Good morning coffee heads. I found an Enrico of Italy CE-12 in a small town antique shop for a few bucks. I know this is not a high quality machine, but it was cheap and looked like fun to restore. It is in decent shape but missing the drip pan and worst of all the portafilter....

My 5 year old mini started failing to deliver water recently. Checked and solenoid cleaned by a service business.
Unfortunately the problem continued. It turns out if the machine has been on for more than an hour or more - on throwing the switch no click and no water. If I turn...

I LOVE the Argos lever, but I have trouble with the boiler cap (thank you, a lifetime of working with my hands) due to creeping arthritis. Ross kindly sent me a spare boiler cap, so I can think about/make modifications.

Since the cap only turns 1/2 turn, I'm thinking about...

Hi all, I recently purchased a PID Control Retrofit KIT for Rancilio Silvia from Auber. This kit will work on my Faema Family but I'm having difficulty determining where to connect the Auber power supply (VIA SSR). I have been unable to locate a Faema Family wiring schematic....

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I just got my Weber EG-1 today.
As a first try, I headed to dial in my espresso. I started with locking in my core burrs against each other to get to the absolute zero point. Then I adjusted as the Weber support rep suggested, by changing the grind size 4-6 full numbers...

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So I've had my key for a few months now and I have ran into some minor issues.
First one is that the dial ring moves upwards when adding the beans. According to Weber it's due to force being applied due to density of the bean. But it's not enough to disable the dial and...

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I hope you can help me with the vast expertise in this frorum - I am actually very new to this.

About a month ago I finally installed my new Slayer Single Group at home. Quite an upgrade from my pervious 12 years with Bezzera. I am already loving it and thing that...

I have a hard to find gauge and wanted to know if it can be rebuilt. I know it might be expensive and time consuming but I just want to know if it can even be done. My pump pressure gauge is stuck at 7 bar. Is there a method for cleaning one? I know I can just go get a new one...

Greetings! I have successfully performed maintenance on my E61 grouphead once before. I have a rocket appartamento.

The machine is five years old, so I decided to get a generic set of replacement parts from blue-star-coffee for the E61, and set about replacing the old parts on...

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I've just received my shiny new VBM Domobar Jr Hx Digital. Lovely machine, visually.

Pulled a few shots to get it basically dialed in, so far so good. I wonder, though, how to think about the brew temperature setting. Is this calibrated to the boiler or the group, does...