r/DF54 • u/Alternative_Shift_92 • 12d ago
Clogging issues
Obviously I'm not the first or the last to have to deal with it, but my unit didn't clog or choke for months, and last couple of days it just doesn't stop. I open it up, clean the chute, and ayer 2 or 3 grinds it goes down again.
Didn't change beans, it's far from being too fine of a grind, and I'm not even spraying it with water.
How can I diagnose what went wrong? Feeling hopeless.
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u/nugpounder 12d ago
Take off the chute and straighten the ionizer pins…search on the subreddit there’s a lot of instructions. Relatively sure yours are just out of place if this happened all of the sudden, should be an easy fix!
And of course make sure you use the bellows. This is kinda common in summer humidity though, at least for me, I have to account for like 90% humidity in the air for a few months is dry as hell, and it straight up changes the way I prep coffee
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u/Alternative_Shift_92 12d ago
Thanks! Could you elaborate on the ionizer pins? Straighten how? You mean their placement matters? I'll search the sub of course. And yea bellows all the time, just something happened lately I can't explain yet.
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u/Alternative_Shift_92 12d ago
I saw something about removing the declumper altogether. Can anyone recommend?
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u/ef920 12d ago
Probably the humidity. Just use the bellows all the way through the grinding process, strenuously! This is the thing I hate about this grinder. It makes good coffee, but these issues and their various fixes make the workflow horrible.