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I'm finishing rebuild of a Laranzato machine. It is branded Laranzato but actually has a label on it that says Club/ME. I've never used this machine before and never run a commercial machine before. I just want to make sure that I do it correctly first time that I start it but I...
I spent an hour and a half testing my Quick Mill Alexia Evo temperature at the boiler and grouphead, following this discussion about test methodology. Note that I flushed water to mimic pulling shots, but didn't actually use coffee. This would have been too wasteful. You can...
I'm not aware of a thread that showcases member setups so thought I would start one. Here is my baby (mazzer mini, autotamp, vibiemme domobar super + e61 thermometer):
Now I just need to add skills and might be getting somewhere. Newest editions are the E61 thermometer...
So I replaced my PF gasket (54mm) with a gasket from Cerini's. I think the one I had in there before was from Orphan Espresso and it's slightly thicker than the one from Cerini's.
The OE gasket worked fine but I had a slow leak in one area of the PF. I think because the gasket...
Wacaco has announced a new product in line with the minpress and nanopresso. This one is called the Picopresso . The previous model seems more akin to toys with mini plastic baskets and tampers plus pressurized baskets and promoting pods. This one seems a bit more serious the...
I started my machine's pump with the portafilter off to heat up the portafilter (I usually just leave it on while the machine's warming up). Surprisingly the water came out steaming for a bit, which I thought wasn't supposed to happen with Mara X on brew priority mode. I did...
Thrilled to have discovered this forum as a result of hours (days) reasearching espresso machines - and thanks to information culled here, I purchased the LE v3.
