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K_Bean_Coffee

I'm glad you like it 🙂 I was in the same position many years back. I had a Silvia and was looking at a first HX. I asked a retailer "will I notice a big difference between a PID'ed Siliva and an HX." He replied "if you have to ask that, you haven't experienced one." At the time I thought that seemed a little salesy but when I got hold of my HX I quickly understood. "Driving" an HX machine is an experience. Single boiler:HX is like small hatchback:big V8. Cheers Paul Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

fred1922

Hi all, just joined. My machine is on the second floor of my shed. I will post a pic when I work out how.

Brett_H

Hi Fred and welcome! Your shed has a second floor?? You'd better work out the picture thing because I'm intrigued and a fair bit jealous. Welcome mate!!

K_Bean_Coffee

G'day and welcome Fred 🙂 K Bean - Coffee Machines Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

fred1922

I have workshop on ground floor and man cave second floor, where I fix computers and do some video / photography.

askthecoffeeguy

awesome and welcome to the forum! Pat

Brett_H

Great machine and grinder!

Spin_addict

Hey everyone, I'm new here 🙂 and here is my first post. Started with a Silvia and rocky Got rid of the rocky and moved to a super jolly, I move on to heavily modify the Silvia with every gadget and contraption I could. In the end I couldn't do the things I wanted with it so I moved on to my next and current machine. The GS3 is lovely but i needed it modified to have the Strada gauge pretty much immediately. I also run a compak e8od. I hated the compak for a long time compared with the SJ but have now grown to love it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

askthecoffeeguy

oh thats a nice set up - must be fun to play with! can you pressure profile with the paddle or is it more about controlled pre-infusion ? Pat

K_Bean_Coffee

Spin addict wrote:

Hey everyone, I'm new here 🙂 and here is my first post.

Welcome CA 🙂 Nice gear. Did you do those Silvia mods yourself? That reminds me of a heavily modded Silvia I saw several years back. Cheers, Paul

Spin_addict

K_Bean_Coffee wrote:

Welcome CA 🙂 Nice gear. Did you do those Silvia mods yourself? That reminds me of a heavily modded Silvia I saw several years back. Cheers, Paul

Hi Paul, Yep I did it all myself, including the internal changes. I actually think we might have chatted about this on another forum a few years back as you mentioned. The Silvia was a great learning experience plus I enjoy tinkering. Stef Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

K_Bean_Coffee

Nice work Stef. Re Silvia tinkering, I only got as far as a slightly dodgy side mounted PID before I moved to an HX. Still, I also enjoyed the tinkering. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

admin

Hi Stef, welcome; must say that GS3 is a beautiful-looking machine!

Spin_addict

askthe coffeeguy wrote:

oh thats a nice set up - must be fun to play with! can you pressure profile with the paddle or is it more about controlled pre-infusion ? Pat

Hi Pat, Yep certainly fun to play with and yes you can pressure profile with it. I have full control from 0-9 bar and anywhere in between. It's not necessarily repeatable shot to shot because you are doing it manually but for non commercial use it's great. Generally though mostly I use it for long preinfusions of 30s or so. The modification is just replacing the parts on the group head with parts from the Strada MP - it's an expensive exercise but worth it for my use. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

K_Bean_Coffee

Awesome job Stef. Just amazing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Brett_H

Wowee!!! That's some pretty bling. I was looking at one of these a couple of years ago but after a play went in a different direction. lovely machine!

Koffee_Kosmo

The place I go to have panels CNC cut for various projects like audio speakers has a La Marzocco GS3 in the workshop office I often gave them a gift of my home roasted beans for doing a good job :thumb: KK

Marcmazery

Wow.. some epic posts. Coffee roasting for me keeps me sane.. I'm in a fairly high profile corporate gig working for the man. My home coffee business keeps me mentally sane.. working for me. I roast down the coast of Victoria in barwon heads.. I swear the sea air makes the roasts taste better.

askthecoffeeguy

Nice one Marc, and welcome to the forum! what are you roasting on? Pat

K_Bean_Coffee

Marcmazery wrote:

My home coffee business keeps me mentally sane.. working for me.

Absolutely - Nice fresh change from the corporate day-to-day. Motivation behind K Bean is to eventually escape the 9-5 🙂

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