Oh most fortunate of men; let me congratulate you!!
WOW!!

SCORE!!!

A machine in that condition should easily go for $1000+. Too bad not enough sellers respected these machines as well as yours have.

Congrats!

Thanks for your kind words all.

I calibrated the pstat yesterday and pulled some stellar shots today. I'm finding that I need to grind on the more course side with this than the ECM.

It is a vastly superior machine to the La Pavoni PC-16 I had a few machines ago. It just feels stellar to be pulling a lever again.

While I am sure this isn't a bomb-proof indicator, the seller took an excellent picture looking up into the underside of the group. It looked better than my 9 mo old ECM and I clean regularly. But, ultimately I felt like it was a roll of the dice.

My first inclination is haha
My better side says congratulations, and give those wonderful ladies a HUGE cyber-hug...and maybe a box of chocolates. They are awesome.
I loved my Cremina, miss sometimes, and may in the future get another.