Re: Never heard of it: OK-so-so starter machine for someone?


Tom wrote:
Yea, when I was looking at machines today, I saw that same thing for several


Both my machines (Pavoni Pro and ECM Botticelli) have boilers, and I
guess my Atomic stove-top could be said to have a boiler.
But while most cheap machines use thermoblocks, isn't the problem with
thermoblocks more to do with the materials used and their proneness to
corrosion rather than their method, along with generally cheap
construction? I believe that here in Australia there is at least one
thermoblock machine, made by Sunbeam, which is quite well thought of,
which uses stainless-steel capillaries within the block, and which
presumably should avoid the corrosion hazard.

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