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  1. #16
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    Don't understand how you lot can afford to support your woodworking hobbies AND afford a decent coffee machine!

    I'm bloody happy with my Breville Infuser I got mid last year, and the big Sunbeam burr grinder. Does me just fine.

  2. #17
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    Quote Originally Posted by View Post
    I am glad I drink tea. Less drama.
    Where is the fun in no drama, it's like a new table saw that cuts true and is all calibrated straight up, you know that sooner or later you are going to pull it apart and tinker with it anyway

  3. #18
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    I drink tea at restaurants because the coffee is usually so bad.

    Re: supporting a coffee machine hobby.
    Unless you get into roasting once you buy a quality coffee machine and grinder, unlike woodworking there a much smaller range of gizmos that are worth buying. My machine and grinders are 10 years old and I expect to get another 10 years out of them.

    My current budget shows that machinery costs per cup is running at about 20c a cup, coffee is around 60c a cup, and because the machine is left on for ~4 hours a day electrical running cost is around 5 c a cup.
    I usually drink espresso but others drink milk, still works to under a $1 per cup.
    Still way cheaper that expensive Perth prices for cafe coffee.

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    Ever added up how much a smoker spends in a week, a month, a year, 10 years?
    It adds up.
    My wife is very particular about her coffee....
    For us, this previously meant a 20 min return car trip to get 2 coffees, perhaps twice, sometimes three times a day...

    Let's keep it simple... Two cups, twice a day, by 7 days @ $5- per cup

    That's $20- per day, $140- per week, $620- PCM, $7,224- over a year.

    Now this figure is conservative because it does not include the vehicle cost or time cost running backwards and forwards...

    Still think the few grand I have spent on good coffee equipment is expensive?

    I'm saving at least $5- on every cup I make!

    And the coffee is superb!, not pot luck....

  5. #20
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    In keeping with going over the top on coffee equipment last week I helped a friend of mine get his Mazzer Robur up and running.
    This thing is a real beast - it weighs 30kg, draws 900W, and it normally runs of 380V 3 phase.
    He picked it up for next to nothing from a cafe that was moving onto something else.
    It needed some cosmetic attention but otherwise it had hardly been used considering how robust it is.

    We converted the motor to ∆ wiring so now it runs on 240V single phase to 240V 3phase, alongside his two group coffee machine which he also converted to run on single phase (no VFD).
    And now he can play around with grinding at different speeds.


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    Coffee and wood; Can it get any better? Well, yes, but I don't want to do time in the sin bin .

    I will look forward to seeing the pictures of the new machine when it arrives.

    Regards
    Paul
    Bushmiller;

    "Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely!"

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    Carimali is up and running along side a Gino Rossi grinder (it is a monster), few weeks ago now. A few mods have been completed to the grinder including an alloy tube hopper and match porting the grinder and doser chamber.

    Original big hopper still fitted in this picture.
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    Yum!

  9. #24
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    Here is one for you Bob, Douglas Shaper at work in action
    http://youtu.be/UsGo94pyLuA

    I think you will like the end product

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