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Originally posted by 6E5F485150575C51473E0 link=1275629862/27#27 date=1276145439
Ill be the agent in Italy for you all...you just have to fly me over there and pay my expenses ;D. Oh, and then for all that hard work everyone can chip in to buy me a beautiful old lever too
Seriously, would also love one of these levers but need a year to come up with the money. May be worth a holiday and lever hunting expedition in one.
Daughter knows her coffee.. Will be in Milan at end of year... Many rels in Sicily... I should ask around
Ill be the agent in Italy for you all...you just have to fly me over there and pay my expenses ;D. Oh, and then for all that hard work everyone can chip in to buy me a beautiful old lever too
Seriously, would also love one of these levers but need a year to come up with the money. May be worth a holiday and lever hunting expedition in one.
Hi Borat i like the Idea of a group buy. A whole shipping container would be the way as is just hired out for the transit, 1 container is a lot of machines.
Might make for a great mass users project.
Something like
"The Great Lever and E61 Import"
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Re: Old Faema lever
Originally posted by 5C505954545D310 link=1275629862/24#24 date=1276041220
hey Borat where you considering buying it?
what about transport have you sorted that out?
I have been looking ata few things in Italy and France. Just wondering what your up to.......
Hi mate,
I ended up as highest bidder on the evilbay auction but the reserve wasnt met, so waiting to see how it all pans out... After hours & hours of research Im convinced the president is a great machine for espresso, and I think it looks pretty good too.
Estimating airfreight for this one (40kgs + crate) should be somewhere between $300 to $500 landed in Aust.
I like your idea of a group buy.... We need someone in Italy to scour the markets, inspect the gear, buy then crate it all up and send over..
Theres a lot of levers pop up from time to time in Germany & Austria too.
To be honest, wiring money over and hoping the seller is not going to disappear is a bit of a worry too. Escrow is also difficult, and adds to the cost.
If I had some time off work Id fly over, do it myself and make a holiday out of it.
Stuart,
The lump on the boiler is where the steam fitting goes, I suspect its a standard component that they brazed to the boiler to make fitting the pipework easier. Your machine seems to be missing the steam wand (hot water on the left).
Shipping is an interesting nightmare. The freight costs are not necessarily the largest part. Local handling fees from the shipping company, customs, inspection and fumigation costs can be several hundred. Second hand food processing equipment is interesting to Customs, and also possibly wood in the packing will require fumigation - try to get the machine fumigated and shipped with a fumigation certificate, it should be cheaper than the sequence of surprisingly large fees involved in Customs inspecting the machine, working out that the machine has to be fumigated and the doing the fumigation.
Greg
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Originally posted by 2D2128282B2B283C21294E0 link=1275629862/20#20 date=1275772787
Borat,
The one you have pictures of is machine with a five litre boiler, the different boiler layout is a 10 litre machine.Faema offered both sizes.It appears that the ten litre is the more common size, better for high volume use with a small element.
And yes, its a President.Is the glass on the customer side of the body intact?This one looks awfully clean inside, presumably its been restored, in which case it is less likely that there will be asbestos left in there.
Greg
Thanks Greg, all the pics I found of presidents only had the 10ltr boiler... The seller says is has 1967 stamped on it. Not sure how useable (better or worse) the 5ltr would be compared to the 10ltr in an older model.
Do you know what the other smaller horizontal cylinder bit sticking out the top side of the boiler is? Looks like it goes to one of the steam arm/s.
Apparently the whole thing has been cleaned and polished by the seller, but nothing beyond that. Ive seen another pic of it before the cleaning / polishing and it looked like what you expect it to... Maybe a previous owner did a restoration some time ago, who knows...
The glass doesnt look too bad, but the pic is too dark. Ill see if I can get some more daylight pics.
Biggest problem with it would be how to get it back to aust without paying huge amounts for shipping, and without any damage.
Originally posted by 6E637E6D783D3E3F0C0 link=1275629862/16#16 date=1275742463
The boiler in the pics I posted above looks rather small (compared to other president pics Ive seen), and oriented vertically (?) Were some model years like that, and others with a larger horizontally mounted boiler as per below?
Borat,
The one you have pictures of is machine with a five litre boiler, the different boiler layout is a 10 litre machine. Faema offered both sizes. It appears that the ten litre is the more common size, better for high volume use with a small element.
And yes, its a President. Is the glass on the customer side of the body intact? This one looks awfully clean inside, presumably its been restored, in which case it is less likely that there will be asbestos left in there.
Na.. Wife will kill me... But only if she finds out
I knew a bloke who collected Allis Chalmers, he has a shed full 20 or 30, He only collected Allis Chalmers because they were painted orange, to the other half they all looked the same.
when is the group buy happening on these old lever machines?
put me on the list
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Originally posted by 7D617C7C6B607A67606F6D6168686B6B0E0 link=1275629862/14#14 date=1275728473
I have a very similar Faema here (lambro)- and it does have a sheet of asbestos at the back.
The Lambro is a great looking machine too..
I found a thread on another site re a president restoration project. The internal pics look quite different to this one....
The boiler in the pics I posted above looks rather small (compared to other president pics Ive seen), and oriented vertically (?) Were some model years like that, and others with a larger horizontally mounted boiler as per below?
I have a very similar Faema here (lambro)- and it does have a sheet of asbestos at the back.
I am sure the one pictured above will as well, and it will be loose and flakey- and I believe of the worst type. There is a slight chance the machine was refurbished at some time and the original insulation removed...
A single fiber can do you in- and it is always better to be safe than sorry. Having said that removal should be quite simple.
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