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2 things - 1 - you need fresh coffee - not more than 14 days post roast. Stale coffee contributes to fast draw times.

2 - you can probably recalibrate that grinde by stripping the top and resetting the burrs closer together - takes longer to explain than to do - think there are explanations on home-barista.com on how to set the zero point on small grinders - they are all fundametally the same internally.

I’ll try this, thanks!

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Hi guys

 

We're renovating our kitchen so I'm thinking of upgrading my coffee setup at the same time.

 

I have an Expobar Office Leva and a Baratza Vario grinder that I may want to sell. Is there any interest?

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Hi guys

 

We're renovating our kitchen so I'm thinking of upgrading my coffee setup at the same time.

 

I have an Expobar Office Leva and a Baratza Vario grinder that I may want to sell. Is there any interest?

How much?

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Hi guys

 

We're renovating our kitchen so I'm thinking of upgrading my coffee setup at the same time.

 

I have an Expobar Office Leva and a Baratza Vario grinder that I may want to sell. Is there any interest?

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South African Coffee Classifieds on FB...

 

What are you looking for?

Thanks, I have joined them.

 

I bought a Gaggia baby class recently on Gumtree with no water flowing out of the grouphead. Took it apart and cleaned the solenoid valve now it works a treat.

 

The problem is that it came with a panarello style steam wand, with my previous machine I managed to steam the milk just fine without it so I am looking to replace or mod it somehow.

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I have run a bag through mine and I was planning on having a look at that (only using aeropress for now but want to take the Delonghi out of storage soon and try that). I haven't done the research but I can't imagine it being more than a shim or two to set the zero point.

They usually have the top burr on a threaded carrier - an it's only a question of removing the lock/stop, tightening the bur down till just off touching the lower burr, then replacing the lock/stop and reassembling the grinder.

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Thanks, I have joined them.

 

I bought a Gaggia baby class recently on Gumtree with no water flowing out of the grouphead. Took it apart and cleaned the solenoid valve now it works a treat.

 

The problem is that it came with a panarello style steam wand, with my previous machine I managed to steam the milk just fine without it so I am looking to replace or mod it somehow.

hey bud, we carry all spares for Gaggia www.nexusgroup.co.za

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Thanks, I have joined them.

 

I bought a Gaggia baby class recently on Gumtree with no water flowing out of the grouphead. Took it apart and cleaned the solenoid valve now it works a treat.

 

The problem is that it came with a panarello style steam wand, with my previous machine I managed to steam the milk just fine without it so I am looking to replace or mod it somehow.

 

If i recall you can mod it with a Rancillio Silvia steam wand.. maybe look at that avenue? 

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If i recall you can mod it with a Rancillio Silvia steam wand.. maybe look at that avenue?

I saw a few mentions to people doing that, I thought of doing that as well or maybe the "latte-art" attachement that screws onto the exising wand.

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I had a Gaggia Classic for quite a long time - I changed out the steam wand for the Rancilio one and it made a huge difference. I also got a bottomless porta filter and stuck a temperature probe in next to the boiler to watch the temperature cycle.

 

If i recall you can mod it with a Rancillio Silvia steam wand.. maybe look at that avenue? 

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