"We'll sell no wine before it's time"

or

"We'll sell no wine before its time"

In either case, the time to sell is now because the wine is never going to get any better and the clots that buy this swill don't care to know the difference aging makes, believing wine comes in two varieties : Red and White

A relative of mine was involved in the production of that commercial, which I believe was a couple of decades ago. The actor has been dead for a while.

What I heard was that the actor was so inebriated when he arrived for filming, that they had to confiscate the flasks (of something more potent than wine), that he had brought with him, in order to film at all. As I recall, I heard that numerous retakes were needed as he continually tripped over his lines.

ken

All confirmed by what I've heard from people working at Paul Masson at the time . . .

Here are some pictures of the Swift. After the grinder assembly was removed from the motor and the rear amature broken in the process I took the assembly to a friend's shop and had it cut in half to look at what was going on. I'm surmising that the dissimilar metals may have had something to do with the galling that caused the seizing up of the threads. The top carrier is stainless and the bottom casing is aluminum. Anyway, the assemblies are both junk.

Man, that stinks. Are you going to stick with Swifts or try out something new? Mazzers are Al on Cr-plated brass, shouldn't be all that much different. Anyway, thanks for the pics!

Ben Z. wrote:Man, that stinks. Are you going to stick with Swifts or try out something new? Mazzers are Al on Cr-plated brass, shouldn't be all that much different. Anyway, thanks for the pics!

I'm hoping I can get the parts to repair the machine and they aren't more than about 40% the cost of a new machine. We are back to using Mazzers for the time being which some of the staff prefer and some of the staff had difficulty with in the past. At one point I had both and those baristas who preferred one over the other had the choice. We often have 7 or 8 different baristas using a grinder in a 15hr day so the Swift is far and away the more reasonable machine when the line is out the door. Which, these days, doesn't happen nearly as much as it used to. The machine has a little counter inside which I didn't know about until I pulled the cover off. It shows 465,000+ cycles so I can't whine too much about the life of the machine. I'm wondering what the upper end of cycles are on these machines? I've had a few rocks or shards of cement go through over the 8 or so years I've used this one.

Bernie