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  1. Gaggia Forum
    Michael, I have the resistor you recommended and a light dimmer from a switch in our house. Any chance you could provide a quick picture of how the resistor is wired in? I presume the dimmer goes between the brew switch and the pump? That is a red wire on mine I think. The other connector...
  2. Gaggia Forum
    What was the roast date on it? When I last ordered from pact the roast date was weeks before I got it. I'm not saying it's definitely not your machine, but you can't run a classic without a grinder or very freshly ground beans that have been ground to dial in the bean.
  3. Gaggia Forum
    Yeh looks fine to me. With the un-pressurised basket the coffee looks stale, or too coarsely ground. With the pressurised basket it just spurts because of the pressure and lack of the little plastic thing. FWIW pact are pretty rubbish, I'd suggest getting some pre-ground from a local roaster...
  4. Gaggia Forum
    Pre-ground by roasters I often find is the worst of both worlds. Often ground finely enough but already going a bit stale by the time it gets to you, meaning it gushes through, and you can't do much about it. But it's often too fine to use a pressurised basket. Unfortunately your only real...
  5. Gaggia Forum
    Mine was PID £12 ebay. Rexc100 2x SSR £6 each PT100 ebay - non threaded. £8. 14g heat resistane wire - £3 per m - I needed a metre. A few extras I had like fork/piggy back connectors, but you are looking a few pounds Thermal paste 1.50 ebay. So all in all around £40 for mine. Although I...
  6. Coffee Beans
    Umm, does anyone not get why Dr Wakefield might be a terrible name???
  7. Coffee Beans
    When considering pesticides we must consider the rules of toxicology. I.e. it's the dose that makes the poison. For almost all products, be it coffee or foods there is no evidence that the incredibly tiny amounts of pesticides present in the final food are harmful to humans. That doesn't...
  8. Coffee Lounge ☮❤
    Yes, underlying poor distribution, emphasised by gorilla tamping. I guess I meant to say not tamping with force, just compressing the bed down and levelling.
  9. Coffee Lounge ☮❤
    Hmmm, I think the *need* for a tight fitting tamper is a myth. As you tamp down you are also going to compress that coffee puck against the sidewalls. IMHO one of the main causes of channelling is OVER tamping, causing pockets of increased coffee density which allows channels to flow around...
  10. Lever Forum 💪
    Good things come to those who wait. Better to do a proper job and put out a machine that works rather that use customers as beta testers like other companies seem to do.
  11. Lever Forum 💪
    Would green stains on a white towel be a sign that copper is leaching?
  12. Gaggia Forum
    I don't get how he picked it up for only £100
  13. Gaggia Forum
    Ah ok thanks. I am going to keep the stock screen as I don't rate the IMS ones. I'll see how I get on with it.
  14. Gaggia Forum
    Sorry, do you mind explaining what you mean by screen screw tension? I have a new stainless one but I've not fitted it yet.
  15. Gaggia Forum
    I think we sometimes get drawn towards wanting bigger and better things but ignore the potential downsides. So for instance, one of the major drawbacks of having a lot of thermal mass in a HX or similar is going to be long warm up time to heat it all up, otherwise that thermal mass will act...
  16. Gaggia Forum
    My only issue with it is how fast them temp drops during the shot, even with a fast reaction on the PID it can't keep up. Would this be improved with a HX?
  17. Gaggia Forum
    Thank you! The steam power seems alright on the modded classic, especially with the Silvia wand and a PID. I only ever steam for one :(. So would I get much of a benefit from an upgrade? I get a really nice microfoam in about 100ml of milk in 30 secs-minute max.
  18. Gaggia Forum
    I am wondering this too. At the moment I have a classic with PIDs on brew and steam. I'm struggling to see what I would actually get by upgrading to something like a Mara? I can get the point of a DB so I can brew and steam. But what advantage would a HX have other a classic with a PID?
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