Lacehim wrote:
That makes me want another project. All these levers... Where do you find these machines? Even the busted ones go for heaps on fleabay. 🙁
Someone I consider a friend yelled at me over twitter that it was showing on eBay via a classified ad at 11.30 in the evening, 9 minutes after it listed. I made a substantive offer at 2.30am, with an emo-sounding email, and got the offer accepted at 7.30 in the morning. Previously it's been a case of watching eBay, gumtree and a few others - if you're seriously after one of these I reckon the prices people were paying a couple of years ago are total bargains. Before I lucked out and was helped out with this (which will restore beautifully but is a bit lacking at the moment), I helped 4 people find Z8/Z9/NCL machines In my opinion they're one of the best lever machines out there - full, round and smooth shots combined with a retro look which is either loved or hated. While I'd prefer a 1 group for space reasons (and weight, these HEAVY), my preference for 'sipper' extractions over 'temperature forcing' means this'll allow me to rotate through the groups. So - short story: "I paid heaps for it on fleabay". I'm trying to decide whether to re-coat it in Orange (I believe it's the standard X15?) or go for a custom colour, maybe teal but probably cream. [quote author=""Cuppacoffee"]Looks like it will keep you out of mischief for a while John - all the best with the restoration. [/quote] Thanks Dennis - it's been in the garage since August as the friends who unpacked it threw out the motor + pump while they were putting it up on the bench, but I'm slowly getting through it & have grabbed a pretty full list of all the smaller parts for resto.
beanflying wrote:
Curses I reckon he has just done it to guilt me into getting into my resto of the same toy Just to avoid confusion I will open a sister thread and link the first two postings to each other when I set mine up on the bench Wednesday.
Sounds great - I'm going to enjoy beating you to a full restored machine - that's if you have decals etc 🙂 ----- Just fixed up beanflying's links ----- Few links worth a read for info etc. http://www.sreweb.com/diagrams/rancilioa.htmhttp://www.home-barista.com/levers/rancilio-z9-two-group-lever-machine-t12840.html?hilit=z9%20lever http://www.home-barista.com/levers/pid-controller-in-commercial-lever-t13264.html?hilit=z9%20lever#p159698 - kind of defeats the purpose of simple 😉
