I am surprised no knowledgeable person has responded to your careful post. I own and have rebuilt an old Pavoni like yours and when I look at your photo, if that is your machine, I can not see the burnt wiring. If that is your machine pictured and it works as you said; why not use it for

Hi all, I'm looking for a hopper fed grinder for med-dark to dark espressos. These are usually SO coffees, the roasts never get to second crack. We have a Sette 270 currently, which has been solid for a couple years. The new grinder will replace the Sette, and the Sette will be used for decaf.

For those wondering, I think I figured it out. The element on the right side in the steam boiler just takes the cold water and runs it through a copper tube so that it warms it up. That's at least what it looks like to me as I'm looking at it more. I am curious

How about fitting a PID to the Gaggia? I'm assuming since it is a column of water held, it will be beneficial to hitting target desired temperatures over the pressurestat (?) system as stock? I guess there isn't as much of a 'system at play' as there is on an E61 HX, so maybe it can provide an accurate control?

To current/past Faema Faemina owners, I'm interested in the Faema Faemina espresso machine, however, I don't see a lot of reviews about it (eg, internet, youtube). Was hoping if any current and/or past owners can chime in on their experience with the machine. The good, bad, and ugly. Thank you in advance

I've made the determination that I need to replace my steam boiler heating element. I've tested it out and it's out of spec. Going through the parts manual, I saw that there's a third element that's the "Preheat Element", part number T.1.046. I feel like I'm missing something here. How is this element used if

I watched your video Jim and duplicated the results. Though, I did several tamps with some sweeping of grinds off the basket shoulders in between. As said, it wasn't pretty. But it worked just fine!! I pulled shots all last week this way without a funnel. The single basket seems to be very forgiving.

You probably have one, but just in case... I've found a manual impact driver to be invaluable in removing stuck fasteners. It does the job nicely when you want something a little more delicate then a powered impact driver but need more umph then you can get by turning by hand alone

That's way prettier than my single prep

To follow up my own post, for anyone looking for a Kaleido, I highly recommend dealing with Barrett from espressooutlet.com They are the only authorized US distributor and I can tell you that he is upstanding and goes above and beyond for his customers. Good man. I think I got a 1 in a 1000 lemon and most