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  • E-Gene
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    In the case of this styrofoam mod, I think that size is the biggest factor. Its hard to gauge how big the wedge should be, because that will determine how much coffee goes in.

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  • Sink_cut
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    I think the block stops most beans bouncing too high. A few beans come up higher and hit the bottom of the gate but they just bounce back in. Same issue (not reaaly an issue) whenever you grind untill nothing left in the burrs.

    I have scince covered the foil in clear contact an stuck on some velcro to hold it super snug in place in the hopper. It is working very well and seems to be grinding a consistent amount of coffee each time. I say seems to be because before I tamp I chop off the grounds level with the PF which means It does not affect my shot if I grind a bit extra, however, I seem to only be chopping off the same small amont each time. If you dose by pushing down all of your grounds then I would do some tests weighing each dose for a while before releying on this mod.

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  • scooter
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    Sc, do you have trouble with any beans bouncing up (popcorning) as you get towards the end of grinding your double shot?


    Cheers...................Sean

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  • Sink_cut
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    E-Gene - now foil covered. Fits in place better and no chance of ground styro. And I feel better as alfoil is more food suitable then styro.

    YeeZa - dark outside , no view

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  • Sink_cut
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    Originally posted by YeeZa link=1214736102/20#36 date=1216629290
    Just in case we didnt get a good enough view of the beach, you thought youd add in that extra pic through the hopper huh?

    yeah... I thought twice about posting that one - did not want to seem like a complete showoff, I did enough of that the other day. but I could not be botherd taking another shot... If only we owned this place :-/

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  • yeeza
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    Just in case we didnt get a good enough view of the beach, you thought youd add in that extra pic through the hopper huh?

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  • Sink_cut
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    Originally posted by E-Gene link=1214736102/20#34 date=1216627176
    I actually tried something similar but I saw some bits of styrofoam in my grind. Never again.
    Styrofoam is a prototype to get the size right... I reckon there are heaps of things that would work - closed cell foam , wood.

    I originally did not want to use styro for the same reason ,however, if you cut the styrofoam correctly you get a very smooth non crumbly surface. So far no sign of styro being ground - and you would see it too. I dont know how long it will last though.

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  • E-Gene
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    I actually tried something similar but I saw some bits of styrofoam in my grind. Never again.

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  • Sink_cut
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    Put back together.. you can hardly see it.

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  • Sink_cut
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    Block in Hopper....

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  • Sink_cut
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    I have just come up with a mod.

    Double shot bean dispenser.****
    I like to run the all the beans out of the girinder in between shots. This lets me pulse the grinder to help clean the chute, and it means when I tweek the grind for the next shot there will be no old size grindes left.
    This means that so far I have to measure out the beans for each shot - even If I intend to make 5 or 6 in a row.

    The Mazzer hoppers have a gate. If you close the gate you get way more than a double shot before it runs out. My Mod just reduces the bean volume under the gate.

    I just wedged a cylinder of styrofoam in the bottom of the hopper. I cut the foam cylinder smaller and smaller untill it left just enough room for a double shot of beans. (pictures to follow). It ended up looking like a 1/2 circle cylinder.  

    Now I can just tip a large volume of beans in the hopper. Every time I want to grind for a shot I just open and close the gate then run the grinder till it stops grinding. This leaves the right amount for a double shot ground in the doser every time.

    This is only a first attempt. Now I know the required wedge size I might make one out of wood.



    "Tuned" Foam block...

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  • sdg
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    Might just add that the great advantage of the "poke little thin flat things between the doser vanes" approach to sweeper modding is that you dont actually have to dismantle *anything*!

    A fine thing to find out after I did exactly that :-[

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  • sdg
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    Too true -- for some reason these days most of my double baskets worth of coffee seems to want to stay in the chute! So if I had a doserless that would all be left in the tube, going stale -- not good

    Also I dismantled my doser far enough to realise that no way was I going to want to stand there hanging on to the PF while MM munched her way through 18g.

    Not a speedy machine, by any measure (well theres always hand grinding, I suppose)

    So -- doser goes back together.

    But at least I was finally motivated to have a go at the sweeper mod -- except didnt like the idea of tape -- sticky stuff + coffee grounds == :P

    So heres my version of the sweeper mod -- little bits of white card cut 26mm x 15mm (shouldve been taller with hindsight, I think, maybe 26mm x 20mm, but hey, this is the 1st attempt)

    My plan was to somehow poke these between the upper and lower vanes and hope that they stayed put. At first I couldnt see how I could possibly do this, then realised that if I lay the grinder on its back, and pulled the doser lever, I could stick my bits of card in between the vanes (against the leading edge of the lower vane) as each vane became just visible from underneath (ie, thru the hole that you stick your PF under to collect coffee).

    Provided the card is just the right thickness theyll stay put as the vanes sweep over the hole :

    Well, one fell out on the 1st pass, so cut another, and squished its edge to make it very slightly fatter. Inserted, turn grinder upright again, flick, flick, flick, nothing falls out, yay!

    Removed that idiotically-positioned PF-fork thingy while I was at it -- ought to be just a matter of removing the 2 screws, but no, thatd be way too easy, turns out you actually have to take the *base* off. Grrr.

    But its off -- now Ill wait and see if I like it that way...

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  • Sink_cut
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    THe main reason I was happy to go for a doser, despite the extra hassel, was the access to brush out the chute between every session, grind change or coffee change. If you do this before dosing you dont waste any coffee.
    If you convert to doserless you will probably lose this ability. - unless you come up with something extra clever

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  • sdg
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    Google is my friend even threw up this old thread

    A few ideas there to pursue...

    And theres a truly *ugly* one here

    Think Id want to keep the doser though, just in case :

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