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It'a detained by magnets so it doesn't get in the basket and interfere with spreading out the grounds. Needs a clean up with a lick of sandpaper, pretty stupid but these things cost like 50 bucks /shrug

EDIT: appreciate all the concern for my health, it touches dry coffee grounds. I agree that if it got wet there'd be health problems but unless it gets real humid there's just no opportunity for decay. As for random leaching same diff, without heat and wet it's not really a concern.

That said I probably will seal an improved design, this is just a test piece.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I know it's probably sacrilege, but I avoid the need for one of these by grinding half a dose, tamping a bit then grinding the rest and finishing the tamp. I'm using a Breville Barista Express so couldn't (easily) use one of these even if I wanted to.

I'm curious how you retain the magnets in it? Are they printed in, or mechanically added later? (I know very little about 3d printing, this just came up in my top-6-hour feed)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I haven't done much with magnets, but I saw one model where you pause the print halfway through, drop magnets into the holes, then continue the print and they get sealed in Amontillado-style.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pop the magnets into the paused print.

The magnets: "Hahaha. This is a fine joke, good sir!'

Resume print

Magnets: "Yes, a very funny joke indeed. Wait, sir, where are you going! Sir! SIR!!"

Walk away knowing that neither you nor anyone else will see those magnets again

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh God imagine being 3d printed alive into your casket

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Worst part is it taking forever for it to print the casket around you, and you're just lying there unable to do shit and just watch the casket close around you in ultra slow-mo. Like being buried alive with a tea-spoon for a shovel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not really a coffee wanker so I don't know one way or the other what tamping halfway would do. I just want to be able to dump the grounds in, shake, and tamp.

The magnets are just push fit into little holes in the bottom. I just tap them in with blunt nail and a hammer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Oh you know how coffee people are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You 3D printed a dosing funnel.

You 3D printed a dosing funnel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I refuse to call it that! My machine takes a charge thankyouverymuch. I dose heroin to cope with my self loathing.

Jokes aside it just makes stuff cleaner. You'll be horrified to know I don't usually bother with a needle tool, I think French press and moka pot are actually pretty nice (honestly a giant fan of French press), cold brew is delicious but I absolutely cannot be fucked with waiting hours for my coffee, and if people like milk and sugar it's fine although I do think we could all benefit from eating less sugar as I think acclimatising yourself to sweetness mutes normal flavours in food.