…of girls from East.

Hello,

Found by Vincent, bought and shipped for me by Gábor, here is a beauty that smells good friendship, thank you to both!

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Gábor explained the origin of Keripar meaning “KEReskedelmi és vendéglatoIPARi in Hungarian, or simply “Trade and Restoration”.

Filling the boiler with a hole at the top and using the funnel supplied by the manufacturer !!!

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A most of simple steam wand

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But a group mechanism with locking down position with a beautiful design, beautiful production and beautiful materials. Seems to me more reliable and safer than locking mechanism of Gaggia lever groups.

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An amazing design, under outdated body, and very particular aesthetic of the communist era, hide a heavy steel frame poor quality hand welded. But also a very nice copper boiler, a massive connection of the group and this group also, beautiful workmanship.

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Electric heating, a good quality grade pressure-stat. A safety thermostat too, serious design, mostly high grade.

Keripar, résistance

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Simple discovery for the moment, but a pleasure nonetheless. I tried to start it but it leaks everywhere … I‘ll talk when I start its restoration.

Pascal

 

 

Express Augusta

Hello,

Aesthetic restoration of the element, it won’t heat anything anymore but it was interesting to understand how it worked.

I must confess that I don’t understand everything … of what I see electricity is taken directly to the heating plates, and plunging rods are electrically isolated from the lid of the boiler with porcelain rings and stacks of mica washers. But nothing else, it means that water is at electric potential Or while there was an insulator but I can not find any trace?

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I thought it could be interesting to take some pictures of an assembly without dressing her up the old lady. Hoping she will forgive me the following:

The bottom, the basins and depressurization of groups grouped together in the same brass manifold. In the middle the arrival of water filling the boiler.

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Overview :

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Some details :

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Water intake for prebrewing, pipe in the steam for the infusion, and depressurizing at the end of extraction.

Pascal

An Autumn Weekend

Hi,

I bought this one a few months ago. The group had been very damaged by a previous owner. So before going home waiting to be completely redone I fully sanded and polished and made ​​rechrome.

One lent to me now an original tool from Faema to remove the sleeve of the group. So I did, cleaned and reassemble.

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I snapped on this machine for its architecture. A group of Mercurio with a horizontal boiler is all new to me. And this coupling of the group to the boiler is so awesome

Chaudière Urania 1ere génération The same boiler as on Faema Marte

 I won’t restore it now, I have to finish restoration of the Zenith Express and then to work on Mercurio.  I had this weekend to remove asbestos,  treat rust to stop etc… And in momentum I thought it would be a good idea remove old screws before time makes things worse…

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🙂  One is right… still a lot of work…

But now at home and I love it 🙂

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A little shot just before removing Mercurio.

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Pascal

Express Augusta

Hello,

Geez this old coffee machine has given me more work than I would have thought. And also reserved a few nice surprises like the boiler. Very particular these heat pipes therethrough from below upwards. As for driving the energy of the flame gas or charcoal faster and more efficiently in the heart of the water.

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It is sanded and there are although good quality of the materials of before.

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I painted after blasting the stove and the iron ring which holds the groups from inside of the tube.

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I get very soon the last things I did rechrome so, to be followed

Pascal

Visacrem 2000

As told my friend Vincent of Machines.cafeslevier.free.fr I didn’t post any picture of the lever…. mistake now fixed 😉

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Brasil Datera from the Roaster “Torréfaction Lancelot” at Sciez sur Léman near Geneva France.

22g for this doppio :

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Beautiful crema, beautiful aromatic exploration, even if slightly below the Lambro. Nice texture, very nice, even if  a little more hesitant than on the Faema. It is maybe very informative. I’ll have to confirm with more experiments, but the resulting coffee is much akin to what a thermosiphon’s group like e61 can give. Interesting for a group connected to the boiler so that also, conversely, as a thermosiphon group on Faema Lambro is very close for the resulting body of a coupled group.

The rules are made to be contradicted.  ?! 😉

 

Incredible little machine : Visacrem 2000

This is going for see a machine that I had promised to try to sell for a friend that I fell on it. Besides a large two groups professional drags a small lever machine. A household size with a pro group Italcrem, no need anything more to stir my attention of collector

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I make some pictures of the Pavoni and begin inspecting the intriguing. Quote, short trading and I’m leaving with.

I did not know what to do. Complete restoration without knowing it more ? And if the cup result is not up to par ? I decided to refurbish it just to remake coffee clean and safe.

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Come back soon with a coffee shot, really surprising this little girl 😉

Pascal