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 don’t take care to get a full brew chamber of water when you run this test you will observe an artificially low spring pressure value