Nurri Leva S.A.

Looking good tompoland ! Just keep an eye on those plastic Y connectors, as there’s a track record of them splitting with the Bianca. Lelit changed them to brass ones a couple of years ago.

MediumRoastSteam
I thought exactly the same thing.
I presume they are a higher spec than those on the Lelits but I would be spending the couple of bucks for SS.
It all looks good with a very compact build.
I am looking forward to seeing the innards of the Vostok.
Seeing Ryan’s rebuilds on his classic machines it is always impressive to see the space.
I know it is a trade off but I’m glad I own the kitchen and “The Studmistress” owns the Library. :)

tompoland Thank you very much, Sir!

Interesting that there is only one diagonal brace. Clearly the side panels do enough of a reinforcement job that it’s enough (or possibly even ‘too much’).

Amberale I presume they are a higher spec than those on the Lelits

they look exactly the same :-)

just a generic plastic connector, most use them, mine has one,

Thanks for that information, Tom. 👍

tompoland

I was always told, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it 🤣

What size tubing would you used for the brass connection. It’s prob worth looking at it for mine in the future.

You’d think they would be metal the small fortune these machine cost haha

Just measured and mines 7mm od so sounds about right

tompoland

For me the idrocompresso isnt in the same category as its not available in single group form and the size and cost of the 2 group machine are prohibitive to all but the very well heeled being many times the cost of the nurri. Despite that I believe the only things the slim Jim can do that the nurri cannot do are the ability to adjust the length of the springs and the safety feature to lock the lever handle. All othrr things held comstant is there going to also necezsarily be any better quality in the cup? I doubt that as well.

What happens it you accidentally vent the group

I’ve often though about this for both the nurri/Vostok

I know the kvdw has the lock

I’ve pondered that the vent on the nurri/vostok will be a limited size so it allows the arm not to ping back but come back slower is that the case

Cuprajake
The video of the Vostok releasing, albeit at the end of the shot so down around 6bar, shows the lever slowly rising up.
I agree that it must be an appropriatly small vent.
I reckon the Nurri would be similar.

The nurri’s venting merely causes the lever handle to rise slowly at a safe pace. Whether this is done by the controlled rate of water release or by a servo mechanism I do not know, but the release motion is very smooth and entirely safe and predictable. See this 2021 video for instance from about 1:44 onwards…

Just thinking aloud here, but… if the piston is full or partially full of water and the spring compressed… in order to decompress fully and the lever go all the way up in a split second, all the water needs to leave the piston immediately. If the venting hole is, say, 5mm in diameter (I don’t know how wide it is, but maybe it’s half of that!) he water will escape slowly, and consequently the lever won’t ever give you a kick in the teeth?

I could provide you with some mathematical formulae to calculate the flow rate and rate of decompression, but it would take me months as I’d need to re-read my physics books…. 🤣

Now, imagine what would happen if the portafilter on the group (54mm diameter hole) disengages all of a sudden… 😬

Cuprajake

Sorry are u referring to the what happens when the left paddle is actuated or what happens if the lever hamdle is pulled down on an empty portsfilter and then accidentally the lever handle is released ?

tompoland Hi Tom, thank you for sharing. I liked the video very much, the Western music was a nice touch 😀. I am sure you have seen it, but it is ironic (and might be a bit negligent) to have such a technology beast and the coffee coming out to be so thin. I would expect something viscous to come out down the spouts.
I wonder how this machine can be serviced but by a qualified engineer. I doubt they will go for a single group, as most likely not many would go for it, as I suspect it would be cost prohibitive for home use.
It seems the lever trend goes from strong to stronger. Happy days 😀

yeah accident,

so pull the lever down, infuse press wrong paddle/button and vent the group

i too think it will be a vent hole size to allow only so much flow

John_Yossarian

Apparently kees van der westen has announced that they will not be making a single group lever machine of any kind not even of the speedster nor of the idrocompresso. The former was due to the fact that the speedster chassis would tip over if the lever is pulled ansld the latter is evidently due to the very design of rhe idrocompresso itself.

Cuprajake

If the lever is pulled down and water fills the grouphead, this must mean that there is a portwfilter locked in with ground coffee inside to provide the backstop to have that pressurised state. Because otherwise water will just flow straight into the drip tray and the grouphead cannot fill up. If that is the case and if the left paddle is accidentally pulled, then the nurri lever arm will safely rise and the grouphead will vent.

Having said that, I cannot envision a situation where the left paddle can accidentally be pulled. The paddle is quite high up on the groiphead and one’s hand is usually never anywhere near the paddle at any time unless one wants to actuate it. On top of that the action is pulling and not pushing and so that is rvne more difficult to do accidentally or so it appears to me…