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I have owned an Alex Leva for three years now and never descaled. I live in New York and our water quality is very good believe it or not but I am getting some black substance out of my steam wand. Don't know if I should try to descale I just don't even know how to go about it...

Just wanted to show a couple things I've been working on. I made a wooden portafilter stand and did a single dosing mod to my Specialita grinder.

I made this stand for my second portafilter out of wood I had laying around. Common design but I rounded the top to match the top of...

Hi everyone,

I have an Alex Duetto 3 where there appears to be constant air on the brew side when everything heats up after changing the steam expansion valve. I've just changed all of the seals in the group head itself, so the preinfusion chamber/grouphead is not losing its...

In a semi-catastrophic failure, the gasket on the heating element side of the steam boiler gave out. Lots of steam, water and cleanup and and even bigger job to replace it. You have to remove and loosen a ton of pipes and nuts to get it out. This happened in January of this year...

Hey All,
I am little late to the HX game here but after playing with SBDU machines for 10yrs. I finally picked up a really nice NS Oscar (2012). Lightly used, the insulation on the boiler still looks new. No leaks..

First question:
How can I convert this pourover to a direct...

So my bezzera bz40 is working well with the new pump but was still loud as all hell.

I was looking at ordering the quickmill pulsor from Chris coffee. Meanwhile I searched a few more threads and saw someone using a Delonghi regulator. A further search, I have something like...

Hi guys,
Just sparked a question about the low burr carrier of grinders - I noticed that with 'cleaning and maintenance' videos and literature doesn't call for removing the low burr carrier at all. (grinders with flat burrs mainly). I could imagine that coffee oil and ground...

Greetings all -

Have run into a snafu plumbing in the Velox. Used John guest type push-in fittings and tubing to run the water supply line to the machine. These were sourced locally, so inch sized. The tubing is 3/8 , ending with a shutoff valve. Picked up a water pressure...

Can power cable and plug be used for both 220V machine and 110V machine?

I'm restoring a 220V La Peppina and I'm going to get the original ceramic plug. The plug and cable i'm getting is for the 110V La Peppina machine.
I'm going to plug the machine to 110/220 transformer....