IMS E61 Nanotec Precision Shower Screen - E61 200 NT

IMS is the manufacturer of choice for many machine brands shower screens and baskets and their own items are absolutely fantastic replacement parts for maintenance. This shower screen performs absolutely perfectly and stays extremely clean allowing for ease of maintenance for a home barista. I have tried other brands shower screens, even with nano tech coatings, ironically many made by IMS to their specs but none ever performed like this showerscreen. It is the only one I want to have in my Rocket machine

I put this in my Lelit Bianca v3, the stock shower screen used to produce a single stream of water while this one produces a surface full of separate droplets that don't disturb the puck as much, it's ideal for preinfusion. The result is better, I can clearly see in the bottom of the filter that the coffee drops start showing in all the surface at the same time, while before installing this shower screen they used to start appearing on the outher side of the surface first.

My ECM Technika V Profi PID is about a year old and I decided it was time to upgrade the E61 group head shower screen and gasket. The 8.5mm silicone gasket was a no brainer, but I was initially reluctant to purchase the IMS Nanotec E61 200 NT Precision Shower Screen because I had previously purchased the same item for my old Profitec 500 PID Espresso Maker and had to return it because it did NOT fit. After rolling the dice on the same screen for the ECM, I'm very happy to report an absolutely perfect fit. "Precision" is an understatement and the quality of the build is phenomenal. The performance upgrade was immediately visible with the group head water flow spread evenly for consistently amazing pulls. Summary: Highly recommended upgrade for an ECM Technika V Profi PID. There are few upgrades in the prosumer espresso machine world that can be done so cost effectively. A good time to do so is with a silicone gasket upgrade. It takes about a forty buck investment to do both through Amazon. IMO...a real bargain! Remember to lightly coat the gasket with a food grade silicone lubricant.

Works really well. Seems to minimize channeling. Stays much cleaner than the previous one with almost no coffee grounds stuck to it after a shot.

UPDATE: I'm amending my review after using for a couple weeks. I determined that this screen is just a hair or two shorter than the OEM screen, so that would leave a little extra space between the coffee grinds and was resulting in soupy pucks. I've since improved my grind and tamping so that the pucks are consistently dry again, and with the nanotech coating, there's very little grinds sticking to the shower screen, which is very nice and makes for easy cleaning. So, okay, this is an improvement. Not huge, but still worth it. I was excited to get this after switching to the nanotech filter baskets and seeing a huge improvement in my extraction. So I figured a nanotech shower screen would be great, too. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. Maybe this is good for lower price point machines like the Gaggia, but it was not an improvement for my Quickmill E61 machine's OEM shower screen, which is already pretty high quality it seems. In fact, the nanotech seemed to have less flow, and my pucks have come out wet to soupy, with some clear evidence of channeling. I tried adjusting my tamp and increasing the amount of coffee. It just isn't working.

Great quality replacement for my QM67 espresso machine. I’ve ordered two so far and will continue to buy them.

Good

Improves the flow pattern over stock and it stays cleaner in use. Stock is the only thing I have to compare to, but I feel like it’s a big step up for a relatively minor cost.

Doesn’t fit my Giotto E61

Fit perfectly on e61 rocket espresso machine. Will buy another for my ECM. Way easier to replace part than trying to clean.

this is not a nanotec shower screen as described

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Pretty good purchase. Really happy about it, using it for several years already.