Whilst I detest the phrase ‘scratch your own itch’ as coined in ‘Rework‘, one of the most useful business books I have ever read, it is a sound principle to adopt when developing new products. It simply means that Londinium…
all technical issues resolved – i.e the espresso tastes great the focus has now switched to external design/cosmetics very easy to lose weeks of time fussing over details focus on getting the base model to market for sept hope to…
Before Londinium I, our spring lever espresso machine, arrives we thought it was a good time to give the factory a bit of an Olympic spruce up. July-August is the window of opportunity in our business as things slacken off…
One of the drivers for offering our own machine and having it made in England is we want to be able to offer world class customer service. How? We intend to have all the parts that can break or wear…
a quick diagram to illustrate that a lot of the ‘extra bits’ that appear in the E61 diagram are not required with the lever, specifically a non-return valve on the feed out of the boiler into the thermosiphon is not…
Our primary objective when deciding what kind of lever espresso machine we needed to build was; one that was easy for anyone who is already making espresso to use. i.e. anyone who is already grinding beans, dosing, tamping. While we…
A thermosiphon gives you a lower water inlet temperature entering the group, compensated for by a higher group temperature at idle throughout the group. Assuming it is correctly engineered, this should give you a more even group temperature, reducing the…
â ¦it’s because the guys who know what they’re doing, like our customer Roland below, make our efforts look woefully inadequate anyway, from a wringing wet mid-summer london, we hope you appreciate the beauty in this clip as much as…
What we are trying to do, and we might not succeed, is see if we can get Londinium I to work with the even higher loading that a twin spring configuration of the group brings. This secondary spring provides even…
the production model will feature these kind of controls on both the hot water tap & the steam wand as conventional taps seem phenomenally unpopular with most of you the entry level model will have black nylon toggles as shown…