Paul_Pratt Senior Member Joined: 2 Sep 2002 Posts: 302 Location: Hong Kong Expertise: Professional
Espresso: Marzocco SMAL + GS Grinder: Vulcano Drip: Pourover cone works best for... Roaster: Probat
Posted Thu Dec 20, 2007, 11:42pm Subject: Re: A Legend is Reborn - Faema E61 Restoration Part 2 by Paul Pratt
MarshallF Said:
Paul, apart from the beauty of your work, I'm still trying to get my head around your ability to send off 150 parts to the chrome plater ... and remember where they all came from three days later. Very impressive. I'm still working on 10 parts and 10 minutes....
Posted Fri Dec 21, 2007, 7:08am Subject: Re: A Legend is Reborn - Faema E61 Restoration Part 2 by Paul Pratt
fab article...i work on Faema e61 legend s3 daily in my caffe and all i can say that this machine is so different than others, so much of passion, so much of lines, chromed, shiny, feminine, something special, strange is that so many people wants to touch 'her', take a picture with......btw, my Faema shines in red in the back and it looks like some heater in the back, some Star Wars battle ship...so may the force be with You Paul. Thanks for going back to origins...
Paul_Pratt Senior Member Joined: 2 Sep 2002 Posts: 302 Location: Hong Kong Expertise: Professional
Espresso: Marzocco SMAL + GS Grinder: Vulcano Drip: Pourover cone works best for... Roaster: Probat
Posted Thu Apr 10, 2008, 9:02pm Subject: Re: A Legend is Reborn - Faema E61 Restoration Part 2 by Paul Pratt
A quick update on the machine. Recently I have had an enquiry to put the machine into use in a small cafe/gallery. In order to make it more user-friendly I have added an auto-fill, which took a bit of head scratching to work out how this could be achieved without any permanent modifications. Everything works as should and it could all be removed within 30 minutes if need be.
The other issue was the coffee quality. I have now spent a good few weeks playing around with various flow restrictors on the heat exchanger loop in an effort to drop the idle temperature of the brew water. I settled on 2mm flow restrictors. These are small brass discs that are inserted into the back of the group. The result was that it dropped the water from idle (rock up to machine and brew using a Mr. Scace) down to around 96-97. Further modification by inserting more restrictors into another secrect location has dropped the temp again down to a more respectable 94-95.
The result of all this is that it does not require any water dancing or flushing routine and is good to go, if anything it would benefit from a slight blip of the brew lever to bring the temps up.
Should the new trustees (I may just loan the machine rather than sell it) decide to use it, I will update with some pictures.
fatnat79 Senior Member Joined: 25 Apr 2007 Posts: 148 Location: Los Angeles, CA Expertise: I live coffee
Espresso: Grimac Mini Grinder: K30 ES Vac Pot: Yama / Bodum Santos Drip: Bodum French Press Roaster: Gene Cafe / Popcorn Roaster
Posted Wed Nov 17, 2010, 11:32am Subject: Re: A Legend is Reborn - Faema E61 Restoration Part 2 by Paul Pratt
Paul_Pratt Said:
I have now spent a good few weeks playing around with various flow restrictors on the heat exchanger loop in an effort to drop the idle temperature of the brew water. I settled on 2mm flow restrictors. These are small brass discs that are inserted into the back of the group. The result was that it dropped the water from idle (rock up to machine and brew using a Mr. Scace) down to around 96-97. Further modification by inserting more restrictors into another secrect location has dropped the temp again down to a more respectable 94-95.
The result of all this is that it does not require any water dancing or flushing routine and is good to go, if anything it would benefit from a slight blip of the brew lever to bring the temps up. Paul
I am very interested in applying these flow restrictors Paul speaks about on my Grimac Mini as I seem to have to flush the group a lot more than I would like in between shots but like to keep the boiler pressure up for steaming power. Can't I have both?
Are these restrictors specific to each machine or are they universal? Where can I get them? Any guesses as to what the other "secret location" may be?
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