About a year ago I bought a quickmill carola https://www.quickmill.it/en/products/lever-group/carola-mod-0960/.

In general it’s not a bad machine; I like the E61 system, I’m happy with the PID and it’s compact and looks ok. I absolutely hate the vibration pump, though. It takes 10-15 seconds from activating the pump to get to max pressure which is a significant of my shot time. I havn’t found a great way to deal with it and I’m close to get a different machine just because of the pump.

Does anyone have a vibration pump and is happy with it? Is there some technique you’re using with the E61 to get around it maybe?

  • anytimesoon
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    1 year ago

    Ive had a few vibe pump machines in my time, and none of them have taken anywhere close to 10 seconds to reach pressure. Usually takes between 5 and 7.

    Could be that you have a faulty pump. Was it always this slow?

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      1 year ago

      I just tried again and it took 25 seconds (with coffee) to reach 9 bar. With the backflush disk it took 11s. It was always kinda slow but it might have gotten worse recently