Spotted for sale on http://www.coffeesnobs.com.au. Does anyone here know anything about these machines? I thought I was over the lever bug when I didn't go for the Haiti then this pops up on my door step. I did a quick net squiz and it seems this is a rare machine.

I'm scared to go and look just in case...Jeez my wife will kill me! I just bought a Semiauto Elektra to play with and barely got away with that one...this looks a bit special though.

Good parts availablity; later ones (which are most of the ones available) feature a hx. This makes for great stability. Very unusual in old levers. Needs to be plumbing in with a pressure reg, just like a pump machine. Mine makes very good coffee.

If you do a search you'll probably find some rebuild threads and photos.

Is it really late 50s or early 60s? The body work design looks later than that.

early 70s to early 80s. mine is '74.

Paul wrote:early 70s to early 80s. mine is '74.

Thats much more consistent with the look. People seem to assume that anything with a lever is from the 50s.

My Aurora Brugnetti is from 1984. It got a HX. A good and solid machine with great temperature stability. And the HX-version is very attractive for home-use..hey..this is my first posting here ..

Hello Dondi,
Welcome to H-B. That is a lovely Machine!!
Why not join the LMWDP: Lever Machine World Domination Plot??
here
Cheers!
-Richard

I have had my Termazona (Brugnetti Aurora) Clevis to Lever - further explorations in Espresso Space for four years. Purchased it from Joe at The Good Coffee Company in Seattle (he has a 2 group of the same machine from which he pulls shots for customers). It is the HX model and has great temperature stability. It had been sold 30 years previously to a deli in Kirkland WA. It is manual fill and they forgot and burned out the element. Pump machines were becoming the vogue so Joe replaced the element, put it on a shelf in the back of his shop, and there it sat for 30 years. Therefore when I bought it, it was almost new. I do not know how much difference the HX makes, but it is a relatively small form factor for a commercial lever which makes it quite a good fit for a home machine.

Man that's pretty!
*sigh* i really wish i had the money to spend on a lever, but too many other things come first for a student living on scraps...

I have a 2 group from 1978 which I recondition from the ground up and since that (about a year ago) the machine is working flawlessly.
http://s215.photobucket.com/albums/cc11...%20Aurora/
I'd take this Aurora over any pump machine I had in the past.
Awesome machine.