Espresso Shots from a lever machine and naked portafilter

I have always wanted to pull shots from a naked portafilter on a commercial lever machine. There is something about the taste of espresso pulled from these machines that intrigues me...and I wanted to watch the shot form on the bottom of the basket

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• espresso
• shots
• lever
• machine
• naked
• portafilter

[4320577]

hey dude great video, I bought a used braun 3058, Im new with the espresso stuff, I don't know what happen with it I put two teas poons of espresso grinded coffee and when I turn it on the coffee falls in the glass carafe but it splits around the porta filter, also some little pieces of coffee fall down with the liquid

what should I do

[SlayerEspresso]

Your head seal is old & hard and needs to be replaced. Your coffee could be too fine as well.

[SlayerEspresso]

I made the PF myself with a drill and a file in around a half hour.

What was interesting is that you didn't see the column of foam on the single - and I suspect that if we were pulling double shots (pulling the handle down twice) with the double basket - that we wouldn't have seen all the foam, which I think is just the air pressure above the coffee pushing out excess oil & such.

Next time I'm playing with it, I'll pull some doubles and see the difference.

[gtcycle]

how do you make a naked portafilter from a normal one?

[furrycanuck]

VERY interesting! I'd love to have a naked pf milled for my elektra leva- did you guys get this one done in Calgary?

The "bubble" is freaky but definitely demonstrates a different sort of extraction w/ a lever, I guess.