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I'ver recently seen a youtube video by Brian Quan about the Jian Yi lever espresso machine. It looks very cool, but I cannot find any reviews or information on it. Has anybondy in this forum used the Jian Yi or know anything more about it?
I finally pushed the bottom and I bought a Robot, which makes me very happy! However, things are not going as expected with my first few espresso shot attempts. Basically, I am not sure if I am doing something wrong or whether my grinder burrs are just misaligned
After a long time lurking on this forum and being inspired by the very many threads, I took the plunge and decided to make a project out of refurbishing a lever. First a tour of the machine:
This is a 1957 2nd gen Urania - mid generation single group. It has a 1st gen...
Hi everyone, I'm new here and recently purchased my very first lever espresso machine, an arrarex caravel v3.0 on ebay.
The machine looks amazing, I've got all pieces and the heating elements are working just fine.
I've received the machine just about a week ago and been...
Would it be possible for the Lever Forum to have a Gallery sticky of all the lever machines? If we own/owned the machines there would be no copyright issues. I think it would be helpful to all us LeverLovers to be able to see machines referred to in the forums quickly, without...
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...
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...
This evening Paul Pratt announced on Kickstarter that 50 Robots have shipped and that 15 more are being shipped every day. It's time to open a User Experience thread so we can learn from each other. This is also the thread for initial comments on the Cafelat Robot Review that we...
I've had a 1974 Microcimabli for about a year now-it's gotten a lot of use, probably about 4 drinks a day. I've had to replace the gaskets twice, which I'm not bothered to do. The first repair, about halfway into my year of use, bought me six months of great cappucini....
