Dave: Looks like you have plenty of room there to enjoy your hobby. Perhaps you know someone who could make some nice wooden standoff for your 'other' machine.

Mark

From the old setup PID 12oz single boiler silvia:

To the new one brewhead temp sensored 6L HX Astoria SAE JUN:

mhoy wrote:Dave: Looks like you have plenty of room there to enjoy your hobby. Perhaps you know someone who could make some nice wooden standoff for your 'other' machine.

Mark

I like the pine 2x4 hillbilly block riser method.

Legs are too low to properly run the drain line, quick fix cut some 2x2 blocks, drill a 1 1/8 inch recess with a Forstner bit for the legs to rest in.

Just showing off my set up. Isomac Tea, Mazzer Mini E type b and recessed sink with under counter water filter / chiller. Ace!!!

My wife finally let me bring my Barista's Nightmare inside to a space where our old freezer was. The laminated bamboo cart was purchased from ekitchenislands.com and has space below for the water container and other items. The silicone rubber hose at the edge of the sink is for the espresso machine drain.

Amazing Eric. What do you have going on there? Five (or is it six?) dials plus I guess a timer in green at the right. What do they tell you?

I guess you have to open BOTH eyes to extract your first drink in the morning!

ECM GIOTTO plumbed and drained and Mini

boyscout wrote:Amazing Eric. What do you have going on there? Five (or is it six?) dials plus I guess a timer in green at the right. What do they tell you?

I guess you have to open BOTH eyes to extract your first drink in the morning!

You can never have too much instrumentation. The gauges measure boiler pressure, brew pressure, boiler temperature, group temperature, brew flow rate, boiler level, and shot time. The timer is 1960's vintage with one second and one minute per revolution pointers. More details are in my post at CG: http://www.coffeegeek.com/forums/espresso/machinemods/443221. Here is a video showing the machine in action:

My humble setup as I just started true (i.e. semi-automatic) home espresso in December 2009. Trusty Bodum FP hasn't been broken yet after all these years. Hopefully in a few years will be able to get plumbed "high-end" machine (GS/3 or Speedster) so that can output large number of lattes/cappucinos easier. For now guests know quality takes time and far exceed Starbucks dreck. And if they still want Starbucks then I toss them some German steel.

I modified the WDT by placing new sewing needle onto pencil as I can grip this better than dissecting needle.