No essay today haha, but just a little DIYing fun! The flexible metal strip across the front of the chute snapped off (probably from me constantly bending it back and forward to clean the chute). I found it really helpful with eliminating static and also in holding back the grinds from shooting out fast, as without it I found it made a bit of a mess haha. So I pondered a few possibilities, dusted my hands, and bought just some ol 0.9mm wire, cut it up, twisted it round, and viola! Works very well in eliminating mess, and not only that, quite easy to move out of the way to clean the chute (my original plan involved magnets, double sided adhesive strips and slicing up metal sheeting, so this is much simpler haha). I slotted the ends of the wire inside the holes left from the finger guard thingo I removed, seemed to just all fall into place. Just thought I'd post this for anyone else in a similar predicament, there always seems to be some sort of solution haha. 
