Tag Archives: la marzocco

FB80 and GB5 bug

IMPORTANT: We don’t yet know if this is a one off glitch or common to all machines.
This is probably of interest to anyone who has competed or watched competitions since 2005.
In some competitions the La Marzoccos used were GB5 and FB80 AV machines – meaning they have a line of buttons linked to volumetric controls.  [...]

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SCAA/USBC

My review of my time at the SCAA and USBC in Minneapolis. I was there as an SCAA blogger, but didn’t see too much of the show floor and ended up being around the competition more. Warning – it is a long post with a fair few big photos.

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The GS/3 Arrives

This isn’t going to be a machine review. There are plenty of those done in great detail on a variety of forums and blogs. Plus it only just arrived today!
This sort of thing makes me childishly pleased, and it was pretty easy to setup. The autofill takes care of most of it, [...]

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HOST 2007, Milan

So – it is an odd year (numerically speaking), which means that the HOST show is on in the RHO Fiera in Milan. It is huge. It is obscenely huge. It is unnecessarily and obscenely huge and to be honest everyone could have had stands half the size and it would still [...]

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Presents!

The last couple of days have been great! Three different parcels, all cool stuff.
First off was a large box from Compak. I had no idea what this might be and I opened it up to find this:

They had planned to give it to me in Tokyo but it had got stuck en route [...]

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