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Where are folks go to shops for gaskets for their La Pavoni machines?
I have always used Orphan Espresso

So I am set with a 'minor' dilemma. I have two wonderful commercial lever machines, a brand new Bosco Sorrento and Gaggia Tell 2 group, sitting in my family's apartment as we prepare to move back to the US. Two days ago, in the town we...

I originally had the flair signature and recently purchased a pro barista. Now that I've had some time with it, I thought I'd share my impressions.

I currently have my pro paired with a Kinu M47. I originally purchased the signature...

As many others here have doubtlessly done, I purchased a Flair Espresso Maker manual lever, late in its Kickstarter funding cycle. I bought the "hostess kit," which includes two brewing cylinders. I also purchased their extra...

Could someone identify this machine please. I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but wow.

I've noticed a few Pro 800s with joystick wands in the lever machine pictures thread. How is such a retrofit accomplished? It is as simple as just ordering the right kinds of wands?

Hi all - in case it is of any use to anyone, I made a 3d print, via Shapeways, of a funnel to get grounds from the Niche Zero grounds cup to a Strietman basket, and I'm finding it quite handy. These baskets are 49mm so this might work as...

One particularly cold February morning, I got up to discover that the auto-fill circuit on my Brugnetti Aurora had failed. As I opened up the Gicar controller a few days-without-proper-morning-coffee later to figure out what was wrong (an...

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I was just contemplating buying an open boiler lever espresso machine... Just wanted to understand how popular they are...

I keep on reading many posts on strietman, Newton, Aaram..but still not clear on how they fare...

Can any...

In shopping around for a pavoni and reviewing everything that home-barista has to say on the subject, Ive found that drgary and pavil have both chimed in referring to some pavonis as museum pieces, items built to last. However, while there...