Malongo Coffee Machine Parts

The brief

Coffee machines wear out in small places. A lid, a lever, a collar, a latch. Some of those pieces had broken. Others were still available from the factory, and still the wrong answer, because shipping one plastic part across a border cost more than the part.

The job was not a new machine. It was the pieces a machine loses, made again from the ones already in the workshop.

The challenge

A replacement that looks right and does not fit is scrap. These parts sit against existing metal, existing fasteners and an existing operator's hand.

• No clean CAD from the original supplier to start from
• Tolerances set by a worn part, not by a drawing
• Food-adjacent machines, so the material has to be chosen for the job
• A set of different pieces, not a single hero component

How we approached it

Each piece was measured from the physical part. The model was built to that part, printed, and checked back on the machine it came from. Where the first print sat proud or loose, the file changed - not the machine.

The set was the unglamorous hardware a service technician actually reaches for: hopper lids and bean-gate levers, group-head covers and drip-tray clips, steam-wand collars, door latches, badge bezels, feet and cable glands.

What we built

A library of printable replacements, each tied to the machine feature it belongs to, with the print file and the notes for the next run. Several geometries, not one.

We do not publish a part count or a freight saving. Those figures belong to Malongo. The work is the parts, and they fit.

Results

Broken and hard-to-ship pieces now have a local print path. We do not publish Malongo's service volumes or cost figures.

In use

The files stay with the parts they replace. A later break of the same piece starts from the model, not from a photograph and a guess.