through it.

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      Re: Help. Macap embedded with Vietnamese coffee

      Ahhh.

      Did. Thanks. Discovered the innards without a manual manual after all. The thought of another day without coffee was too much.

      I had grindz on hand but never required... until today, where they were a lifesaver to get some of the remaining superfine pastey gunk out, along with an electric toothbrush which attacked the bulk of it.

      And a warning to people who need to remove their micrometric thread: put a mark at your usual grind position on the metal thread piece under the black plastic collar and on the main grinder body.

      I unknowingly rethreaded mine starting from a different thread point (there are 3), so now have a different collar grind number position for my base espresso region. And I aint going to shift it all over again then dial it in again and waste another few hundred of the poor Yirg. Ive made enough sacrifices for one day. ;D

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        Re: Help. Macap embedded with Vietnamese coffee

        Originally posted by 0C2B312029292C212035312D450 link=1258530155/2#2 date=1258541527
        I unknowingly rethreaded mine starting from a different thread point (there are 3), so now have a different collar grind number position for my base espresso region
        good avice, and they come from the factory this way.

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