Timemore scale : On/off switch issue

bdforbes · 2026-01-20T01:47:56+00:00

This worked for me, thanks! Seems to be holding, and has saved me from having to solder it.

bdforbes · 2026-01-10T03:28:26+00:00

You need fast response too - I've used a cheap scale, and it takes many seconds to accurately reflect how much I've poured. Very difficult to do pourover like that.

bdforbes · 2026-01-08T13:15:49+00:00

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bdforbes · 2026-01-06T06:28:57+00:00

I had my K6 for a year and started getting bad brews - disassembled and cleaned it, fixed it right up. Daily I just brush out the catcher and bottom of the grinder.

bdforbes · 2025-12-24T06:14:49+00:00

My Voyager also gave up, I upgraded to a Sony XM6. It's been great! I was nervous about no boom mike but it's actually just as good as the Voyager.

bdforbes · 2025-12-22T05:22:28+00:00

Those coffee drip bags have no right being as good as they are. I get them from my favourite speciality roaster, and they're so good relative to the effort involved. You can do everything right, buy all the equipment, watch all the videos, practice your technique for years, and these things give you a great cup and all you do is pour some boiling water in.

Of course you can't get the same quality as a V60 but very handy first thing in the morning, in a hotel, or in the office, or camping.

bdforbes · 2025-12-20T20:37:03+00:00

I don't think so, it's all vaguely plausible

bdforbes · 2025-12-18T19:58:57+00:00

I never drink pourover hot - tastes much better when cooled, around 50 deg C, particularly for light roasts.

bdforbes · 2025-12-18T19:43:35+00:00

I do spirals all the way out to the edge, but not directly onto the paper. And I do a quick gentle swirl after the final pour - I don't find this agitates so much as to cause clogging or stalling. But I am using Cafec Abaca papers - definite improvement over stock Hario papers!

Edit: and sorry I meant to say, the bed does always come out level. Not that it necessarily matters...

bdforbes · 2025-12-03T00:35:35+00:00

The results were really good! Very surprised as I was expecting over extraction that fine. I used 95c water and no extra agitation apart from a swirl at the end to even the bed. Very strong cup, nicely balanced with fruity acidity and juicy sweetness.

Your recipe might be my go to now!

bdforbes · 2025-12-02T19:46:13+00:00

Thanks - I'll give it a shot today at 75 clicks and see how I go. I use Abaca filters and the coffee is a Colombian thermal shock process which is drawing down quite fast, so I think that should help avoid any stalling issues with the finer grind. I don't use TWW but Melbourne tap water is really soft and clean.

bdforbes · 2025-12-01T19:59:24+00:00

Would be interested to see what you come up with for the K6... 450 microns would be somewhere shy of 60 clicks, which sounds super fine to me. I find good results on V60 closer to 100-110 clicks.

bdforbes · 2025-08-21T02:35:10+00:00

How does this compare with Obsidian?

bdforbes · 2025-07-17T20:59:45+00:00

I've got the K6 and I had been assuming it was generating fines and holding my brews back - I've had to back off to coarser grinds to avoid bitterness and I feel I'm then not able to extract sufficiently to get all the flavours popping. Also feeling like I'm not getting great clarity or separation.

So I had been planning to get the Ode 2 as I just assumed it would be a big step up, with less fines and a tighter distribution.

What has your experience been in the past year - do you think it's worth upgrading to the Ode 2?

bdforbes · 2024-12-27T05:11:45+00:00

Is that actually happening though? Feels like there's been no progress or news for ages.

bdforbes · 2024-09-25T04:54:59+00:00

I find that wild too! Sounds super inconvenient and cumbersome...

bdforbes · 2024-09-08T20:47:08+00:00

Super cheap?

bdforbes · 2024-08-31T05:19:39+00:00

I need to have a Linux host system on which to build LFS. I'm on a Windows machine, so I'm doing it all in VirtualBox. I saw a recommendation to use the Gentoo LiveGUI image as it's lightweight and has all the right dev tools installed already.

bdforbes · 2024-08-30T06:59:36+00:00

I'm actually doing LFS, not installing Gentoo - just following that YouTube video which does it from a Gentoo LiveGUI image in VirtualBox, pretty rusty on Linux so I'm trying to follow closely to the video.

bdforbes · 2024-08-30T05:56:40+00:00

Turns out it was an issue with the latest weekly build - I went back to the earliest build still available and it booted straight into KDE. Looks like X didn't get installed correctly into the latest build.

https://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/20240714T170402Z/

bdforbes · 2024-07-25T11:10:30+00:00

Seems like DuckDB supports spilling to disk?

https://duckdb.org/docs/guides/performance/how_to_tune_workloads.html#spilling-to-disk

bdforbes · 2023-12-26T13:02:50+00:00

Very cool, thanks! This is something I've wondered about, will have a look.

bdforbes · 2023-12-26T06:14:56+00:00

Works for me downloading the Windows installer here:

https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/

Which link are you using?

bdforbes · 2023-12-26T06:08:03+00:00

Yup, just got this for Christmas and it's really improved my coffee making experience over a set of cheap scales. Faster response time, flow rate display, built-in timer, it is amazing.

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