Mazzer Major motor problem

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Kflu
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#1: Post by Kflu »

My mazzer major is acting weird. It jumps/moves around on the counter. When I start it, It first seems to stall but then it starts and it starts to jump/move around on the counter. I've clean the burrs and the burr chambers but it didn't help. If i rotate the the lower burrs by hand
, It rotate easy without any noise. So I don't believe it could be a mechanical issue like bad bearings.
Could it be the motor windings that's gone bad?
Does any one know what resistance I should be on the windings?

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pizzaman383
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#2: Post by pizzaman383 »

Bouncing around implies that something might be unbalanced. Did anything get jammed? If you adjust to the point that the burrs touch when it is running does it have a high or low pitch sound?
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