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by rudedog
November 5th, 2005, 1:54 am
Forum: Knockbox
Replies: 22
Views: 9938

Reusing valve bags, do they wear out?

Not sure where I came up with this idea or whether it is something that has been done before. I found that while I wanted to reuse my old coffee bags that once housed that precious fresh roast... The plastic of those one way valve resealable coffee bags seemed to retain an awful lot of smell, and no...
by rudedog
November 2nd, 2005, 6:37 pm
Forum: Water
Replies: 8
Views: 2801

Recharging cation water softener in water tank

Ok. Think I get it now. Will give it a try when I get proper salt, dont know if the table salt has additives or not. I have about 9-9.5 bar with it attached so that should be good. another_jim 's post made me laugh, but informative, thats what I need I did not know there were
by rudedog
November 1st, 2005, 10:24 pm
Forum: Water
Replies: 8
Views: 2801

Recharging cation water softener in water tank

Regarding this small softener device in my Isomac... Is there directions somewhere on how to recharge it and with what? Its the same as the one Chris sells for 18 bucks. I dont have a water hardness test kit yet, in case you have one in mind? Right now Im using gallon jug drinking water. Back flush
by rudedog
November 1st, 2005, 9:10 pm
Forum: Espresso Machines
Replies: 21
Views: 10813

Brew pressure, boiler insulate, preheat HX coil for Isomac

My Tea is set to 1.1 top end and the cycle seems to be about 49 seconds. Man there is some good stuff here on this site. All these informative posts are great. I'm really trying. Been measuring flush temps myself. It's crazy. One day I hope to be get this nailed down