Coffee Appreciation

Haha, I know what you mean. Although if you take the boiler out, drill with a cobalt drill bit, heat the area up with a gas torch and try and use a bolt extractor you should manage to get it out. I completely understand the reluctance to try when the machine is working in that state though!

Here's a vid of the adjustable OPV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyYeP68hXk4

And a vid of the spring OPV: https://youtu.be/txWyLHnuuz0?si=15Z8V5N6HTBowYXk&t=204

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You da OPV MVP!
Thanks. Clears it up! Will stick my head in mine and have a look when I get the chance.

@neu @Jonny69 and whoever else mentioned it.
Adjustable OPV confirmed!
And new scales fit nicely, so no springs or slim/wide drip tray required.

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In case anyone is interested I’ve now got the pavoni “dialed in” to a point that the espresso is excellent, so much so I was quite disappointed with what the best Falmouth had to offer.. the steam wand is still alluding me… am I doing it wrong or is a three hole tip just a nightmare for getting the milk moving?

A one hole tip is definitely better. You can get a domed nut and drill a small hole in it for cheap solution. I can send you one that's been done on the wonk if you don't have access to a drill.

Yep, 3 hole tip is useless. Like @Goyt said, an M6 acorn nut with a small hole drilled in is much better.

I tried a few off-the-shelf single-hole tips and they all had issues with steam leaking from under the threads so just went with an acorn nut.

I sort of feel like multi-hole steam wands were a bit of a fad like concave and convex tampers were. Single hole gives you a concentrated jet of steam in one direction, which will always give you the best penetration into the milk and control over swirl - which will do the best micro foam.

Thanks all, I’m sure I can find a m6 domed nut and a drill at home!

Happy Hot Shot Friday

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Realising you can open up the grinder and adjust the internal settings on my Sage Barista Pro has just given a dramatic improvement to my mornings

Orly?

I seem to have mine always on the finest of the presets on the dial otherwise it pulls a shot far too quickly. Presume you’ve tightened it up?

i'm surprised you guys missed that, was the only change i really made to mine other than set the timer by measuring weight output and adjusting until it was in the right range for my liking.

Yeah. I used to have it as fine as it would go but it would still pull an 18g shot in 15 seconds or so. I drink it with milk a lot so never that bothered, and too busy with two kids to do anything about it. But decided it needed to be solved today.

A youtube vid hiding amongst the useless ones went through adjusting the internal grinder, which comes set midway at 6. I moved it down to 2 and then tried two shots this morning at 5 and 6 on the display grind settings and both were great, the one on 6 perhaps edging it. Pulled the shot in 25 seconds. It was a bit more of a challenge to distribute the granules without making a mess but not annoyingly so.

That's my next job!

@HatBeard @mrJL ta both, that’s definitely improved the shots right away

Should probably look at the timer too

Smart Grinder Pro users: it also has this adjustment

It does - link please!

For work related reasons, I've got to play with a bundle of Sage machines over the last year or so - I've found that out of the box, they just won't grind fine enough so that you can dial in a light/medium roast

From the factory, they're set at 6 - adjusting to 4 (or even 3) has always allowed a grind fine enough so that anything can be dialled in (2:1 ratio in 25-30s)

Plenty of videos on YT - here's the first one I found

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNvOcE4-VEo&t=52s

Small tip - either grind through any beans left in the burrs, or vacuum out and then adjust to the coarsest setting, before trying to release the upper burr

Hmm, I didn’t know it did that either. Clearly never read the manual closely enough. I might notch mine round a couple of clicks next time I’ve got it apart.

Pleased to know I'm not the only one who doesn't give my burrs a proper thorough clean on the regular 😀

Where's good to get a coffee somewhere on the overground between sort of Canada Water and Highbury and Islington? Maybe between Shoreditch and Dalston but quite flexible. I need to help a mate sort something out so laptop friendly and ideally not crazy busy.

Allpress roastery/cafe, 55 Dalston Lane might work?
(Not sure about laptop friendly)

Perfect, thank you!

Lewes? Needs to be in town so not Pharmacie.