I had been looking at my local ads for a while waiting to pounce on a decent resto project. There are probably better machines out there, but this one is well documented on this site. And anything should be a workflow upgrade over my current Flair with an old DeLonghi EC680 for...

ive modded my machine with a lot of copper and plan to paint it matte black (its the brushed stainless atm) but the steam wand throws the whole color combo off and i saw that you can buy an elektra microcasa steam wand, which is copper, separately but i dont know if it can be...

Hello!
I recently purchased a used Brasilia Century as a winter project. I'm in a rut and hopefully can get some advise.

The machine has two power modes. First click, the pump and electronics turn on. Second click, the heating element should go on. On the first click,...

Hello! I was sent here from Reddit. I purchased a Rancilio Silvia last week. When I turned it on everything seemed to work fine. I flipped all the switches on, pump was work, water came out of the group head but as soon as I opened up the nozzle for steam, it tripped the GFCI...

i've done a complete renovation of the mushroom/E61 grouphead on a Izzo Alex Duetto 3.
Its really done magic. Only thing is that when i turn the machine on, the brewing pressure seem to go up to around 12 bar.. not that anything happens. But i have to open the lever up and down...

Hi guys, reaching out here because I really need some input regarding how to troubleshoot my GS/3

Long story short, I was making a small service on the machine and tightened my expansion valve too tight. Heated up the machine and realised to late that I had blown my manometer,...

Hi all,

After 4 solid years of use, my Dual Boiler has started to give me some grief. The machine is taking longer to build up pressure, and is not getting to 9 bar. When it started happening, I descaled and cleaned the machine and it worked well for another few weeks, but it...

Hey guys, I am a newbie but love quality equipment and good coffee so we bought a Linea Mini and a Monolith Flat Max grinder. We had an espresso tech give us an at home demo and we were on our way making tasty espresso.

The Linea called for a firmware update which I did. Next...

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I recently began fixing up a new, but damaged, Breville Barista Express Impress. One thing missing was the inner, cone burr from the grinder. Is it a five or six point star? Can I use one from another model? Does it matter? I'm struggling to find non-salvaged parts to...

Anyone has same issue where the needle of Bezzera Magica would reach the max bars set but needle shake/oscillates ?