UPDATED 49 PRO

I have the 49 pro, and preheat twice. For me it isn't inconvenient as it has become part of my normal rhythm and cadence. And I've also never tried just preheating once, so I have no idea if I'm overkilling it. OTOH, I'm leaning lighter as I typically roast City or City+, so maybe it should stay in

i use the 'pancake tamper' made by sworks, 49.8mm size. i've also used sworks' force tamper base in 49.8mm. both work great with my sworks basket. my flair 49 pro stock basket has 50.09mm inner diameter at the top (it has the slightest narrowing as you get deeper in the basket.) my flair stock tampe

Indeed, the dosing funnel supplied with the 49 'Pro' is useless. If you are still using the Flair filter basket, you can use this 51mm magnetic dosing funnel. It sticks reasonably well to that basket, is not overly large, and is tall enough to WDT with 18g doses, as well as tamp-through. (It barely

Thanks for the deep info. Do you have recommendations for a specific set of basket+tamper+puck screen to switch to? The stuff that ships with the flair 49 really doesn't deserve the tag "pro". The basket I received with the flair 49 measures 50.0mm, that's more than 1mm different to what Tom measure