Making an espresso machine from a (thoroughly scrubbed) motorbike piston

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/14/mods-vs-rockers.html

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This is fine. But do not use old car radiators to distill moonshine.

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Now that is making! Old stuff remade into something cool and espresso as well.

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And it still gets your motor running!

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I’m not a coffee drinker, but wouldn’t the aluminum and cooling fins cool the hot water too much so you don’t get optimal extraction?

Obviously, you’d have to preheat the cylinder first :slight_smile:

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This video is complete bullshit. Love the concept, but it’s nonsense.

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nothing about this rig will lead to “optimal extraction”, the cooling fins are the least of the problems with this.

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Can you clarify, please?

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And heading out on the highway

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Where you’ll look for adventure.

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And whatever comes your way

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Yeah, darlin’
Gonna make it happen

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Why is it scrubbed? Espresso needs that tang of gasoline.

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Drink all of our shots at once and explode into space!

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Pistonized espresso is best espresso. Doesn’t extract the caffeine like other methods.

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I see what you did there. And I like it.

Update: What @TobinL did there was part of a group effort. Tip of the hat to @timmh for pointing this out.

Update 2: Changed “culmination of” to “part of”, because the effort continues (@TobinL: “BORN TO BE WIRED” indeed.)

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2caa16

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A group effort.

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BORN TO BE WIRED!

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I don’t know if @GulliverFoyle was thinking of the song, but I certainly was in my reply :smiley:

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