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by Ben Z.
Yesterday, 12:09 am
Forum: Tips and Techniques
Replies: 26
Views: 867

When distilled water is a good thing...

My Elektra absolutely overfilled when pure water was used. I had it at work running off a 5 gallon container. We used super pure water that we needed for a special test (we can make 100s of gallons per day) and I had a bottle of concentrate I told people to use. Once they forgot and it
by Ben Z.
April 4th, 2024, 6:37 pm
Forum: Grinders
Replies: 448
Views: 46021

Option-O Lagom 01 Discussion

For some reason I thought they made their own burrs
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by Ben Z.
April 1st, 2024, 6:55 pm
Forum: Espresso Machines
Replies: 1647
Views: 165831

La Marzocco Linea Micra

What serial number (xx the last digits if you want) are they up to?
by Ben Z.
March 24th, 2024, 11:15 pm
Forum: Water
Replies: 3
Views: 88

Australian Distilled/De-ionized water

Just make it. A distiller or ro system will pay for itself in short order
by Ben Z.
March 23rd, 2024, 5:11 am
Forum: Tips and Techniques
Replies: 49
Views: 3303

"Slow grinding" - Lance is back with another interesting hack

I was thinking about why the grinds could be bigger. You could usually have "clogged" burrs when free feeding. Means coffee particles have to do more than get through the burrs, they have to squeeze past each other. The other idea is a bit different. When feeding one bean at a time, perhaps grind pa...
by Ben Z.
March 19th, 2024, 3:53 am
Forum: Grinders
Replies: 21
Views: 1610

Versalab M4 - truly WDT free?

Probably something novel and totally not a blatant ripoff of a different product
by Ben Z.
March 16th, 2024, 3:28 am
Forum: Coffee Roasting
Replies: 8
Views: 312

How does elevation at site of roasting affect coffee?

Surprised they can't just get a different jet
by Ben Z.
March 13th, 2024, 1:07 am
Forum: Repairs, Restorations & Mods
Replies: 10
Views: 337

"Mini Veigal" restoration. What's the name behind it?

Great job!
by Ben Z.
March 8th, 2024, 7:53 pm
Forum: Buying Advice
Replies: 67
Views: 27305

Most reliable brand of espresso machines?

E61s have extra moving parts. It's no big deal to fix them, but if you want absolute top reliability, it would be really hard to beat either a non-volumetric commercial cimbali or Elektra
by Ben Z.
March 1st, 2024, 3:33 pm
Forum: Repairs, Restorations & Mods
Replies: 4
Views: 158

Looking for the 1990s Rio logo

I bet if you post this on photoshoprequests (or whatever it's called) on reddit, someone could give you a version ready to send to the sticker maker. Alternatively, offer like $20 on fivver. There's plenty of image existing to work with