The Anfim Super Caimano grinder doses nicer than a Mazzer. Less spillage, maybe even less clumping. I posted a little article with some crazy ideas that might interest OCD Mazzer owners.

Very entertaining.

I get close by not having a portafilter fork to prevent me from putting the PF where the coffee falls from the doser.

It costs less than $.01, and I feel the peace radiating out of my apartment, throughout the complex, and towards downtown where the city council meets.

Lubbock will soon be the model of a Utopian society.

Keep an eye out.

Great looking mod. I've been meaning to add an antistatic/declumping exit chute screen to my SJ for a while, never got around to it. Perhaps I'll try the single wire trick instead. World Peace, baybee!

By the way, in Italy the baristi call this little snout a "shnozz," although the correct term in technical Italian is "shnozzola."

I think the technical term in Italian is schnozzino.

That's too simple to NOT to try.

Jasonian wrote:I get close by not having a portafilter fork to prevent me from putting the PF where the coffee falls from the doser.

I've been sans PF fork for a month or so too. I never did like that thing but was too lazy to take it off.

brad

RapidCoffee wrote:I think the technical term in Italian is schnozzino.

Hahaha, I'll take your word on that, my Italian just isn't that good.

Now that's what I'm talking about fast, practical and low on the wallet$$$.

All great Mod's ......

Had to cut an E string off from my 67 vintage Tele for world peace.
Hey I'm down it's a good cause.

Thanks Andy

Michael

AndyS, Too simple not to try.
Thanks for sharing this modification.

Kuban111 wrote:Had to cut an E string off from my 67 vintage Tele for world peace.

It's like they say, "anything valuable comes at a high price."

Andy, I've been intrigued by your idea of increasing the length of the chute to reduce the annoying leftward throw. However, I don't like the idea of the paper in the doser chute. I kind of mixed THAT idea with your idea of the guitar strings, etc., and thought that it might be preferable to glue/solder in some thin metal sheets in the chute, more or less in the configuration of your strings, but going down the length of the chute. Have you tried/heard of such a thing? I think I will try it soon.

I don't like the idea of the paper in the doser chute.

You certainly could make a schnozzola out of thin sheet metal rather than paper (as some people have done).

I kind of mixed THAT idea with your idea of the guitar strings, etc., and thought that it might be preferable to glue/solder in some thin metal sheets in the chute, more or less in the configuration of your strings, but going down the length of the chute. Have you tried/heard of such a thing? I think I will try it soon.

I don't know anyone who's tried that. It might cause problems with coffee getting stuck in the there, but it sounds worth trying.