About a year ago I bought a quickmill carola https://www.quickmill.it/en/products/lever-group/carola-mod-0960/.

In general it’s not a bad machine; I like the E61 system, I’m happy with the PID and it’s compact and looks ok. I absolutely hate the vibration pump, though. It takes 10-15 seconds from activating the pump to get to max pressure which is a significant of my shot time. I havn’t found a great way to deal with it and I’m close to get a different machine just because of the pump.

Does anyone have a vibration pump and is happy with it? Is there some technique you’re using with the E61 to get around it maybe?

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        1 year ago

        Could be, I’m using the built in one. However when I stop pumping and just hold the pressure, the gauge doesn’t move up anymore but almost immediatly a little down.

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      1 year ago

      With coffe it took 25s, with the backflush disk it’s quicker but still takes a significant amount of time (11s). Sometimes its more, sometimes less, but always around that.