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Hi folks, Enjoying my new Bambino Plus, and getting good results, but ... I came from a Rancilio Silvia with 58mm bottomless portafilter. The BP's 54mm large single-wall basket (the 2-shot one) seems comfortably full at about 14g of ground coffee. 16g can be fitted in, but some...
My new Bambino Plus is fine, but I had to program the shot size bigger than default.
Am I right in understanding that when I get different beans, I'll probably have to recalibrate that a bit, and maybe again for the second half of the bag of beans? If so, that's a great...
Hello. New to the Home Barista forum. Truth be told, I joined because I just picked up this very beautiful new (to me) old Victoria Arduino Venus Bar and this space was one of few that had any reference to a Venus family product of any kind that was made before the Simonelli...
I got the QuickMill flow control kit today and installed it in my Vetrano 2B. I then ran flow test at various settings as shown below. I looked online for some 'normal' values and could only find a set at Whole Latte Love that were a lot higher than mine. Are these values...
Talking about upgrade/pimp-up: The machines with sightglass/sight-glass often lack a backlight for comfortable / sightly view... others noticed this as well, and e.g. this post shows a good sightglass backlight upgrade on a Olympia Maximatic/Pasquini Livietta (the whole post is...
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I own a lelit Anna pl41em after so many years in my hands 2017 decided to take of the boiler and the heating element .
The element was in terrible condition (pictures following ) and I took of all salts with a Dremel and sand paper cause cleaning liquids didn't...
San Remo seems to have thrown their hat into the ring for the high end single group home machine. The design is very similar to the Cafe Racer. It will be available in 110-120v and 220v with a water tank. It has a manual paddle to pressure/flow profile real time and...
I'm curious if anyone else has considered a setup that includes an espresso machine that can only make espresso (no steaming) paired with something like the NanoFoamer Pro.
It seems like so much of the expense and complexity of espresso machines has to do with the contrasting...
I have a Lelit Mara PL62-120 E-61 HX. I have installed an Erics type thermometer. The machine idles at approx 200.0 C. When I pull the lever, temps jump up to approx 212 C. I have been flushing approximately 20 seconds to let the thermometer temp drop to about 193 C. After...
