Thanks for inspiring our ad hoc get-together, Ryan. I appreciate the tip RE: the show special at the Comandante booth. I'll be rocking an upgraded travel grinder on my next trip. It was great to see H-B moderators so well represented at the event. Cheers!

I'm walking the expo floor on Saturday

Well cared for Baratza Vario-W for sale. Includes both the steel and ceramic burrsets, two Baratza maintenance tools, as well as the upgraded bean-stopper hopper. Shipped to your door (within the CONUS) in the original box for $350. While this is an older grinder, I replaced the original motor with ...

This is one of the original 2012 HG-One grinders, and one of the very few produced using the faster-grinding 71mm burrs. I bought this regionally from a fellow H-B circa 2014 and used this daily though late-2018, when I bought a used Kafatek grinder here on the Buy/Sell forum. Hard to say what the f...

Right. I have both styles. The 1974 Cremina uses the pstat with the markings on the knob. The 1990s HX has the unmarked knurled knob. I basically stole the microswitch off the newer pstat to refurbish the older unit. In my case, once I had traced the problem to the pstat, I started toggling the micr...

Thanks for the tip, Cafillo. I found a similar Cherry microswitch in stock in California. I bet it will fit in the 1990s pressurestat

Has anyone here found a drop-in replacement for the Miltac microswitches that Olympia Express used in its old-school pressurestats? Backstory: My 1974 Cremina stopped coming to temperature. After tracing wires and checking continuity and so forth, I eventually isolated the problem in the microswitch...

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The quick fix could be as simple as replacing the rusty, high-resistance connector. There is evidence of water leaking out of the boiler gasket. That's an unusual place to have a leak. If that gasket is bad, you may find that all of the gaskets and seals need to be replaced. With any used machine like

I have been running the original Brewista since its release with no real complaints or problems. In the first year, I used some of the pre-sets. But for the last couple of years, I just run it in the full manual mode. No complaints. When I used it on my HX machine, I took care to make sure that it