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Permalink Reply by Adam Ptasnik on January 18, 2011 at 1:23pm

Astoria branded grinders are Mazzer made, just like the Rio branded ones...  Same thing for the Mahlkoenig K30's.  Someone please correct me if I am wrong:)  The prices you are looking at are list prices, like a msrp price.  Typically A wholesaler will discount off of the list price. 

Best,

AP

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Permalink Reply by Brady on January 18, 2011 at 2:39pm

+1

 

CMA does not manufacture grinders.  The Astoria grinder that looks like a Super Jolly IS a Super Jolly.

 

Incidentally, they also re-brand Compak grinders as Wega.

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Permalink Reply by sage on January 18, 2011 at 6:04pm

andy, here's my two cents...am coming up on 9 years using my astoria grinder.  has been a workhorse, to say the least.  one minor breakdown...a spring in the dispensing lever mechanism sprung...part cost was about 89 cents.  now my question is:  can i expect any wearing by now on the burrs, or other areas of this grinder?  i don't know...seems to grind as good now as it did back in 2002!

best of luck with your new shop!...what area?

 

sage

the coffee hound

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Permalink Reply by Andy Wiebe on January 18, 2011 at 6:35pm

Thanks sage!  That's great to hear.  We're opening our second location in Winkler, MB, Canada in the coming months and wanna take some steps forward in our machine quality, electronic dosing grinders included. It's a small community of about 10,000 but there's nothing within at least 100 miles of us that does single cup brewing or even pays great attention to quality and freshness like we do. Thanks again for your input.

sage said:

andy, here's my two cents...am coming up on 9 years using my astoria grinder.  has been a workhorse, to say the least.  one minor breakdown...a spring in the dispensing lever mechanism sprung...part cost was about 89 cents.  now my question is:  can i expect any wearing by now on the burrs, or other areas of this grinder?  i don't know...seems to grind as good now as it did back in 2002!

best of luck with your new shop!...what area?

 

sage

the coffee hound

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Permalink Reply by Dustin DeMers on January 18, 2011 at 8:00pm

Not sure if your is Astoria is the supper jolly grinder, but I heard today from the Mazzer rep the Jollys burrs should be replaced every 400 kilos(or 880 pounds). Not sure how much coffee you have put threw it in 9 years but probably time for a new burr set.

sage said:

andy, here's my two cents...am coming up on 9 years using my astoria grinder.  has been a workhorse, to say the least.  one minor breakdown...a spring in the dispensing lever mechanism sprung...part cost was about 89 cents.  now my question is:  can i expect any wearing by now on the burrs, or other areas of this grinder?  i don't know...seems to grind as good now as it did back in 2002!

best of luck with your new shop!...what area?

 

sage

the coffee hound

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Permalink Reply by Shadow on January 19, 2011 at 6:04am

+1 on the burr replacement. It may seem as good as when it was new, but after installing/breaking in new burrs I'm sure you will notice a difference. After all, new burrs for the most common commercial grinders is probably $75 MAX.

Dustin DeMers said:

Not sure if your is Astoria is the supper jolly grinder, but I heard today from the Mazzer rep the Jollys burrs should be replaced every 400 kilos(or 880 pounds). Not sure how much coffee you have put threw it in 9 years but probably time for a new burr set.

sage said:

andy, here's my two cents...am coming up on 9 years using my astoria grinder.  has been a workhorse, to say the least.  one minor breakdown...a spring in the dispensing lever mechanism sprung...part cost was about 89 cents.  now my question is:  can i expect any wearing by now on the burrs, or other areas of this grinder?  i don't know...seems to grind as good now as it did back in 2002!

best of luck with your new shop!...what area?

 

sage

the coffee hound

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