Pretty much OOB but fully painted and entire weapons are completed and loaded. (Woops. Looks like I forgot about the chain mine as it's too big n bulky to be placed in the photo boxπ)
This is pulling the shot using the 10g single cup filter basket on the 51mm grouphead machine.
The shot is 1:2 ratio with 20ml output at 26 seconds.
Mocha Gold blend from Danes Coffee
DeLonghi La Specialista Prestigio
New arrangement of my coffee corner.
This time I put the coffee machine on the left to block out the sunlight from the window nearby. π€
I often asked why I would have two grinders when the machine itself has the built-in grinder. π€
To answer that, firstly the built-in grinder has broken down long time ago and with two grinders. the one on the left is the single dozing grinder for the Espresso Doppio grind and the one on right is the main grinder dialed for the 10g Espresso Solo grind. π
They say pulling the single espresso is very challenging and hard to pull off.
I'd say, "Hold my longblack!" π
In this video, I'm pulling an espresso solo, from 10g of coffee grinds into 20.7ml at 31 seconds. π€
Did someone say pulling the espresso solo is bl00dy hard? π
This is the rework of MG Zeta Gundam to be close to the Katoki's illustration.
This is not more common smoke transparent VMU but solid jet black VMU from the SEGA Japan.
As part of Jet Black DC collection that I was involved several years ago I got hold of this along with the Jet Black BBA and Jet Black DC Keyboard. π
Still missing the Jet Black DC Mouse though. (Not sure if there ever was the Jet Black mouse for DC by the way.) π€
After many years I'm still happy with my daily drive. π
It serves my needs and keep my right wrist in check. It's so good not having to use my right hand to punch in numbers but with my left finders.
I think I still have few more in the box somewhere in my library. These are the ones I took the photo when I was cataloging my collection but missed few.
It's Sunday so being lazy, I just pulled the usual 10g beans single espresso directly onto a cup bypassing the next step. π
It saved the time needed to make a longblack after pulling the shot.
The pre-Millenium La Pavoni single cup basket has the edge to edge ΓΈ 58mm, the internal 50mm, and the height 24mm. This is also the same filter basket that DeLonghi provided with their La Specialista Prestigio coffee machine.
Aa you can suspect from the dimensions mentioned above the usual 51mm tamper and puck screen will not work with this basket. It will simply stuck at the top edge of the basket since the inner size of basket is much smaller than 51mm. What you need is the proper sized tamper at 50mm and the 50mm puck screen. Now before you saying never heard of such size, yes this size do exist but uncommon enough that you would've never heard of.
Now on with how to source these then. Thankfully for the tamper, you can just buy the DeLonghi tamper. DeLonghi is advertising it as 51mm but actually 50.3mm in size so it works perfectly with this basket and much cheaper than the La Pavoni 50mm tamper.
The issue most of you will find is the 50mm puck screen. Unfortunately after extensive searching I only found one brand and it's in UK. So depending on where you live the shipping cost can and will be an issue.
For actually pulling the shot, you needs to grind finer, no much finer than the double shot. Fill with 10g of coffee grinds as 9g is bit under dosing and you will get the water puck. You will notice that your coffee machine's pulling pressure is way high - high enough to be in the higher end of the danger zone. Don't worry. That's the correct pressure to pull the 1:2 ration shot.
Have you tried to pull the single Espresso using this filter basket?
If so, how did it go?
Here's the combined chip map on the full board photo.
7 chips (CPU, GPU, CXD1815Q, CXD2925Q, M534031C-27, expansion connector, PU-8/IC-Link label), plus 2 dashed approximate-region boxes for the VRAM/DAC/video-amp cluster and the BIOS ROM/support-logic cluster.
This is a "PU-8" PlayStation motherboard, used in the NetYaroze (DTLβH3000).
Chip breakdown:
This build 00B, dated May 17, 1994. Panorama Cotton was developed by Success and published by Sunsoft for the Mega Drive, releasing August 12, 1994. That puts this specific ROM build about three months before commercial release.
The board itself is a real Sega proto board, marked "171-5694-01 8MEGA 4EP-ROM M5" β this is Sega's own multi-EPROM development PCB, not aftermarket hardware. It's built to take up to four EPROMs (here, four ST M27C4001s) wired as odd/even byte pairs for the Mega Drive's 16-bit data bus.
The bodge wires on the back, soldered across the J1βJ9 jumper pads, are what you'd expect on these generic Sega proto boards. They were often reused across many different unreleased/in-progress titles, thus engineers manually jumpered the address/bank-select lines to match specific game's ROM size and mapping.
Dial in with the dc coffee The Swell blend in 2nd try. π
In case you are wondering why the extraction pressure is so high, that's because I'm pulling the single Espresso from the 10g of grind into 20ml output.
And why not using the built-in grinder I hear you asking, that because its built-in grinder has broken down. Turned out it was cheaper to get the AMZChef grinder that was on the EOFY sales then had the coffee machine repaired at the DeLonghi service centre.
Other than X32 most useful Genesis/MegaDrive console you can have. It covers both cartridges and MegaCD/SegaCD. Yes, you can run US/EU titles but will need the magickeyIII cartridge as well as BIOS hack. Oh, yea also this is the only MegaDrive console with the S-Video out port.
I adjusted and printed again the same 51mm tamping station.
This is the version 1.1.
Compared to the version 1.0 this one's better at holding the bottomless portafilter sitting on top.
Sorry for the shaky video - it's not easy holding the phone in one hand while WDT and tamping with another hand. π
Coffee beans - merlocoffee Private blend
11.5g IN
21.7ml OUT
30 seconds
DeLonghi 51mm group head machine
