Possepat wrote:Stephen,

The temp tags are indeed cool. I ordered mine on Dec 7th.

Thanks for the info, temp tags might be in my future

arcus wrote:Thanks Stephen! It turns out it was your L-I tamper I was trying to find in the thread. Unfortunately, I included a 58mm RB tamper w/ my E61 machine that I sold earlier this year so now I need to get another. Did you have to special order that?

Arcus:
Yes, I did special order that "L-I" tamper, it is a RB. I selected the brass because it was heavy, which I like. You really don't need a special tamper and any 58mm would work IMHO, it's just bling
Stephen

arcus wrote:Yes, but that one is very cool and tempting

When I was filling out the area for what I wanted in the text on the delrin part of the handle I should have left a space between the L and the hyphen and the I, so it looked like this L - I rather than L-I since it runs together to much. Oh well....

arcus wrote:I seem to recall reading in this thread that tamping at 30lbs wasn't recommended. Is very consistent tamping pressure important on the L-I and what approx. pressure are you using?

I am not so sure about tamping pressure consistency being all that important, but grind is. The fineness of grind and the distribution of it is pretty important. You do not want instant gushers

A slow pre-infusion is far better than an instant gusher.

I finally managed to stop the L-I yesterday. Coffeenoobie and Prof, along with their significant others, came over for an afternoon lunch grinder comparisons and demonstrating/testing the L-I.

We had a Zassenhaus and a Pharos and once we had them dialed in for the recently roasted Sweet Maria's that Prof provided we got to pulling shots for 6 people. Many, many 15g shots and after maybe 10 doubles, water wand demo and cleaning flushes we managed to bring the pressure down to almost zero. After about an 8 minute wait were were back to pulling more shots. with 2 people using 2 grinders and 1 person pulling shots we were entering the commercial category.

The shots came out great!

Thanks one and all for the participation!