Lever Espresso Machine - tips, tricks and magical stuff

[peter]

She's thinking about buying it, but like most bleepin' noobs, she's balking at the cost of a quality grinder.

She must be related to you by marriage.  If she had any Harmon genes in her, she'd have the right grinder before buying a machine.

[grinderz]

Heck! She'd have 3 already and one on the way via FedEx.

[mp]

Heck! She'd have 3 already and one on the way via FedEx.

Yeah ... and have the 3 already modified before the fourth one comes.

 

[Tex]

Nah, if she was a blood relative she'd have conned Larry out of one of his.

[John F]

She loves the slightly under extracted coffee and low volume steam output.

The heart wants what the heart wants.

[Tex]

Well, the PV Lusso will be off to a new home next week. Parting with it wasn't an easy decision; it does make a sweet cup of coffee. But its drawbacks outweighed its strengths, so it had to go.

I will be getting another lever machine at some point, but it will be a full-sized commercial machine, preferably a 1-group. Maybe I'll follow milo's example and latch onto a CMA, since it doesn't look like a Spanish Gaggia is going to pop up anytime soon.

For all of you with PV or Sama machines, my hat's off to you - they're great machines.

[SJM]

For all of you with PV or Sama machines, my hat's off to you - they're great machines.

I can't quite get my mind around you not loving the Lusso enough to keep it, but then again it's not a SAMA, and maybe that makes all the difference.

Maybe you will like your next one better....

Susan

[Tex]

For all of you with PV or Sama machines, my hat's off to you - they're great machines.

I can't quite get my mind around you not loving the Lusso enough to keep it, but then again it's not a SAMA, and maybe that makes all the difference.

Maybe you will like your next one better....

Susan

It was small things; like not being able to lightly tap on the knockbox to empty a filter, or not having an anti-vacuum valve to relieve the false pressure, or the portafilter sneezes if you forgot to bleed off group pressure, or the fixed positions of the hot water & steam wands, ...

The coffee was great, but I've got other machines that make great coffee with fewer aggravating factors.

[SJM]

The coffee was great, but I've got other machines that make great coffee with fewer aggravating factors.

Well, there you go;  makes sense to me.
The SAMA has the least aggravating issues of any machine I have owned to date. 
None, in fact.

 :-))))

[BoldJava]

Leverheads, with OE changing their business model, might be a good time to grab some spare parts. They haven't said how much inventory they will retain on a continuing basis:

http://www.orphanespresso.com/LEVER-MACHINE-GASKETS-SEALS-PARTS_c_195.html

[John F]

Leverheads, with OE changing their business model, might be a good time to grab some spare parts. They haven't said how much inventory they will retain on a continuing basis:

http://www.orphanespresso.com/LEVER-MACHINE-GASKETS-SEALS-PARTS_c_195.html

Wow, mine are already gone...suddenly I feel panic. 

[BoldJava]

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Wow, mine are already gone...suddenly I feel panic. 

Yeah, other folks are stocking up as well.

[BoldJava]

Leverheads, with OE changing their business model, might be a good time to grab some spare parts. They haven't said how much inventory they will retain on a continuing basis:

http://www.orphanespresso.com/LEVER-MACHINE-GASKETS-SEALS-PARTS_c_195.html

I grabbed two sets of gaskets and C clips.  Figure when it is ready, an afternoon of Steve or Curly's guidance and it will get done.  Put the parts with the Gene Cafe parts (chaff door sweeper bumpers, mother board, fuses - Variac?) so I have a go-to location when I can't find stuff now.