LMWDP Rollcall - Page 27

[espressme]

Hi Ben and welcome to an interesting field! A few crosswinds and a bit of mechanical turbulence, But hey, the hanger flying is great!
LMWDP #178 fwdslip
LMWDP #179 FREE
LMWDP #180 FREE
LMWDP #14K Climb14
Cheers!
Richard / espressme

I too have ordered a Gaggia Factory 16. I am excited to try this whole espresso lifestyle out myself as I have always mooched off of Mr. Harry Cannonball, and will now be liberated from his wicked ways! Ha! Just kidding Tim...glad to be here. Looking forward to my number!
A true novice,
Ben

[julioale]

Few time ago I bought on Ebay a Elektra Micro Casa a Leva. What I received was a disaster, the water level was broken, the boiler bended and extremely dirty. The machine should had been 1995 but it was from 1989.

After losing the claim in Paypal, @#$%^, as usual, I kept the Leva away to forget my frustration and the waste of Money. Recently I decided to give it a try; I repaired the boiler, the level and clean it thoroughly. I need to learn a lot from it but is already conquering me, especially to drink espressos.

I would like to have the 180.

Thanks

Ale

[espressme]

Hello Ale,
I am happy to know you got the lovely machine operative! Welcome to the club!
You were given # 180 by HB!
LMWDP #179 FREE
LMWDP #180 julioale
LMWDP #181 FREE
LMWDP #182 FREE
LMWDP #183 FREE
LMWDP #184 FREE
LMWDP #185 FREE
Cheers
Richard /espressme

[Fullsack]

Few time ago I bought on Ebay a Elektra Micro Casa a Leva. What I received was a disaster, the water level was broken, the boiler bended and extremely dirty. The machine should had been 1995 but it was from 1989.

After losing the claim in Paypal, @#$%^, as usual, I kept the Leva away to forget my frustration and the waste of Money. Recently I decided to give it a try; I repaired the boiler, the level and clean it thoroughly. I need to learn a lot from it but is already conquering me, especially to drink espressos.

I would like to have the 180.

Thanks

Ale

I commend you on your tenacity, in repairing a damaged machine. It must have been heartbreaking to receive an a Leva in that condition. Unfortunately,"sLeezebay" is becoming an untrustworthy place for buying espresso machines and PayPal is becoming a more difficult venue for receiving a fair shake, (seems to always be in the sellers favor). All of that said:

Welcome to the LMWDP club!

[Rjob749]

Please list me on the LMWDP list.

I have had my Elektra Micro Casa a Leva for 13 years and it has served me daily and well.

My story is as many others. I found my love of espresso when travelling in Europe, even though I'm from Seattle, not all of us found it corporately.

With both of us working and a young son in 2nd grade, not long after our return from Europe we bumped into a Swedish opare that had lost her job. When she moved in to watch our son, she couldn't imagine we didn't own an espresso machine and that's when i got my first Gaggia Brevetti (circa 1984).
It worked great but after a couple of pumps and rebuilds (over 10 years) we were looking for a new machine and found the Leva at a charity auction.

How could I not fall in love with this masterpiece? It had the base, travel box and the Elektra coffee grinder. We bid until it hurt, having never seen one before, and took it home. This was in 1995. We added a LaPavoni for the motorhome several years later (1998) and have been lever people since.

Recently the Elektra has been dripping from the group head and I seem to recall taking it to a local repair shop a few years back. They really didn't do much other than clean it and say there weren't any parts needed.

Procrastination came to a head the other day and I got on here to research a rebuild/reseal. Thank goodness for this site. I ordered and received new seals from 1st Line and installed them last night. Oh my, like new again. Thank you to all that post the great info here on the entire range of subjects and research, it was a big help.

So hopefully the Elektra will serve us another 13 years, but I imagine it will get resealed before then. I'll post a pic of the auction find.

Dripless in Seattle,

Roger

[espressme]

OOh what an entrance fee! Wow.
Welcome aboard, you've been a member for a long time just now gettin' around to gettin' a number!
LMWDP #179 Rjob749
LMWDP #180 julioale
LMWDP #181 FREE
LMWDP #182 FREE
LMWDP #183 FREE
LMWDP #184 FREE
LMWDP #185 FREE
Cheers
Richard

[Rjob749]

OOh what an entrance fee! Wow.
Welcome aboard, you've been a member for a long time just now gettin' around to gettin' a number!
LMWDP #179 Rjob749
LMWDP #180 julioale
LMWDP #181 FREE
LMWDP #182 FREE
LMWDP #183 FREE
LMWDP #184 FREE
LMWDP #185 FREE
Cheers
Richard

Thanks for the number and I am happy to be a member of this illustrious and august group.

[Ernie]

I want to say "HI" from Germany. Lately my new La Pavoni Stradivari Europiccola has moved in - thanks to this forum. As I've been reading on this forum about lever machines for quite a while, I got infected with the lever-virus.
This is why I would like to be listed in the LMWDP!

PS: I Would like to get the #181!

[mogogear]

Hello and a welcome to all our newest members! Thanks for taking the time to register, request a LMWDP # and share a little about your path to us.

We look forward to your input, your questions and mentoring those you run into on having a better espresso experience via a LEVER!

[Mike Panic]

OK, I want IN...already started a n00b thread here documenting my experiance with a new-to-me europiccola.

Is it possible that I can get LMWDP #666? I know it's an odd request and I'm new here but I'd appreciate it. Looking forward to getting an LMWDP tamper too!

[mturkel99]

Alright, it is time I add to my signature. I have had my Cremina for over a month, but I have loved coffee since 8th grade. Back then, I bought Starbucks preground (preburnt) beans, which I ran through a black and decker space saver brewer; today I buy gimme coffee leftist, roasted within 4 days and run it through my mazzer major and then my oly. Wow what a journey.

[mturkel99]

Oh, and by the way this is in a dorm room!

[mogogear]

Oh, and by the way this is in a dorm room!

"Turkels Place for before the finals all-niter !"

Ahhh, the memories- good for you !

[mturkel99]

"Turkels Place for before the finals all-niter !"

Ahhh, the memories- good for you !

You know it!

[mturkel99]

How, and when, do I get my number?

[mogogear]

How, and when, do I get my number?

When you graduate.............

[mturkel99]

I don't qualify?

[r-gordon-7]

I'm relatively new here too - though I've posted a few times over the past two or three weeks, ever since ordering my first espresso machine - a Gaggia Factory 106 from WLL. (As posted elsewhere, it arrived last week w/a broken sight-glass tube and was returned to WLL - its replacement is entroute to me as I type...) I've also ordered a Zassenhaus Model 190 on eBay. Hopefully, a black Ascasco iMini will also soon follow...

I see LMWDP #184 is free... If still available, I'd appreciate being annointed... Though I'm currently residing in Seattle and have been for the past 27 years, I'm originally from The Bronx (though I moved away 50 years ago at age 7). So, if a Bronx pedigree is the reason that mturkel99 doesn't qualify, then I suppose I don't either - (Yo, turk-el, we Bronxites need to stick together - capiche!? )

r-gordon-7

[mogogear]

Since Espressme and myself do a lot of "jawin" on this thread to say hello and whatnot- I throw this comment up every now and then- Dan Kehn the proprietor of H-B does the assigning of numbers- He is smart to not leave it up to we riff-raff...

I just poke fun here and there- equal opportunity - So I would pick on someone from Manhattan as easy as Anchorage... Consider it all good!

Welcome - Wow - this espresso thing is going to catch on in Seattle yet!

[fflewddur]

My favorite memories of levers...

The first shot of espresso I ever pulled was on a beautiful 2 group Conti lever in 1992. I used that machine for about a year before we upgraded(?) to a La San Marco automatic at the shop I worked at. I always enjoyed pulling shots on that machine, but others had a harder time with it. The spring was a little light and consensus at the time was with the beans we were using we had to tamp well and put just a little extra force on the piston arm. Ultimately I ended up stripping and refurbing that machine so we could resell it. I tried to adopt it, but my folks (who I was living with at the time) didn't think it was a good idea for some reason... fortunately my wife is way more supportive of my faema, but then that's part of why I married her .

Then there was the godshot I got one foggy saturday morning outside at an SCA event from a propane powered 2 group lever... mmm. The espresso the next day from that machine was good, but no godshot and not nearly as memorable.

Now I like many others have picked up a gaggia factory from WLL which I'll be keeping at work to save me from drinking the free $B that is provided. So I'll finally be joining the active ranks of lever users again.

Please may I have a number?