I was wondering if owners could post up their current shower screen of choice for their beautiful Vesuvius.
I've just replaced the standard screen with an IMS E61 200 NT.
I checked the flow with a warming flush and it looked superior - widely dispersed droplets like a shower, unlike the sometimes cone-like flow of the standard screen....... so far so good.
I pulled a shot with beans that I know with my standard workflow and discovered some spritzing that I haven't had before........ not a huge amount though did raise an eyebrow. Then after removing pf I had the puck stuck to the screen...... normally no biggie as I have had e61s in the past though this has never ever happened to me on the V.
I understand this may be just a coincidence though something tells me it's not - I have read on the tapatalk forum one member went back to stock screen because of this perhaps.
I use a 15g VST and dose around 15.5g - an unforgiving basket though something I got working quite well before.
I use the Kees van der Westen one. Also added a thermoprobe in the hex nut on the group.
Had a pressure gauge in there but once you've seen the delay in pressure showing on the dial, for me it was 6-7 secs, it just shows what you programmed in. Temp more useful for me as I use it at Farmers markets and ambient can affect group so I use to adjust temp by a degree or so.
I've always wondered this - I'm assuming it's because the water has a tendency to flow to the middle anyway and the dead space is there to avoid promote more water to the edges?
I got a KvdW screen. Looks nice on my V. Sorry, upload of images doesn't seem to work for me today. First thing I noticed was that the surface is much smoother than the surface of the IMS WM35. The puck sticks to it more often, and the outside cleans better with just a flush. I still use the Espazzola though if I want to clean it properly. Does anybody knows the hole size? (IMS states the pattern, number of holes and size on the inside as well as the size of the holes of the woven mesh) The dispersion looks nice (but I don't know if that makes a difference)
I had the standard screen initially, changed for IMS 200 mu, changed to IMS 35 mu. Tried the KVDW when Spence tried it.
Now reverted back to IMS 35 mu which I prefer.
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