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  1. Lever Forum 💪
    Hey guys Here is a further thought/question.........do you think the purchase of a Niche Zero would further enhance the use of the Flair 58 or would you believe a decent hand grinder, such as the 1zpresso JE Plus, would marry nicely with the manual lever. I will probably settle down making...
  2. Lever Forum 💪
    Hi I am going to get the Flair 58 when it arrives into the UK. I too have been told by Doppio that it should be in August and that there will also be a non-heated version i.e. without the electrical connection.........interesting! However I don't think it looks all that bad, after all if...
  3. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    @Rob1 Rob you have the ACS Minima, what do generally find are the best temperature settings for the brew and steam boilers, set via the PID?
  4. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    @Rob1@MWJB I have just read an article on Clive Coffee re water and they seem to pay a lot of attention to the TDS and cite the SCAA who say that a reading of over 35ppm but below 85ppm is acceptable. They seem to be referring to that as water hardness albeit I thought that was a Total...
  5. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    @Rob1 My apologies, when I wrote the above paragraph I was looking at the spreadsheet incorrectly and thought that as figures changed the tolerance of temperature was changing but it is in fact the hardness tolerance changing. My mistake. @Rob1@MWJB We know that when I use the Alkalinity...
  6. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    @MWJB I think the Essential is Stretton Hills
  7. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    @MWJB so do you add anything to the Waitrose water to increase any minerals or reduce the chloride etc? It's cheap enough as water so that may be an easier option if it takes care of alkalinity etc. have you ever done any checks with some of the kits on the numbers involved in the water?
  8. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    @MWJB thanks for that so I could play around a bit with the tap water and the brita to get to 40mg/l alkalinity and my CaCO3 is ok at 100mg/l. as a safeguard I can always do some descales periodically which should keep things in good working conditions re the water I looked up Waitrose and...
  9. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    @Rob1@MWJB@DavecUK sorry are we not agreeing above, I say 40 to 60 mg/l and so do you? Am I not understanding something? Anyhow I cannot get to the hardness level the spreadsheet suggests and so I would either have to introduce something else into the home... a water softening system or RO...
  10. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    Perhaps the only way to get to any of the figures the SCAA suggest is to use RO and then add back the minerals that you need/require. But then RO machines often uses filters of one kind or another that add back essential minerals but to what level or quantity I do not know. And then you have...
  11. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    @Rob1@MWJB Just checked the SCAA website and they say: Characteristic Target Acceptable Range Odor 1 Clean/Fresh, Odor free Color 2 Clear color Total Chlorine O mg/L...
  12. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    @Rob1 I forget to say that the original figures shown in the thread were possibly incorrect. Perhaps the figures were misread or something because 3 further tests have been carried out and they re all in a similar range. So I think from the tap the alkalinity is circa 60mg.
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    @MWJB How do people test Volvic water for alkalinity, with a drop test again, same I have done with the tap water? The labels of these waters do not give you the information that one needs and based upon @Rob1 recent reply to me he says he avoids chloride like the plague, well they all...
  14. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    @Rob1 The kit I purchased is shown above in the thread, Salifert Carbonate Hardness/Alkalinity. Not sure why they say hardness when it is measuring the alkalinity. The literature says that a lower resolution of 2ml of water can be used but they recommend 4ml of water, which I did. Nothing...
  15. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    @Rob1 Having trouble saving the worksheet, can you advise what I need to do?
  16. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    @ajohn Thanks for the message. It helps a lot because I think trying to get to the best solution is doing my head in a little. Trying, as we all do, to just introduce a time and cost effective way of either eliminating scale (may well not be totally possible) or reducing it so that descales...
  17. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    @Rob1 I have used your supplied spreadsheet and after putting in some numbers I believe that if I use a mixed ratio of tap water and Brita filtered water I can get my Alkalinity down which in turn would knock down the Bicarbonate if I use the conversion of 61/50 re the alkalinity numbers (I do...
  18. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    @MWJB So, tests repeated again and they were as follows: 1. Tap water: (KH value in dKH) 3.35 (x17.86 = 59.83mg) 2. Brita filtered water: (KH value in dKH) the same as before (exactly) - 0.45 (x17.86 = 8.04mg) 3. Tap water and Brita Water combined 1:1: (KH value in dKH) 1.75...
  19. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    Hi ajohn i don't have a machine as yet. About to buy one, seriously considering the ACS Minima or a HX, something like a Bezzera BZ10 or ECM perhaps. The correct water usage came up as a subject and has escalated I'm afraid.
  20. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    So I rely on the Southern Water readings for the CaCO3 of 100 and don't query that, take it for gospel as being correct. Presumably then a Magnesium reading is not needed albeit that does get taken into consideration for the overall scale propensity, doesn't it? Then the 100 CaCO3 needs to be...
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