DF83 - first impressions

The df as a company seem to be blasting grinders out atm, there’s quite a few models now.

It would be nice to have UK support, but that comes at a price, I know it’s not often you buy a dud, but it can happen.

What sort of age and conditions are the first grinders the df company supplied in now? Or do users upgrade pretty quickly

I do like big burrs, I prefer them to the smaller flats, that’s just me.

Cuprajake What sort of age and conditions are the first grinders the df company supplied in now? Or do users upgrade pretty quickly

I have a first edition DF64, which is coming up to 3 years old now. I love it - haven’t had any issues with it, albeit I have chosen to mod the clump crusher, I’ve switched out the burrs for Mazzers, bought a new sticker for the top to make the zero point at zero and fitted a device to act as a flow control disk - all in all I’ve spent about £70 on it. I’ve got a couple of 3D printed mods to hold the cup closer to the chute and keep it in place plus an arrow indicator for the top, but I have no concerns over build quality at all and expect the grinder will last me many years. I paid an additonal £30 or so for an extended 4 year warranty with BB so it’s cost me about £500 in total - same as a Niche would have

LMSC

BB say the burrs are Italian made (presumably Italmill) which is different to the Chinese burrs that @tompoland was informed it came with. Quite intrigued by the Chinese burrs - they sound interesting.

dutchy101 yes they have been Italmill up until now. They are phasing in the DLC burrs with the DF83 (new units coming into Australia this week have them) and in the DF64 series starting with the DF64V.

The new units with DLC burrs are now in stock here in Australia with prices starting at AU 1,599 which is around GBP 925. Its a bit of a shame that the price of the until has gone up by around $400 but that’s offset somewhat by the DLC burrs. Still, it’s a hefty increase that is going to shut some out of an upgrade unfortunately.

That’s a shame, is that with or with out tax, did some one say anything aus under 1000 didn’t get taxed

for the price difference, id pay more just for dealer back up

Just in from DF headquarters is this response to my question as to whether the DF83 will start shipping with the DLC coated burrs (which they now do in all new Australian models that come in to the country via retailers.

_Hello Tom,

We hope you find the burrs to be as good as SSP too! Our manufacturer of burrs and our team tested and based on their results we say it is on par. We leave it to our resellers who are the professionals in this field too to leave their remarks.

Every grinder will have their own different set of burrs.

DLC can be produced but at an extra cost for DF83, 100USD for 83MM burrs. We found most resellers do not want to raise the cost even further, hence we offer the standard burrs only._

tompoland No - let me ask.. they did mention that the metal dosing cup were extras some distributors were adding on and it was not there from the factory.

tompoland so they think they are the italamil burrs… and they said theY would also be stocking ssp burrs if people wanted to then upgrade

And that’s one of the beauties about both the DF64 and the DF83, there are quite a few burr options for each machine. Add to that how easy it is to swap the burrs out on each grinder and we now have a much more affordable way of satisfying the upgraditus itch - by way of a new burr set rather than a whole new grinder.

I’ve been following this thread since the OP @LMSC started it almost 6 months ago. Thanks LMSC, it’s been inspirational.

I’m looking forward to having the Australian variant in the grinder lab and putting it through it’s paces alongside the DF64.

prezes much better result - 1.7g

Tx for the update. When you say “a much better result”, what do you think made it better? e.g. more use of the bellows.