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Got the new Linea Mini home just last night after picking it up at Clive Coffee here in Portland. Clive held a nice open house event on Memorial Day where they invited customers down to the store to try out some of the new equipment and check out some of their open box buys....

Hi guys.

So in my search for a machine I found this...

(KD-310VPS shown)

Welhome is a very big company in China (bigger than most Italian espresso manufacturers). They've developed a low budget pressure profiler called the KD-310VP (VP for variable pressure), the...

This thread is for early adopters of the Lelit Bianca

It is also for all who want to comment or Q & A about the ongoing bench review

I got my Breville Dual Boiler back in late fall of 2011. I was getting ready for a promotion at work that I was going to celebrate with a saturated brew group machine, probably a GS/3 because of their value in comparison to the single group Cyncra (that I really wanted) and...

Hello,

I'm a newbie so please forgive my stupidity!

I recently bought a new ECM Classika II PID with Eureka Atom grinder.
The first shot was awful, even with the finest grind, my machine is pumping out watery coffee, the flow was too quick (25 secs will reach 150ml), the gauge...

LM in Australia has started advertising an updated Linea Mini that includes the no burn steam wand used elsewhere in the LM universe.

Anyone have any extra details about what else changed in the update?

I bought a used Astra Pro, seems to be working great, but I noticed there's some floaties in the water reservoir and it's not the cleanest. I'd really love to get this cleaned up, so I pulled the top off to try to see how hard it'd be to disconnect the reservoir and just rinse...

I can't seem to keep the brew lever at the halfway point to open the valve, but not activate the pump (i.e., to allow for pre-wetting or pre-infusion); it keeps on slipping, which means I have to hold it at that position manually. There's slight slippage again when I engage it...

I'm really happy with my levers but with all this talk about the E61s and HX machines I just had to try one out. This was just another step in the path of figuring out what the ultimate espresso machine will be for me, and knowing that the only way to know what is best for me is...