Hi guys,
I wonder if you could help - I've got an Iberital MC2, had it for about six years. Recently it has struggled to grind beans - sometimes it sounds like it's jamming ie, motor sounds laboured. Other times it flat out won't grind (but seemingly makes no attempt to, ie press the button, no little click or sound of anything jamming then not moving).
I've taken it apart completely down to having the motor out, cleaned and reassembled, and no change.
The burrs don't seem to be fouling (unless a bean gets stuck between them, then it's almost like the motor can't overcome the stuck bean, at which point I remove hoppy, tap out beans, back burrs right off and it eventually goes).
I've isolated (removed) the switch from the equation too, so it's not that.
Any ideas? Have you come across this before?
My thoughts are that somehow the motor has worn out, but does this happen, especially for 6 years at 2x espressos a day average? The thing looks intact and pretty bomb proof!
Is there an issue with the PCB, is that possible? Like it's tripping something before it needs to trip (assume it has some kind of jam protection circuit breaker)?
There's a fair amount of up/down movement (a few mm) on the burr spindle if I remove the top burr and and pull up and down on the conical burr, is that normal?
Basically wondering if there's some obvious solution here, or if in your experience I'll end up replacing near on every major part (motor, burrs, PCB) just to get it running again, and if so, is it even worth it?!
Sorry for the lengthy post, lot of time on my hands ;-)
Best,
James
I wonder if you could help - I've got an Iberital MC2, had it for about six years. Recently it has struggled to grind beans - sometimes it sounds like it's jamming ie, motor sounds laboured. Other times it flat out won't grind (but seemingly makes no attempt to, ie press the button, no little click or sound of anything jamming then not moving).
I've taken it apart completely down to having the motor out, cleaned and reassembled, and no change.
The burrs don't seem to be fouling (unless a bean gets stuck between them, then it's almost like the motor can't overcome the stuck bean, at which point I remove hoppy, tap out beans, back burrs right off and it eventually goes).
I've isolated (removed) the switch from the equation too, so it's not that.
Any ideas? Have you come across this before?
My thoughts are that somehow the motor has worn out, but does this happen, especially for 6 years at 2x espressos a day average? The thing looks intact and pretty bomb proof!
Is there an issue with the PCB, is that possible? Like it's tripping something before it needs to trip (assume it has some kind of jam protection circuit breaker)?
There's a fair amount of up/down movement (a few mm) on the burr spindle if I remove the top burr and and pull up and down on the conical burr, is that normal?
Basically wondering if there's some obvious solution here, or if in your experience I'll end up replacing near on every major part (motor, burrs, PCB) just to get it running again, and if so, is it even worth it?!
Sorry for the lengthy post, lot of time on my hands ;-)
Best,
James
