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by joellawry
March 24th, 2010, 5:22 am
Forum: Lever Espresso Machines
Replies: 9
Views: 2185

Brugnetti Aurora lever anyone?

Man that's pretty! *sigh* i really wish i had the money to spend on a lever, but too many other things come first for a student living on scraps
by joellawry
January 7th, 2010, 7:05 am
Forum: Lever Espresso Machines
Replies: 31
Views: 2830

BIG Shipment- Grosso Gruppi! Faema Lambro and Gaggia America land in Australia

I thought you could run neutral and ground together? What would use 3 phase leads and a neutral?
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by joellawry
January 7th, 2010, 7:01 am
Forum: Lever Espresso Machines
Replies: 31
Views: 2830

BIG Shipment- Grosso Gruppi! Faema Lambro and Gaggia America land in Australia

Bluecold - it has four leads, if you look at the picture blue and black are two separate leads which have been twisted together. Since they were twisted together i'd assume that it's fine to run as 2 phase because as the OP said they've obviously been tested
by joellawry
January 7th, 2010, 1:31 am
Forum: Lever Espresso Machines
Replies: 31
Views: 2830

BIG Shipment- Grosso Gruppi! Faema Lambro and Gaggia America land in Australia

Green/Yellow will be neutral (the bottom vertical pin on an australian plug), the other three will all be phase which means at some stage this has been run on 3phase power. If you need to connect to a plug, it doesn't matter which way the three phase wires are connected, connect two to one terminal ...
by joellawry
March 19th, 2009, 1:53 am
Forum: Coffee Brewing
Replies: 3
Views: 533

One Cup Cup-Top Coffee Brewers

No, it's quite a modern, plastic affair. Heres a diagram (paint because i am camera-less) {image}
by joellawry
March 17th, 2009, 1:50 am
Forum: Coffee Brewing
Replies: 3
Views: 533

One Cup Cup-Top Coffee Brewers

Hi All, My mum has had a lodger for the past couple of months who has a cup top brewer, but is now leaving to venture onwards. The good thing about this is that the ease of use combined with the good cup of coffee at the end have helped mum to kick her instant habit, the bad news
by joellawry
December 7th, 2008, 8:41 pm
Forum: Knockbox
Replies: 26
Views: 2368

Music you listen to while drinking coffee

Well it entirely depends on what i'm already listening to. I have to admit i am a music-addict. I am always listening to something, so whatever's on is what's on, however, some favourtie bands; Dream Theater (Fantastic Progressive Rock) Anberlin (One of the best Christian Punk bands around IMO) Broo...
by joellawry
November 4th, 2008, 2:17 am
Forum: Espresso Machines
Replies: 8
Views: 8260

Water in Portafilter

Your machine is a thermoblock machine - this is entirely normal. The way a thermoblock works is by pumping small amounts of water into a heated block. The small, repetitive pumping actions are the "thumping" you hear, and the water coming out is because it hasn't yet reached steaming temperature
by joellawry
November 2nd, 2008, 8:53 pm
Forum: Espresso Machines
Replies: 2
Views: 895

Retro Gem - perfect milk steamer

Sounds like a good find for you. You say you make lattes, if you don't mind my asking what machine do you use to get the espresso with which you make the lattes? Also, have you looked inside your milk-steaming marvel at all? Could you give us more detail about what the internals are? Does it have a ...
by joellawry
August 7th, 2008, 3:13 am
Forum: Coffees
Replies: 24
Views: 1120

Suggested Coffees for Ice Cream?

The way i was taught (and still do) make affogatos is to put a small amount of vanilla ice cream in a Demitasse, and cover it with a double shot directly from the pf. The ice cream half melts - leaving you with the interesting blend of hot/cold, coffee/sugar flavour combinations as you eat/drink it....