Kostverlorenvaart

After 7 years and 1033 roasts one of the three heating elements has died. Luckily Michael Wong sent me a report about how he replaced heating elements back in 2018: http://kostverlorenvaart.blogspot.com/2018/09/coffee-tech-fz94-cleaning-roast-chamber.html I had ordered two elements and a couple gaskets way back in 2017 so I was well prepared, if a little stressed out to embark on this task.  To my great relief it proved to be very easy! Here's a self explaining step by step photo report.  PS I ordered extra parts for next time!

Tried to find out if the strong aroma of cloves, kept in a container with coffee beans for a week, enhances the espresso experience. The effect is very subtle. Can't say if it's advisable. Keeping some cinnamon with the beans could also be interesting.

    Over the last 1-2 years several radio enthousiasts have mentioned the Amsat QO-100 Es'hail2 stationary satellite but so far I had no clue where to begin receiving signals from it. There seems to be no shop selling a complete kit so one has to source and assemble the parts. Tije de Jong helped by building me a custom stand for the satellite dish, Hans Holsink ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDBIMjCUKtY   / www.hybridpretender.nl ) gave me some tips over the mail as did William Lagerberg, a fellow radio enthusiast who has built a small forest of antennas around his home. In preparation I looked for pages and videos of other setups but often what I found was way too technical for me, or focused on one or two aspects while skipping over everything else. So I gathered material from different sources, gleaned information from several websites and videos. But above all I had the help of Tije, Hans and William who enabled me to get there. One shortcut that I thought I was taking in t