Galerie des machines à levier

Bonjour
Petits apports à ma GRL :
- Un bloc isolant entre la cuve et la tête
- Un répartiteur de chaleur ( très efficace ) qui permet d'éviter l’emballement thermique de la tête
- Le mano de pression sur le levier
- Le thermomètre de tête
- un prolongateur de buse vapeur 1 trou ( j'en avais marre de me brûler la main à la tête quand je montais mon lait )
Maintenant, il faut que j'adapte ma routine !

Le prolongateur de la buse vapeur 1 trou ça crachotte pas mal de condensation je trouve , au final il y a pas trop d avantage par rapport a la buse un trou classique, pas celle d origine qui en contient plusieurs ce que je n ai jamais compris de la part de Lapavoni, quand on est déjà limite côté vapeur on augmente pas le nombre de trou... Enfin malgré la buse un trou, je préfère largement monter le lait sur la bezzera Strega, surtout qu elle est isolée contrairement à la Lapavoni.

I will start slowly with a 2nd series Faemina with brown bakelite handles. I paid the equivalent of 80 euro for this machine but it was viciously cut in half in an attempt to remove the old shaft. The third photo was from the sale post by the prior owner . Thus a new stainless steel one was manufactured after the old one was removed properly. It also has a small tilt from someone clamping the base hard but it works!

Now for something more dramatic, the original lever machine! This Classica was purchased from a Gaggia distributor's son near Salerno in Italy. I actually saw the machine in person in 2019 but could not afford the machine at the time. I was able to contact him in September and we agreed upon a very reasonable price almost half of his original €4000 offer! It arrived to me upside down, shattering the water level glass, creating a small dent in the body panel, and breaking and the non-original plexi piece, but otherwise it survived the journey over the Atlantic ocean. I have a replica plexi coming soon, and I can cut my own glass. The dent I mostly fixed up too. It is cleaning up very very nicely.

wow superbe Ryan, bon courage pour la restauration et ne t'inquiète pas si il n'y a pas trop de commentaires. On reste en admiration
Tu peux créer un thread spécifique concernant cette restauration, tu pourrais avoir aussi de l'aide.

Superbe ! J'ai hâte de connaitre les suites de l'aventure

I do appreciate it! I will admit I use Google Translate but it does a good job (usually). It is a powerful tool to convey discussion even if I am unable to speak or write it well (and vice versa). The Classica is already in pieces and mostly cleaned up. The two big problems I still need to tackle are removing a rusted away stud in the boiler to frame assembly and determine if I leave a stuck shut-off valve as is. Nothing too big to be honest! I already have all the gaskets sourced/acquired, and I got a new heating element + Boiler gasket from Paul Pratt. He is also going to provide the plexi replica.

Don't get me started on the other three concurrent projects I am completing , a 1962 Faema Urania, a 1956 Gaggia Internazionale, and a Boema Lever machine from Australia! A few may already know about that Internazionale...

Voici maintenant dans la galerie d'autres photos de ma Lady Duchessa, telle que je la présente dans le fil "une Lady rarement vue".
Ces photos proviennent de Francesco Ceccarelli, chez qui cette machine est allée en 2017. Il fait tout simplement de meilleures photos que moi.

Très belles photo pour un beau bijou...
Nous dévoileras tu les impressions de ton palais, cette machine paraît aussi simple et fonctionner comme une Europicola (chaudière et groupe, mais en plus costaud).
Furieuse envie de connaître ses qualités.
Il ne doit pas encore en traîner beaucoup en chemin ?
Quoiqu'il en soit, bonnes dégustations chez toi !

Salut @philonge
n'oubliez pas le ressort dans le groupe d'infusion sur la Lady Duchessa. Elle fonctionne plus comme une Faema Faemina que comme une La Pavoni Europiccola.
Merci d'en discuter plus en détail dans le fil "une Lady rarement vue" et non pas ici dans la galerie.

My newest successful project. This 1962 Faema Urania was very gentle during testing, with minimum leaks observed. The big issue that I needed to fix was a leaking stress crack on the boiler lid. I was able to braze silver solder on the outside of the lid, file down the solder so the boiler ring fit, and confirmed the leak was fixed. I also made a new pipe for the pressurstat and fit a cross fitting on top for the pstat, safety valve, and vacuum valve. The 220V light for the glass is broken so I will find a replacement 110V light to complete this project.

Wouawww ! very nice !!!

Amazing!

I am just about done with this Gaggia Internazionale. There were a few small leaks I needed to patch but now it is just one tiny leak that occurs only when the machine is cold/not in use. However it works wonderfully for espresso . The body panel needs a little adjusting too but it is all little things. Thank you Pascal for allowing me the privilege of buying this machine (it is not the one he has a thread about but a different one).

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Un régal toutes ces photos on en veut encore :-)

Crénom, quel beau bestiau !!!

r0bin, the best I can do is a few Faema Mercurio pics that I took today. This is a 3rd series Mercurio with the tall thermosyphon group that has a preinfusion mechanism like the ones seen on San Marco and a few others. This group has just one piston seal as a result!




The pics are a little dark so I will show two pics of the front and the insides from when I was reassembling this machine in January 2021. I cleaned up the dirty pstat pipe and changed the vacuum valve to one that has a silicone hose so water does not splatter inside.

Superbe!
Je ne m'en lasserai jamais et je dois pas etre le seul

Oh Ryan is here !
Expresso Forum is becoming more and more international.

Oh yes I lurk here often, but I unfortunately am rubbish at speaking French so I usually just read threads with Google Translate (which works very well actually) with the occasional post.

I will make one additional post since I just moved the Internazionale from the kitchen to my large display table. I moved it so I could free up space in the kitchen for the Mercurio while placating the other people in the house that use that same space. There are a few key kinks I will need to work out with it but I am happy to have pulled espresso for it at the minimum.


Looking a little further out you can see most of the other machines hiding in this room. It's just the President you can't see. The Mercurio is in the kitchen, and down in the basement I have the Marte, Classica, Pavoni P67, and Boema in various stages of disassembly or reassembly. However I intend to bring upstairs the P67 soon as it does work, but I just have not found a spot for it yet. In addition I have three machines that should be shipped to me within a month probably, so that will confound my efforts a little.

The three prior mentioned machines arrived last Wednesday on a big pallet. I already have two in pieces, a 1967 La San Marco Tipo 6X and 1974 La Cimbali Eleva. I have the San Marco mostly cleaned up and just need to order new gaskets and maybe clean the frame/bodypanels. The two group 1976 La San Marco Tipo 75 may follow shortly after...

I really enjoyed disassembling the San Marco. It is really well thought out and designed to be serviced easily. The Eleva is a little different. I am still fighting it, almost as if it does not want to come apart...

I do not want to intrude too much with my English, but I know people have preferences to not check other forums or social media related to espresso and wanted to share my first French machine purchase. It is an early Parisian Conti predating their move to Monaco in 1956. My machine in particular is dated from October 1955 according to the front tag (and on the boiler lid). Someone on this forum assisted with the sourcing of this machine (it is the usual suspect   ). I hope to eventually discover the model name, perhaps SH on the tag is a hint.

Parmi ma collection de machines à levier, ma préférée pour un usage quotidien est la petite Sama Export. Elle chauffe rapidement et donne d'excellents résultats dans la tasse. Sur les quatre exemplaires que j'ai entre-temps achetés, deux étaient peints en rouge.



J'ai donc choisi une variante de couleur qui n'existait pas chez Sama à l'époque. Il s'agit de la couleur RAL-5017, appelée en Allemagne "Verkehrsblau" (bleu de trafic), parce que cette couleur est utilisée pour certains panneaux de signalisation.


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Ici, elle est posée sur une vieille armoire à fiches en tôle d'acier que j'ai fait peindre de la même couleur. La société "Hansen Stahlmöbelbau" a produit de tels meubles en tôle d'acier pour les cabinets médicaux jusqu'à la fin des années 1960 dans l'ancien Berlin-Ouest, quartier de Kreuzberg. Je cherche toutes les informations sur "Hansen-Berlin", mais je trouve très peu de choses. Et rien n'est jamais arrivé jusqu'en France. Ou bien si ? Si vous savez quelque chose, veuillez m'en informer.

Mais actuellement ce Sama Export bleu est utilisé dans la cuisine


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