I did clean out the boiler, and steam valves, and just offered it up on the gaggia lists for the OWC enthusiasts. The heat damage, brittle wire, and generally thrashed guts were not worth spending much time on.
I did crack open the old Gaggia Coffee pictured at the beginning of this thread, and decided pretty quickly it wasn't worth resurrecting, and broke it down for parts. So, I'm certainly up for getting into an old Faema, and seeing if I can get it running a little better but I'm fairly certain I won't be able to source any replacement parts for it.Ī thread on chowhound ( )from a few years back lists a few possibilities for servicing the contessa, and it wasn't looking particularily hopeful then, let alone now. It's Vine, and it's all the rage among iPeople Maybe you squares haven't heard of it yet. Make me a believer ZPM Tuesday at 5:46pm via mobile Like ZPM Espresso Adam Wilkinson Johnny Laine Carriere Jr. You probably know this but you need to be constantly checking it anyway, because changes in temperature and humidity change the size of your grind constantly throughout the day.Ĭall my shop in the morning and ask for Dave, tell him Jon Fenton said to call. I'd be surprised if the nocturn would have the steam capabilities and recovery time as the Oscar. We use those as our taste tests to make sure we are doing it right. We rarely sell single shots of anything so it's no big deal to lose one on the occasional single. It's not worth the effort to switch between the two due to the need to heat it up. The Nocturn is scheduled to ship in 2014. I don't bother with the single PF and just run doubles. Our flagship product, the Nocturn, is a home espresso machine that connects home brewers to the coffee community, enabling discovery and cafe-quality coffee at home. Nothing worse tasting than that.Īre you using the single and double ports-filters? Since you have a single machine, make sure the one you use the most is always in the machine, and if you need the other hit it with hot water from the tea spigot to heat it up.
I seem to recall the pump on the ZPM is supposed to be driven by a PWM. Switch to glass shot glasses, that way you know when to hit off button and not over extract the shot. it is now officially named the Nocturn gotta love the tag line engineered.