It looks to me like the brew chamber from some super-automatic espresso machine.
The silver bit is the shower screen on the head of a plunger that goes down and up to form a puck and then comes back up and the little arm on the left would push off the spent puck after brewing. Or that's my guesses based on taking a different one apart.
I clean my Magnifica way too infrequently. Even so, that thing keeps going and going, though it likes to eat the tubing o-rings. Don't think I've actually replaced any major parts on it though.
I checked it a while back and I'm well over 50,000 shots on the beast in the 15 years we've had it.
I have a MagnificaS too! Second hand. No trouble so far.
I also had one of those expensive Jura things, also second hand, then it broke, allegedly that cog mechanism is bad from the guess of a technician. The price I heard made me forget about it and just busted out the magnifica from storage.
My parents had the same Magnifica for longer than I have. I have to take orings over and fix it every once in a while, as well. I'm sure it doesn't have as many shots as mine but it's up there.
Great machines, but I can't speak to whether it's enshittified these days or not. I'm tempted to pick up a stash of the major parts or a low mileage parts machine for repairs while I can find them. Pretty sure a lot of the parts aren't made anymore.
I gotta see how to do maintenance on it myself. Right now I'm clueless though I guess the orings you're talking about are those which can be found at the front top of the machine.
but I can’t speak to whether it’s enshittified these days or not
Mine sounds older, but pretty much anywhere the water supply tubing runs, it has a red Viton oring around the tube and a brass backer that clips it into the fittings. That oring will start to leak as it gets old. They're a weird metric size so finding them was a hassle, but now I have a bag of them for that job.
I've also replaced the tubing itself with teflon tubing that you can get from 3D printer websites. They use it as Bowden tubes.
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I gota ask what in turboencapulator is that?
Well it's the hydrocoptic marzlevane, clearly.
Wish I could quadriple upvote this.
If you positively charge your grametes you should be able to
Thy micturations are to me,
As plurdled gabbleblotchits
It looks to me like the brew chamber from some super-automatic espresso machine.
The silver bit is the shower screen on the head of a plunger that goes down and up to form a puck and then comes back up and the little arm on the left would push off the spent puck after brewing. Or that's my guesses based on taking a different one apart.
Dingdingdingdignding
From a MagnificaS
Lol, right?
And here I sit with my $100 DeLonghi espresso machine, where monthly I have to burn the microfilter clean with a pocket torch.
If it brews it's perfect
For $100 it works surprisingly well, much better than I expected.
Idk I just know I gotta clean it monthly, allegedly, lol
TIL people make coffee with car parts.
Why has nobody seen an infuzer before lmao
Because we’re drug addicts and not connoisseurs
I run the exhaust through the coffee for that extra cancerous flavor
Honestly some of the most rewarding coffee I’ve had tasted like diesel
I clean my Magnifica way too infrequently. Even so, that thing keeps going and going, though it likes to eat the tubing o-rings. Don't think I've actually replaced any major parts on it though.
I checked it a while back and I'm well over 50,000 shots on the beast in the 15 years we've had it.
I have a MagnificaS too! Second hand. No trouble so far.
I also had one of those expensive Jura things, also second hand, then it broke, allegedly that cog mechanism is bad from the guess of a technician. The price I heard made me forget about it and just busted out the magnifica from storage.
Wonder how long it will last me
My parents had the same Magnifica for longer than I have. I have to take orings over and fix it every once in a while, as well. I'm sure it doesn't have as many shots as mine but it's up there.
Great machines, but I can't speak to whether it's enshittified these days or not. I'm tempted to pick up a stash of the major parts or a low mileage parts machine for repairs while I can find them. Pretty sure a lot of the parts aren't made anymore.
I gotta see how to do maintenance on it myself. Right now I'm clueless though I guess the orings you're talking about are those which can be found at the front top of the machine.
Eh we can all guess that they are...
Thankfully the second hand market exists.
Mine sounds older, but pretty much anywhere the water supply tubing runs, it has a red Viton oring around the tube and a brass backer that clips it into the fittings. That oring will start to leak as it gets old. They're a weird metric size so finding them was a hassle, but now I have a bag of them for that job.
I've also replaced the tubing itself with teflon tubing that you can get from 3D printer websites. They use it as Bowden tubes.
Saved for later, thanks man!
If it wasn't dirty, why did you clean it?
You can't know that its clean unless you clean it!
Well I spent a minute taking it out, and in my mind at that point I gotta spend another 10 minutes cleaning it
It's already out there...might as well!
Thank you for the reminder! After seeing this post, I cleaned the infuser for my Dinamica.
[ EMPTY GROUNDS CONTAINER ]
My machine has an identical part. Don't forget to lube the o-rings with food-safe grease from time to time after cleaning.
You are one of maybe 5% capable of it.
Very dull. I ought to clean my dinamica