rocky doser mod part 2

i sent an email last night to chris coffee to find out if i could put the rocky doserless replacement spout on my now doserless rocky doser. his reply: "to be honest, i have no idea".

maybe not as helpful as "i looked and the nubs on the spout won't fit in the chute on your rocky", but it did save me $18 plus shipping. i looked on the internets and found a dude who placed a nice chrome funnel-like object in his doser (he kept the doser bottom, which i can't do without keeping many of the doser's problems). i have a funnel like object: a funnel! i took one of my brewing funnels and chopped off (rather poorly, i might add. this mod definitely lacks polish) the bottom. this i electrical taped to the already-electrical-taped doser top. coffee grinds still shot out the bottom, so i tried using a different receptacle. this worked much better, in my test, no grounds were lost -- as long as i held the little cup in place. rocky's torquey motor caused the cup to move to the left (redshift, as it were) during the grind. one toothpick and some more electrical tape, and that problem was solved.

now i have a very clean rocky that can grind unattended and not lose grinds to the doser, and not worry about fixing that damned piece of stupid metal (which i now seem to have lost) that makes the doser work. it's a bit ugly with all that electrical tape, but it sure has more character, and who said coffee was pretty?