My new (old) Expobar Office Control - Using Lelit Basket

RichardM

Seriously, forget this thread. Keep it here, just to know that this was a REALLY bad idea. After about the fifth shot, the basket slipped in at an angle and wouldn't lock. I then tried to pry the basket out (with coffee in it....wtf was I thinking?????) and then ended up with ~18g of coffee EVERYWHERE.

Muscles

Bugger, I know that feeling when the gound coffee goes EVERYWHERE... Every few weeks my Synesso double will decide it doesn't like being in my naked portafilter and literally jumps out. Seems to only happen when it's full of ground coffee - never when it's empty ???

RichardM

Muscles wrote:

Bugger, I know that feeling when the gound coffee goes EVERYWHERE... Every few weeks my Synesso double will decide it doesn't like being in my naked portafilter and literally jumps out. Seems to only happen when it's full of ground coffee - never when it's empty ???

Glad to hear I'm not the only one that has happened to. Coffee grinds get into everything. It's especially hard to get off tile grout, as it sticks in the roughness, but you can't use a wet cloth or it stains.

Lacehim

RichardM, Did AM look over your machine for ya? Your in Toowoomba aren't ya? I like the synesso baskets 58mm when I had commercial groups. They seem to be well liked and forgiving. I had a double and a triple but the triple might need a naked if your groups are shallow. Also, wheres the piccy of the new machine? Would love to see the new set up.

RichardM

Lacehim wrote:

RichardM, Did AM look over your machine for ya? Your in Toowoomba aren't ya? I like the synesso baskets 58mm when I had commercial groups. They seem to be well liked and forgiving. I had a double and a triple but the triple might need a naked if your groups are shallow. Also, wheres the piccy of the new machine? Would love to see the new set up.

I'm in Toowoomba, yeah. AM gave me a fair bit of advice and reassurance to get it up and running via PM. I probably will get synesso's soon. Have kind of decided against VST's. I'm really impressed with the coffee it puts out though. So much more body in the cup than the Lelit had (which surprised me actually). I've only got a dodgy cameraphone pic because the batteries are dead on the camera (the missus had her hens night on saturday.....). The yellow looks pastel in the photo, but think Bumblebee from Transformers. Will update the photo in a few days:

Muscles

Nice, are you planning on transforming the SJ to bumblebee's offsider?

RichardM

Muscles wrote:

Nice, are you planning on transforming the SJ to bumblebee's offsider?

While it would look awesome in red (or dressed up as Megan Fox), I will leave it as it is. The paint job on the SJ's are just too damn good to mess with.

shape_shifter

Richard I actually really like the yellow 🙂

RichardM

So I bit the bullet today and ordered a new base for the Pullman Deluxe and synesso ridgeless double basket. When the missus said "we need to get a new base for the tamper", I logged onto Things Coffee and placed the order before she'd finished pulling the shot.

askthecoffeeguy

Man that's a serious amount of coffee cups / glasses on top of your machine - are you planning on entertaining ? Pat