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Sunday, June 03, 2007

Sweep mod for the K10


As I noted in my first post regarding the Compak K10, I already chopped the hopper to make the grinder shorter and added an external timer to help in grind-per-shot use. To further improve the K10 for this type of use at home, I took the doser apart to implement the "electrical tape mod" or "sweep mod".
The sweep of doser on the K10 was not too bad before, but with this modification it is clearly better. There is virtually no coffee left behind in the doser. The only part where a few stray grinds are left behind is the top of the dosing star, where some of the coffee exiting the chute does spray on. To be honest, this is minimal, but being a neatnik, the "inverted cup mod" is something that I have in my sights in the near future...



By the way, when putting the doser back together, I intentionally left our the dosing sector (highlighted in the first picture with the red arrow) as it just promotes grinds retention on top of it. Without it in place the doser is also even easier to clean.




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4 Comments:

Blogger Rylle said...

Thanx for a great blog!
A question regarding the grinders, do you have residues that get stuck between the burrs and the dispenser?
On my old Cimbali Junior I havet to use a "rake"
How are the new grinder? any residues?

Tuesday, June 05, 2007  
Blogger Teme said...

Yes, there is coffee stuck in the chute leading from the burrs to the doser. However, since there is nothing that gets in the way, I can just use a brush to get most of the coffee out. This reduces the amount of coffee retained in the grinder to just a couple of grams (which I get rid of by running the grinder for a second or so and dumping the first couple of grams of coffee coming out).

Br,
Teme

Wednesday, June 06, 2007  
Blogger col said...

That's a nice mod. I shall attempt this mod with my K6. Btw, I emailed u on HB.

Thursday, July 19, 2007  
Blogger Teme said...

Thanks Colin,

I got your mail. You should also have one (my response) in your inbox :)

Br,
Teme

Friday, July 27, 2007  

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