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- 21 minutes ago
- Forum: Repairs, Restorations & Mods
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ECM Synchronika will be 4 years old this fall. Any maintanence I should be doing?
I would definitely advise you to displace the water in the steam boiler with fresh water a few times. If scale has been building, it may very well be on the autofill level probe. Use the hot water tap and check if the autofill of the steam boiler works properly. If the probe has scaled up, the steam boiler may
- 1 hour ago
- Forum: Grinders
- Replies: 203
- Views: 26327
Pietro by Fiorenzato - vertical flat-burr manual grinders
The unimodal burrs are amasing for pourover. I tried a couple of different recipes with the Orea and the switch and it is crazy how it is not even close compared to the ZP6. I still have to do a few tests with V60. I assume it is closer there due to the nature of V60. On another
- 1 hour ago
- Forum: Grinders
- Replies: 3
- Views: 190
Kafatek MC6: How to Grind Finer?
Your questions have been answered here, but for future advice you might turn to Kafatek's own forum: {link}
- 3 hours ago
- Forum: Espresso Machines
- Replies: 247
- Views: 17621
La Marzocco Linea Mini R
Thank you!
- 3 hours ago
- Forum: Lever Espresso Machines
- Replies: 436
- Views: 43177
The Londinium R24
I wouldn't bother but the current set comes with sleeve seals. It's just not easy to pull the sleeve out. Mine are finally due at 5.5years, with machine being turned on between 7am and 1-2pm. There's occasional pump bark and I've seen few drops of water at the top of the group, so got myself an extractor tool
- 3 hours ago
- Forum: Repairs, Restorations & Mods
- Replies: 3
- Views: 50
Breville Dual Boiler 920 little flow through group head
You can see the position of the power wires in the attached picture You could check if the solenoid is supplied with the rated voltage and opens fully, it's more difficult if you don't have a voltmeter and knowledge of electricity. I don't know how you maintain the machine and what water you use to brew coffee, but you can
- 4 hours ago
- Forum: Grinders
- Replies: 7
- Views: 181
Stain on df64 burrs
I know what grinder it is. I was interested in what burr type. I've up to this never seen TiN coated burrs for a DF, only uncoated en red speed or silver Knight SSP
- 5 hours ago
- Forum: Lever Espresso Machines
- Replies: 3
- Views: 160
La Pavoni Europiccola tamper size
If you can't messure the basket diameter, then post a picture of the machine/grouphead. We will be able to tell if it's the smaller/pre-millenium or bigger/post-mill grouphead. Personally, I find 49mm for pre-mill to small and prefer 49,5mm
- 5 hours ago
- Forum: Knockbox
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The craziest %#*$ing thing I've seen all day...
It seems like they posted this a week early, like it should have been featured on April 1st
- 5 hours ago
- Forum: Lever Espresso Machines
- Replies: 10
- Views: 179
Identifying machine and troubleshooting
You may not be able to pack as much coffee in the filter basket as others suggest. It may max out at about 13 gm because you will want some headroom between the coffee and the shower screen, where you want about a nickel's thickness. Let us know. There have been different versions of this machine, but your