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I have just bought a second hand europiccola. Only 2 years old, good price. No sign of lime or of heavy use.
I plug it in, I wait for it to get hot. I heat up the group head and the portafilter then I fill up the filter with 15g of coffee and I mount it on the machine. When I...
I just spent about a week with a Peppina that I got up and running after a lot of fussing... the boiler was a PITA to get off the base and I had to drill one out and retap. But now it's up and running, and here we are. It has exceeded my expectations. So far, I've...
Some of you have probably heard the rumours, some of you probably even know for a while and some may know nothing at all. Either way, I thought it would be a good time to create a thread about the new kid on the Lever Espresso Machine block. Apparently Flair have been working on...
Just checking to see if anyone has replaced their boiler pressure gauge on the SCL.
It looks easy enough but it's difficult to access the gauge without taking the steam line out. There is an elbow which connects to the gauge and the capillary tube that connects to the boiler....
After a decade of drinking mostly milk drinks made from a semi-auto HX machine, I've gone deeper down the rabbit hole of espresso while working from home. I've upgraded to a dual boiler Profitec with flow control, but that hasn't completely scratched the itch, so I've started...
So, I may have made a very interesting financial decision.
I was casually looking around for a Faema Marte and was pinging some contacts on anything interesting. I was offered a few two group Martes but I was sort of hoping to get a 1 group. As I was talking with one of those...
