Must have tool for proper extraction

#1: Post by **AndyPanda** » July 23rd, 2017, 6:02 pm

After you finish picking through your fresh roasted beans and culling any quakers or other defects ... and before you RDT, WDT, OCD or whatever and before you grab your calibrated tamper. You absolutely need to get one of these (thrift store find):

#2: Post by **wsfarrell** » July 23rd, 2017, 7:21 pm

Cool, takes me back a bit. For anyone wondering, the scale is surrounded by glass to prevent stray air currents from messing up your weighing.

July 23rd, 2017, 8:10 pm

I can really taste the difference when I get the dose accurate down to the nearest 10,000th of a gram

#4: Post by **mivanitsky** » July 23rd, 2017, 9:16 pm

You found a working analytical balance at a thrift store?

That is so cool, especially if it actually works!

July 23rd, 2017, 9:50 pm

Yes, it works perfectly except for one of the adjustable feet had the threads all corroded and couldn't adjust (you adjust the feet to get a bubble level centered). I had to drill out the seized threads and epoxy a new bolt shaft to the foot, now I can level it properly. Pretty strange thing to find at a Salvation Army.

#6: Post by **mivanitsky** » July 23rd, 2017, 9:56 pm

Those things cost a fortune, new. I wonder what the story of this one is...

July 23rd, 2017, 10:02 pm

It's a model that isn't made any longer. I suspect they bought a current model because this one looked like it had gotten acid spilled on it (how the adjustable feet got corroded). You never know what you'll find - I found a Bultaco Matador for $25 once.

#8: Post by **AssafL** » July 24th, 2017, 12:32 am

EBF: 1:1.34621