Our new OE Home Lever Espresso Italian Industrial Thermoplast tampers (OE/HLE-IIT) are a merging of Italian industrial design with our ideas and approaches to tamping for home lever espresso machines. The pistons of these tampers are machined specifically to fit the baskets for our machines with a tight tolerance, and are 5 mm high at the edge to allow proper dosing of height by feel. They are intended for use as a puck dressing tool, for smoothing, polishing and leveling the espresso dose in the portafilter basket as so much of the HLE preparation is dependent on dose and grind, not the 30 pound tamp as required with the use of commercial machines. Our tamper bases are machined in one piece with a threaded stud allowing the use of interchangeable handles. The handles are made by an Italian company specializing in industrial machine controls and are made of thermoplastic (a phenolic based Duroplast similar to bakelite), extremely tough and resistant to degradation and abrasion, as well as resistant to chemicals, and just beautiful in their own right. We offer these tampers in 6 sizes for use with most of the home lever machines, a variety of knob styles and great saturated euro colors. 43.5mm to fit the Arrarex Caravel. 45mm to fit La Peppina, Riviera, Sama Export, PV Lusso and Export, Brunella, Zerowatt, various older club machines . 49.4mm to fit Olympia Cremina, Elektra MCAL, Olympia and Pasquini small portafilter HX machines, La Pavoni Pre-Millenium, La Graziella, Conte Comocafe. 51mm to fit La Cimbali Microcimbali, Faema Faemina, and La Pavoni Millenium levers. 54mm to fit Olympia Maximatic & Coffex (large pf size), Pasquini Livietta, Salvatore, and others. 58mm standard commercial sized portafilters, E-61 Group machines, as well as MANY other home espresso machines! |
