I have a MD50 Rancilio that I would like to tame a little for home use - I'm not looking for the technical know how about the electronics, but more trying to work out what feature will best answer my needs.
Its the automatic model, so the behaviour is to switch it on, then either press the momentary switch to start grinding *or* flap the dosing chamber lever 6 times. It has an automatic cutout at the top of the dosing chamber that will stop the grinder when the doser is full - the idea behind all this is to maintain a full doser in a commercial setting (I'd never want that in a commercial setting, let alone at home). Now, this is not a domestic machine - I'd just like to tame it a little bit.
What would you do if this was yours? Ideally, I'd like to grind ~25grams at a time, then turn off, and be ready to do it again for the next shot. Its fast enough to grind on demand and use the doser as a distribution aid. The problem with the current setup is that I could grind a retail sized bag of coffee automatically without intending to, or, I manually flick the switch on/off till I get the amount I need - interrupted by flapping the doser handle.
As a bare minimum, i'll probably convert it to a full manual so I only need to operate one power switch on/off rather than a combination of power, toggle, doser, cutout.
Its the automatic model, so the behaviour is to switch it on, then either press the momentary switch to start grinding *or* flap the dosing chamber lever 6 times. It has an automatic cutout at the top of the dosing chamber that will stop the grinder when the doser is full - the idea behind all this is to maintain a full doser in a commercial setting (I'd never want that in a commercial setting, let alone at home). Now, this is not a domestic machine - I'd just like to tame it a little bit.
What would you do if this was yours? Ideally, I'd like to grind ~25grams at a time, then turn off, and be ready to do it again for the next shot. Its fast enough to grind on demand and use the doser as a distribution aid. The problem with the current setup is that I could grind a retail sized bag of coffee automatically without intending to, or, I manually flick the switch on/off till I get the amount I need - interrupted by flapping the doser handle.
As a bare minimum, i'll probably convert it to a full manual so I only need to operate one power switch on/off rather than a combination of power, toggle, doser, cutout.

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