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- 5 minutes ago
- Forum: Buying Advice
- Replies: 47
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Help a lever newbie out? La Pavoni Pro? Wait for an Argos? A Vectis? Or, or...?
Hello again everyone! GD here (OP), Indeed, this thread has been fantastic. I've learned a ton. Little Coffee: that's a great idea about the spreadsheet and the priorities. That may be my evening project. As Guido noted, my head is veritably exploding... though I believe my objectives are becoming more focused over the course of this convo.
- 27 minutes ago
- Forum: Repairs, Restorations & Mods
- Replies: 18
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Convert to rotary pump - stepper motor
I knew that, I just pointed out because it means you can use more gears
- 28 minutes ago
- Forum: Water
- Replies: 2
- Views: 39
Need help to navigate through all water infos
^^^^ Those numbers are good for making 1 liter bottles of a concentrate, and allow you to easily figure the math for making up a 1 liter container of brewing water. For each ml of concentrate added to a liter of water you get a 1 ppm as CaCO3 bump in hardness(GH) with the epsom concentrate or a
- 30 minutes ago
- Forum: Coffee Roasting
- Replies: 5
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Using extension cords with electric roasters
Though, try it first. If it's fine with a 25' 12ga cord, no point it fixing what's not broken. I won't buy anything but 12ga cords for my garage and shop, but that's mostly in case I need to use them with a circular saw or some other high powered tool or connect some together to make a longer one
- 40 minutes ago
- Forum: Espresso Machines
- Replies: 8
- Views: 208
Flow Control pressure reading
I didn't know that. What kind of lubricant
- 43 minutes ago
- Forum: Espresso Machines
- Replies: 8
- Views: 208
Flow Control pressure reading
Likely because ground is too fine. After I checked it again I was dialing at 13g/s as my baseline. I will try on coarser ground
- 46 minutes ago
- Forum: Repairs, Restorations & Mods
- Replies: 5
- Views: 167
1964 Faema President V2 refurb
I got one of them off today. I had to secure the boiler such that I could exert the necessary force to begin loosening the fitting. It was quite tight but I did not yank on the handle turbo hard. {image} {image} {image} {image} {image} Here's a video demo of getting the stubborn fitting off. The other guy will
- 50 minutes ago
- Forum: Espresso Machines
- Replies: 8
- Views: 208
Flow Control pressure reading
At ΒΌ turn, yes I live in Germantown (off middlebrook&waring station
- 50 minutes ago
- Forum: Water
- Replies: 3
- Views: 44
Modified RPavlis recipe for both espresso and pourover?
Based on the "spreadsheet" linked from the article and my preference to use concentrates I ended up with this table: {image} In bold are recipes that originally use Potassium bicarbonate rather than baking soda. I also updated the epsom salt concentrate to use the same ratio as the Potassium bicarbonate concentrate, 5 gram to 500 ml
- 59 minutes ago
- Forum: Water
- Replies: 113
- Views: 31086
Easiest way to make rpavlis water?
Mineral content only affects the thermal conductivity and capacity of water slightly, so I don't think your mineral content has anything to do with this. If a blob of scale worked loose and clogged the steam wand that might affect the steam (and heat) flow from the wand