...won it on Ebay and it arrived yesterday, which evening I did a first cleaning. Man, did that thing stink for the deeply embedded staleness! Taking it apart is a rather straightforward matter, and putting it back together proved no problem. I soaked (in fact, boiled) the metallic parts
in a strong solution of ..I think it's called "Micave" or something.. grouphead cleaning powder, after having first scraped off the oozy gunk from everywhere. Phew... Anyway, now everything is quite clean, and the grind-adjustment coil spring is oiled.
I will yet use some metal sandpaper on the visible metallic parts, some metal-cleaning paste I use on my motorcycle on the exterior aluminium and other metal parts, and sand off "splintery" edges and the old varnish off the surfaces, and re-varnish the old wooden "bodywork", so I expect the old Zass to be in a nice "restored" (NOT new!) condition thereafter.
Question: how does one go about sharpening burrs?
What are the no-no's?
The grinder works well, but I want to reach full turkish/greek coffee"powder" grind, and that may be more difficult (I've only ground a bit of uncooked Thai rice till now, and the grind is not "powder"...)
Thanks any useful tips there..