UPDATED 49 PRO

I own flair pro 3. Problem, back to back shot workflow, need to disassemble the pressure chamber with hot water. You will need to be near a sink for clean up. 49 just knock the puck, wipe with towel and good to go. Built quality, the aluminium holding the chamber is not properly protected, and needs

In order to use a non-Flair basket, you'll need to modify your Flair 49 'Pro' by shimming the brew cylinder with respect to the group head; I used stacked small washers from the hardware store under each of the four screws until I got the height right - about 3mm. This is necessary because the Flair

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

How much easier, if at all, is it than say a flair 49 pro? I had one and it was a royal pain in the butt and big learning curve for me as a novice. I returned it. I also, tried a bambino and didn’t like that either. I would love to find a simple manual machine for a real espresso if possible? I do l

That’s probably the best way to do it, but I’m moving to an apartment and I don’t foresee myself installing an under sink or countertop system. Tap water still has more trace minerals than remineralized filtered, and flowing water has way more dissolved oxygen. In the past I have filled a 4.5 liter