The Mighty Mythos?

dfk41 · 8 May

Well, I sorted out all of the issues that I had from day one. The burrs are clean as are the grind chambers. A new clump crusher fitted. Today I decided to throw some beans in and try it. To all of us who have bought single dosing grinders, the idea of a hopper fed system is a culture shock. On removing the top burrs (I did not weigh it) I would imagine that there was 1 to 2 gms of grind that will exchange. Is that a problem? Not to me. That is how things used to be and 10 years ago no one complained about it. After grinding a couple of shots worth I started to adjust grind setting and timer setting. Eventually I got an output of nearly 17 gms and the timer set to 3.45 seconds.

Tomorrow I will continue tweaking and might make a short video. I find it so incredibly easy to stick some beans into the hopper, turn up, insert the pf handle and find a nice fluffy mound in the pf a few seconds later. The clump crusher has stopped the grinds from spraying everywhere. All in all, life is good!

JJason1wood · 8 May

Lovely mate, glad you got there in the end. Haven’t used my DF64 since I refurbished the Mythos. It’s just soooooooo much easier. 👌👌👌

TTal · 8 May

Good job, you’ve had me looking about for a Mythos. There’s a Mythos 2 in my town of all places.

What sort of retention do these hold onto? Do the fans run when in standby mode?

dfk41 · 9 May

Tal The Mythos 2 is the latest variant. I have not had one but I believe the fans start as soon as you turn them on. Whether or not you can geet around this or not I have no idea. The version I have spins at 1350 rpm whereas I think the 2 is 800. They are commercial machines so do retain some grinds. When I took my top burrs off, this is a bad picture. The was not a lot of coffee in the bottom burr but there was a bit around the exit chute. This may have been because my clump crusher was not working properly and the grinder had stood for 3 years. In a couple of weeks time I will take the top burr out again and have a look.

dfk41 · 9 May

My son came around and I learned something invaluable! When you put the phone into video recording mode, there is a pause button! I never knew that! So, anyway, this is the unedited but paused a few times video! I had not realised that I had very few beans in the hopper so the grind fineness was slightly out, but you get the general idea!

Cuprajake · 9 May

dfk41

check you out, be flogging us fairy dust soon enough ;)

dfk41 · 9 May

Cuprajake be flogging us fairy dust

Good name for a coffee bean…….!

dfk41 · 16 May

I was looking through some old videos and came accross this clip. This is the Mythos Clima pro or the newer version. Built for cafes it has a fan that comes on when you power it ip to help cool the grinder down in a busy environment. The spin speed is reduced from 1350 rpm to 800 so it does take longer to grind. But, what a lovely mound!