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Breville coffee grinder impeller.
The bcg800xl smart grinder as well as the original bcg800 and bcg600sil product from breville has a plastic impeller that sits underneath the steel burrs.
Grind directly into a portafilter or an air tight container.
This guide will walk through impeller replacement to fix the most common cause of jamming with the bcg600sil and likely the bcg400 dose control pro grinder from breville.
Its purpose is to push the grounds out the chute that leads to the basket or portafilter.
I ve designed an improved impeller for the bcg800xl that also fits the bcg600sil and made it available here.
The motor wattage exterior housing and the lcd smarts may differ but they are basically constructed the same way.
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The bcg800xl smart grinder as well as the original bcg800 and bcg600sil product from breville has a plastic impeller that sits underneath the steel burrs.
Comparing the three breville coffee grinders dose dose pro and smart pro they appear to use the same conical stainless steel burrs.
Everybody has different tastes and there s no one flavor fits all with coffee.
After six months of once daily use my breville dose control grinder is unusable due to premature wear on the plastic impeller responsible for pushing the coffee grinds towards the chute.
Its purpose is to push the grounds out the chute that leads to the basket or portafilter.
This does not appear to be a new issue as it has been reported in many models of breville grinders bcg400 bcg600 bcg800xl.
Breville unfortunately doesn t sell replacement parts so this tutorial has been made possible only recently by 3d printer technology.
There s a guy that sells a 3d printed impeller for the bcg800 which can be found by searching bcg800xl grinder jamming due to worn impeller.
Please review the breville troubleshooting page first to be sure your grinder does indeed need an impeller replacement.