by lsjms » Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:41 pm
The mirage is good as new, well done Jank, felt bad brazing parts off Agnes* Poor girl.
I'll drop my camera round, shame to go low quality for the finished machine.
I had underestimated how awesome the foot pedal is, first thought it was just to keep a hand free. The steam knob is still in play so you can throttle the velocity as wished, putting your foot down starts the steam in less than an instant and it stops just as fast, meaning you can get your milk to a really precise temp much easier. No need to take the testing hand off the jug, no over run, no waiting to pull the jug.
Jank may have found means to retrofit one on any machine.
*Agnes is a heap of spanish tuned-for-lungos crapola HX. She had to give up a small nut off her pressure gauge to save waiting for the post. As part of the ongoing Dark/Ideal collaboration we are going to apply a bit of whats been learnt here about hx brew paths to old Agnes. There will be some PID action, frameless exposed boiler, group head mods, hopefully a steam horn and other madness. Most important is to try and make a £20 piece of broken ebay junk pass the WBC machine scace test.
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