About 8 am (7 am our time) on the way to the factory. Garage and breakfast area with lever coffee machine and baristas. Vesuvius in the background. [URL=https://i.imgur.com/i9xF31M.jpg][IMG]https://i.imgur.com/i9xF31M.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Spending my first day at ACS. The storage and extra production equipment, is a equal sized area on the right of this one. [URL=https://i.imgur.com/EJiqCBh.jpg][IMG]https://i.imgur.com/EJiqCBh.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

You might have seen my Minima being packed up today and picked up by DHL. Some really machines in different states of being made.

@"DavecUK"#p28878 great to see the story of these great machines, look forward to seeing more of the journey 👍

@"Verion"#p28885 I saw two Minima machines wrapped up ready for collection today, and by 4pm they had gone. One was for David Kidd, the other for someone else I the UK I think, which must have been you.

@"DavecUK"#p28905 definitely me. Got my DHL import duty bill at 6pm. Hopefully delivered by 24th October but fingers crossed it’s earlier.

@"Verion"#p28907 I received pick up notification but I have not received my Import `Duty bill. That is normally issued when it lands in the UK before it clears customs. The delivered before is a nonsense. They say that to give them 7 days in which to deliver it in case you live in a remote area!

@"dfk41"#p28908 I live in NW London, so hopefully on a delivery van and a swift journey round the M25 soon after it lands.

@"Verion"#692 @"dfk41"#4 Congratulations!

View from Paolo's Balcony, it's 8:30 Saturday and Naples coming to life. No factory today (well I hope not) because it's Saturday, but we were building something yesterday, hoping it will now wait until Monday. [URL=https://i.imgur.com/YYAMNsM.jpg][IMG]https://i.imgur.com/YYAMNsM.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

@"DavecUK"#p28913 - you got to have mozzarella di bufala while you are there. I’m sure @"Paolo_Cortese"#90 can source some really good freshly made stuff. Just don’t have it with coffee. 🤣👌👍

@"MediumRoastSteam"#p28921 You are bit of a food connoisseur aren't you :) Also definitely try Neapolitan **🍕** **Enjoy your visit there!**

My time in Naples

Rob666

Car names have been fraught with problems for many years. Hence the popularity of numbers accompanied by a single letter and the Japanese preference for very silly meaningless names. “Bongo Friendee” for example, or the Toppo BJ…

DavecUK

Set up of the ACS stand and Day one of the Triestespresso exhibition.

mathof2

It’s nice to see the amazing looking Ventus is still in the product line. No one ever seems to mention it on the forums that I patronise. Does it have “advanced” features to go with its unique appearance?

DavecUK

mathof2 No, it’s a basic dipper machine using a similar group to Londinium. It’s larger than it looks and direct plumb only.

mathof2

DavecUK It would be perfect for the bar in a yacht club.

DavecUK

mathof2 I guess it would. It’s known as Ventus, the Sail.

tompoland

Interesting to see your booth before and after. Its a lot of work, even just driving and setting up.

DavecUK

tompoland It was, left Naples about 1pm, Hotel at midnight to check in, away by 8pm to drive to Trieste and start setting up and unloading. The 2 ladies and the lad arrived by air at around 11am. It’s heavy work too. Most companies user contractors, but ACS are small and not rich, so we did it all ourselves. The days are long….what a holiday I choose!

JahLaza

DavecUK more interesting than sitting by a pool all day though!

DavecUK

JahLaza Sitting by a pool is not my idea of a perfect holiday…..I can sit around all day at home doing feck all, I have a PhD in doing feck all. So it’s nice to have a change for my holidays.

JahLaza

DavecUK Sitting by a pool is not my idea of a perfect holiday

Nor mine, that’s what I meant!

DavecUK

JahLaza I know 😁

DavecUK

Driving was funny, on a journey out to a tech guy doing the mainboards…we saw this. The second photo, shows the car completely full. The guys speed was limited only by the power of the engine vs the drag! 🤣

DavecUK

Amberale

DavecUK

I am leaning towards black sides and back with polished SS front to take advantage of the “mirror” section and a bit of bling.
I still like the black knobs.
Looks like I am going to have to enlarge the coffee bench.

DavecUK

Amberale polished SS front to take advantage of the “mirror” section and a bit of bling.

Yes, the black front loses the angled mirror section. I suggested Paolo fit one on, but he wasn’t keen. You could consider buying a separate mirror?

Amberale

DavecUK
I like the black sides and back with the shiny front.
Is there anything planned for the big gap under the front of the drip tray section?
It almost looks like some sort of knock box drawer would work.
Also, I presume the tank needs to have water in it even if it is plumbed for the variable PI pressure.
I can’t quite work it out.
The data I received indicated that the tank is not necessary if the machine is plumbed.
It doesn’t matter, I’m just curious. (Some people even say strange)

DavecUK

Amberale I like the black sides and back with the shiny front.
Is there anything planned for the big gap under the front of the drip tray section?
It almost looks like some sort of knock box drawer would work.
Also, I presume the tank needs to have water in it even if it is plumbed for the variable PI pressure.
I can’t quite work it out.
The data I received indicated that the tank is not necessary if the machine is plumbed.

I wanted an LED light 😁but no nothing is planned, it’s just unused space. However they will be making the drip tray deeper…on the prototype 1 group it wasn’t really deep enough and were were constantly draining it into a bottle….via a tube.
The tank does need to have water in it, otherwise variable PI won’t work. I’m well fairly certain the one group Vostok does not allows direct plumb, only indirect, in terms of plumbing in,refills fills the internal tank, as on the Vesuvius. The confusion may arise because the multi group Vostok’s don’t have a tank, but can pump from one using an external, commercial rotary pump.
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Amberale

DavecUK

I hope you don’t have much on over Christmas-January as I would really appreciate one of your “walk through” videos of the Vostok 1 group internals. :)

Otherwise you might have to come out to Oz to provide guidance.
I can provide steak, red wine and coffee. :)

Amberale

Thank you Dave.
I now have the quotes for the Vostok and the EVO and just need to spend a day or so talking myself into the Vostok.

CoyoteOldMan

Amberale Not that you’d go wrong by picking the Evo…

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