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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!!
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
Gday! Ahh Barwon Heads... so beautiful there.. I'm not too far from there, was there couple of weeks ago, love it. And yeah good stuff, tis a great fun hobby, welcome to the forum!
Hi all, first post to this forum, I only just came across it after a recommendation from another member. :-) I use a Sylvia with a Mazzer Kony E grinder and roast with an old Behmor 1600 which I would like to upgrade to a decent 1 or 2kg more commercial like roaster one day. Cheers, Shewey
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