L1 shipping update
No doubt many of you are eagerly awaiting any news of the imminent shipment of your L1s Here is today’s update – Morning Reiss Further to our conversation yesterday evening, the polishers finish early on a Friday so we won’t…
Reiss Gunson
L1 update
machines will be shipping on monday 12 august 2013 we didn’t get any machines out on friday as for the first time we are now shipping the machine in 2 boxes and there is a bit involved to execute this…
LONDINIUM II install @ Natural Foods Etc, 55 Clerk Street, EH8 9JQ Edinburgh, United Kingdom
We had a great time this week installing the first LONDINIUM II in Edinburgh As you can see, these guys are engaged in a refurbishment at present, but should be up and running shortly The fit out is impressive –…
LONDINIUM I build commenced today
if you are wondering how your L1 is progressing, we commenced a build today i would expect to ship some, but not all, at the end of this week
Only flush after the last shot in your coffee making session
This graph (click to see the full version) is a continuation of the graph in the previous blog entry, time is still shown in minutes Here all 6 shots are 16g doses and a pre-infusion of 10 seconds, ending with…
LONDINIUM I: find a lever espresso machine that’s more thermally stable than this.
1. Time in minutes, temperature in degrees centigrade, BT=ambient temperature on this graph 2. 5 flushes to warm the group (flush until the green light comes on for the inlet solenoid every time the element turns off) 3. Surface group…
Where can you find Frank Maxwell, the founder of Fracino, at 7pm on a beautiful friday evening in the summer?
Not in the pub Not on the golf course Not mowing his lawns But here, in the factory, working on his latest project
LONDINIUM II
have we got news for our detractors who think we got the design of the L1 wrong. all they’ve done is show us how little they know about thermosiphon driven lever groups. clue: the L2 has a cold water feed…
LONDINIUM lever machines, single spring, rated as 11 bar
As shown in the image above, 10.5 bar of pressure from this spring when the brew chamber is full of water the pressure exerted by the spring declines as the spring expands, i.e. as the extraction progresses so, if you…
Tomorrow, Friday 2 August, we collect the very first LONDINIUM II
We know we are bringing the LONDINIUM II to market months later than we had hoped but the manufacturer is having a record breaking year, which squeezes the amount of development resource left for third party projects like ours This…