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birofunk-
Ha, enough of a hassle getting them made up for our own use!
Just used the larger one (now with handle as seen in above pic) for the first time this morning, I believe the handle shape added about 10% to the epic quality of my cup.
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By the way, shouldn't be too expensive to have them made up, cost me $50 CAD for the three plus the handles. Handpresso charges about that for their own tamper.
withered_preacher
So as a moka pot man I've always been against tamping, but having done some reading lately I decided to give it a try. I'm not talking about espresso levels of pressing in the 30lb range, this is basically just letting the tampers own weight do the job, and also evening out the ground coffee.
There are very few tampers available that would be the right size for my makers so I contacted a local machinist and had him make three for me, two for my mokas and one for my wife's Handpresso.
They're 20mm high and from left to right, 43mm, 55mm, and 34.5mm wide. All the bases are brass, tapped for 8-32 so that we're free to use any one of millions of drawer pulls that are out there - the current ones are stainless steel.
The coffee is better, though I have to crank down the tops of the mokas to prevent steam escaping through the threads since the pressure has to come up a little more to get past the pressed grounds.