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For extra rm200 .... i would throw on the SJ rather then Sette..... for robust used

I wish i was in cheras.... but im like 226 mi apart

That is some dope grinder right there.... the futuristic materialistic design.....

Hmm....Just wondering, Any mignon user had done periodic maintenance on the grinder such as simple disassemble and clean the burrs ?

I would like to ask do i need to dail to a coarse grind before unscreen the top plate burr ? or can i just simple unscrew it and clean it

Awesome, Thanks for the advice because i saw 2 set of way in youtube about maintenance.... one with redial the grind setting while another non required to redial....

Where is your location ?

Nice tools, I still using old conventional technique method.... put damp cloth and gently few thump the portafilter and all the clump and lump will break away and i get even distribution .....

It depend on ones preference..... Most nominated are Magnolia Fresh Milk (Yellow Box), Jura's Fresh Milk(Blue Box), Fresh Farm Fresh Milk (Orange Cap) or the Farm House Fresh Milk (Pink Box) ..... Worst performance are Dutch Lady Fresh Milk and HL Fresh Milk.... Rest are not that favourable

I do agree that magnolia is very hard to come by.... At times, They stock in a lot but, sometime you don get them at all in the supermarket which kind of frustrating... Try Pura's they are not bad at all....

Actually most cafe now used the barista milk from magnolia (Pink/ Black box) which cant be brought at any retail store but normal magnolia fresh milk (Yellow box) should be good enough for the substitute of the magnolia barista milk

Yea, Hahah, My typo errors, I mean Pura. Not for my location. Pura can be seen most of the time in supermarket ..... The one that really hard to get for me was the magnolia fresh milk (Yellow Box).

So many boxes, minium them until cirit birit....last time i buy 4 boxes minium until want to die already

Yeah, because pura is imported milk same as farm house while magnolia is local made milk.... Wait for the promo twin pack same like magnolia you can get cheap price from them but i quit using them sometime already ever since i found out magnolia is the best choice among all...

Most "real" fresh milk will expire within a few weeks unlike dutch lady they take more then month to expire...hell who know what they put in there to prolong the milk life span....and it taste like crap after frothing them....

It depend on the weeks of displaying, normally a milk distributor will pull out all the milk from all the supermarket one week before it expire.... so if you out of milk within the pull out week then your out of luck to find them.....have to delay like a week before they restock them back.... sometime it took them 2 weeks to restock the milk. It also depend on your supermarket if they will be the first to get the restock....

Is the hooper is original ? I going to custom mine to smaller ones... seem my original ones was too long

Have you used an espresso machine before or have you try frothing milk before ? What machine your GF give you ?

Btw, you had nice GF understand you, compare to mine only brought me wallet and belt....

Yeah, Guess i have to eat less and save more....haha

Nice DIY, But im not looking forward into DIY it.... Probably i going to get smaller hopper from trusty vendor Elektros....

Nice Store you have there

Depend how frequent you make coffee and how many cup been made plus not to forget what been you used ( Last time i used Liberica beans which super oil, whole grinder kind of mess up had to clean everything external and internally so does my machine too).... normal recommended 2 week once for casual drinker

Pretty much depend but if you happen to have a machine that able to notifies you then it is better to follow that because it is set by the manufacturer recommended standards for specifically on your machine. While those who don have, they got to do it manually depend on their suit of maintenance need


Hot water is no effectively clean those oil that drain through you solenoid valve that why they make cleaning agent for it. Well it depend for average user who make 2-3 cups everyday is a basic recommendation set by my seller of this machine. Of course i can choose it to have once a month or many be half a year once.... but necessity of remove the group head and wash the distributor plate and shower cap is a must....

Look at the art....lolz.... Forthing without cleaning the wand some more unless it had auto clean build in .... Best to get machine dispense hot water for easy maintenance later on...

Ding Ding Ding , Dan430 got the Correcto answer

Disclaimer advice, Make sure you know where the parts goes after tear them apart and don't use force, God, i broke my steam pipe 3 times just to make the right adjustment

No Hot Water Wand ? Easy there is 2 thing you can do....Send to vendor to do it or just DIY if you had your free time on hand (Means Dismantle them completely for descale)

This post has been edited by d33pbluez: Jan 4 2017, 08:57 AM

Well not really, I brought a second unit of oscar from cafe owner, i think the machine is around 2 years if im not mistaken when i tear open the unit, you can see the actual build of lime scale that prompt you to do decale immediately but the machine still going strong till today.

Yup, I saw some cafe owner dismantle their high end machine to do maintenance them selves... some even dismantle it and do mod with see through glass ....

Only way to fully descale oscar is by dismantle it (Earlier i did posted a few dismantle of oscar post) or you can tilt and descale through the steam wand.... which i think not that really effective....



How thick is the cafe 2 yrs old oscar lime build up? 50% of pipe lumen covered?
I would say about 30-40%...not only pipe but also inside the boiler

I used citric acid to give them some dipping for remove those hard lime scale and soften some, then later used brush to give them some nice scrub on the remaining lime scale then i dip them back baking soda to neutralize the acid. For those pipe i jam them in with some soft metal stick and some jet water treatment.... All the hard work

This post has been edited by d33pbluez: Jan 4 2017, 04:46 PM