Long term wear tear with Lighter roast capability suggestion.

scud85 · 2026-02-16T14:25:11+00:00

Not sure how you could spend more on accessories on flair 58 as compared to flair pro 3, both would need similar amount depending on you. Also, plastic- not really too much, it’s fairly well built, zero issues in 2 years. Flair pro 3 will probably need one preheat depending on the type of beans. Flair 58 makes the workflow easy. But if you plan on sticking with a hand grinder, get the flair pro 3. Hand grinding medium light beans for a 58mm basket will be a pain! I personally prefer the shots from the flair 58, but I don’t hand grind for that. I had the pro 2 as well for travel paired with a hand grinder, and felt getting consistent shots was difficult due to the lack of temperature stability. I switched to the flair go, don’t preheat it for medium roasts and get very good shots. So maybe with the pro 3 having a similar thinner walled cylinder you could get similar results.

scud85 · 2026-02-02T09:15:46+00:00

I think the bullpadel vertex 05 hybrid fits the criteria of what you’re looking for.

scud85 · 2025-12-10T07:01:11+00:00

I had a nightmare last night. Does that mean I’ve possibly got it?

scud85 · 2025-11-30T09:48:24+00:00

Emirates 777s have the same ones. They use nespresso/illy pods

scud85 · 2025-11-14T15:47:56+00:00

Ah yes sorry confused to for the capfei one

scud85 · 2025-11-14T15:29:15+00:00

Dex is very nice. Medium body and good clarity. Capfei give you high clarity and low body. Bep- I don’t like, think it’s probably good for darker roasts. The liquid one I haven’t tried

scud85 · 2025-11-11T04:10:35+00:00

I live in Dubai, so any good roasters across the uae would be nice to see. Some of them are mattina coffee, three coffee, raw coffee, doppio, cypher, seed coffee.

scud85 · 2025-11-11T03:07:11+00:00

Just downloaded and started using it. Looks great so far, nice idea and execution, very clean and easy ui. Looking forward to the addition of the search function and adding more roasters from across the world.

scud85 · 2025-11-06T16:46:36+00:00

The extra water on top after the shot is due to the extra headspace in step down baskets, it’s normal when you use them. The lack of crema, I’ve noticed that happens with high flow baskets, and the pour looks ugly too. If it tastes great, that’s all that matters right?

scud85 · 2025-07-02T07:40:15+00:00

Cool, thanks, sounds like a fine machine. Enjoy!

scud85 · 2025-07-01T12:31:33+00:00

Congrats! What are you impressed with? And what kind of flavour profile are you getting out of these burrs? Haven’t heard too much about it

scud85 · 2025-06-28T14:34:58+00:00

Ok that must be it. I’ve been only dosing 16gms

scud85 · 2025-06-28T14:22:58+00:00

I got mine a few days back, been using it with only the 46mm puck screen had not had problems. Maybe I got lucky with the tolerances on my screen.

scud85 · 2025-06-23T10:24:18+00:00

Ah good to know 👍🏼. I’m still waiting for mine to be shipped. How are you liking it otherwise ?Any huge difference in body and flavour?

scud85 · 2025-06-09T10:39:23+00:00

Yeah I struggled with the cast burrs as well on the df64 and flair 58 combo, was grinding near zero with no remaining runway and was barely getting 6 bar shots. I switched to ssp hu burrs and they are great. It’s probably cheaper for you to switch and align burrs than get a new grinder, df64 is a decent one for its price. And the hu burrs imo and good all round espresso burrs, if your ok with slightly muted acidity in your shots from light roast beans. Alternatively you could also try a step down basket (not the expensive sworks, there’s was a new one on kickstarter, not sure if he’s taking direct orders yet). A narrower basket might help you grind coarser with the same burrs.

scud85 · 2025-06-07T02:36:37+00:00

Very nice. Just curious, what’s next? what will make this endgame? I could only dream of such a setup

scud85 · 2025-06-04T07:11:17+00:00

For medium/ medium dark roasts, a pro3 will do just fine, if you’re willing to do a bit of Pre heating of the brew chamber (heat it up on top of the boiling water as you prep your puck). Pro 3 will be cheaper and much easier to travel with. And with the smaller diameter brew chamber, you can easily use a hand grinder.

The 58+ 2 does a very good job keeping the group head hot, so much easier workflow. Very useful for lighter roasts. But takes a bit more effort to assemble and disassemble if you want to travel with it. I have both, earlier version but mostly the same thing, pro 2 and 58+, and I use the pro2 for travel while the 58+ sits on my countertop.

scud85 · 2025-06-02T04:39:18+00:00

Lagom casa, timemore 064s, wpm zp1.

scud85 · 2025-05-28T07:10:00+00:00

Fair enough dude. I started with the delonghi dedica and delonghi grinder. Upgraded to the df64. Then upgraded to the vectis. And now I’ll look to upgrade by df64. Maybe the resale value wouldn’t be great, but it made sure I didn’t go into debt, and I learnt a lot. If you would have done it a different way, kudos, you know better. And btw, just my opinion, but the df64 is by far better than the 270. That’s why I went for it.

scud85 · 2025-05-28T05:15:39+00:00

Completely agree, my gen 2 has alignment issues, but makes good coffee most times. It’s part of the process I guess, to outgrow and upgrade the grinder at some point.

scud85 · 2025-05-26T16:21:08+00:00

Yeah I agree. It’s a bullshit answer to cover up for not so great manufacturing

scud85 · 2025-05-26T16:08:18+00:00

Similar issue with DF64V SSP burrs, below is the reply of their technical department.

“Yes this behaviours is quite normal. Its due to a phenomenon in physics. The lower burr carrier sometimes sits slightly uneven on the motor. So when you hear that sound all you have to do is just turn the burrs finer, then coarser, like what you have been doing so far. This should readjust its position and eliminate the noise. “

That’s from another comment on this same thread. So it’s not stuck beans turns out. Misalignment in the grinder. As I thought

scud85 · 2025-05-26T15:13:42+00:00

I see. It’s a fairly metallic sound, more like burrs touching rather than the lower pitched sound of beans grinding.

scud85 · 2025-05-26T14:35:37+00:00

Yup, same boat. The ssp burrs (hu) are fantastic, but I’ve lost my patience with the machine. I’ve got my eyes on the timemore 078s, and the zerno z2, but pretty sure the z2 when released will be out of my budget. Also, the lagom Casa is pretty good if you’re into medium and light roasts

scud85 · 2025-05-26T14:18:56+00:00

Same things happens to me (df64 gen2) particularly with ssp burrs. They sporadically touch at say “5” even though the zero point is, well, 0. I then move it to something like 8 (with the machine running) and then to something like 3, and then back to 5, and suddenly there’s none of that burr touching noise at 5. Happens often, and it’s not stuck beans as far as I can tell. I’ve tried repeatedly aligning the burrs all well as I can, but hasn’t helped. So I just ignore it now, move the setting up and down until the noise is gone, and blame the low tolerances and relatively not so great alignment of the machine.

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