I have been lurking around the last few months reading up on espresso machines. I am ready to pull the trigger but I thought I would reach out for last minute input as I am struggling with the decision. I have information overload right now and I can't find anybody local...

I'm repairing an Isomac Tea Cool for a friend, about 10-11 years old (the machine that is).
It was never cleaned, so everything was clogged of course.
The machine is dismanteled, descaled several times, backflushed and manually cleaned.
I also dismanteled the E61 grouphead and...

I saw a while ago a thread about using an external keypad to change the Air, Drum speed, Damper, Burner settings.

Hard-Wiring Artisan Event Buttons

It turns out that if you type a prefix letter followed by two numbers, you can set those values from the keyboard. (Q,W,E,R...

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I've been lurking around for perhaps too long ^_^

I have sold my Gaggia Classic Pro because I wanted to upgrade to a Lelit Elizabeth. Life happened, the budget was allocated elsewhere and meanwhile, we're drinking pour-over coffee which is perfectly fine, but my wife...

Branching off the main Cafelat Robot thread as that one has become so long...

I last replaced my Cafelat Robot piston seal on March 7th (documented in this post ). Since that time (131 days), I've pulled around 400 shots (~3 shots per day with an occasional extra shot here and...

I keep seeing reviews of mid-range grinders with conical burrs that all seem to produce coffee with higher clarity (and less body) than the Niche Zero. Included in these are the Goat Story Arco, Option-O Lagom Mini, Turin SD40, Baratza Encore and even most premium hand-grinders...

Hello lever fans.
Has anyone followed the Londinium forum and saw that Reiss is developing a new compact spring lever model? He won't offer many details but I think it's going to be around the size of a Cremina with a bit larger boiler and a 58mm spring lever group. It will be...

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My Rocket Appartamento, purchased in 2016, keeps having the boiler turn off randomly, usually every few days. I open the machine up and wiggle the wires connected to the thermostat, the one with the thicker black wires, turn the machine back on and it starts to heat again,...

It's been a couple of years now that some people must have been using their Ode to grind espresso on a semi-regular basis with the SSP Multipurpose burrs?

Has anyone done this and managed to burn their motor out yet?

It seems like the Fellow Ode has a more powerful motor than...

Hello everybody, I'm Henry, Italy based. A newbie on this forum and in coffee world.
A few days ago, for a bunch of bucks, I saved from a dusty and old warehouse a Rancilio Epoca S1,
After a mild clean up first issue that I founded is that boiler pressure gauge floating around...