The Breville BCG450XL is a great conical burr grinder that my father loves for its ability to help him produce an amazing cup of coffee. However, it has a serious design flaw: the on/off switch, which is redundant with the start button, tends to fail and render the whole unit useless.This instructable is all about how to remove this redundant switch and continue being able to use your unit.
This document helped me immensely, thank you so much for all of this. My only words of advice for anyone else attempting this:If you do not own a triangle-head screw driver (which you probably wouldn't), be prepared to scour your tools for a small enough flat head bit. And when you can't find one and you're entirely fed up with it, you'll want to find a file and simply start grinding down the smallest flat head bit you can find. This was my solution after a long and frustrating time.Also, after you remove the four triangle screws and the cover they hold, if you are trying to get into the machine further, you'll have to use a very long phillips head screwdriver - this is only if you are doing some other project though. (such as this one that I found: -bcg450-burr-grinder-modification-instructions/ )I had such a troublesome time with finding a screwdriver that could handle the triangle screw, and when I finally did find it, I removed the cover only to discover that the people over at Breville, had the common decency to use a phillips head screw on this set of screws. Absolutely frustrating. Why wouldn't they just use phillips head the whole time? Nooooo they have to use the triangle one, just to really 'screw' with you. Jerks...Anyway, it was a great article and it was very clear. I did however forget that the grinder does not turn on unless the grind depository is in place, so when I tried it the first time it didn't work and I was a little depressed, then I remembered to put it in and when I tried it, voila! Thanks again!CH
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