by sneakymagic on Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:31 pm
Hey Greg, so happy to have shaken you out of your semi-retirement - this is beginning to feel like a class of 06 re-union! Are you still in Portland? Everytime I hear of it I keep thinking it sounds like the ideal place to live (wine, nuts, trees, beer, coffee and vanilla bikes - what more could you ask?). I bet the grass is even greener than here.
And boy oh boy Jack you do have a good memory! Without wishing to annoy anyone, yes I do have a replacement grouphead but it also needs a little work so I was planning on decommissioning the swissmiss for a while and testing a repair on the old one before I get the newer one done. If the rolling refurb offer had still been on the go I'd have contributed, as I'd rather go via someone who new what they were doing than try to replicate the repair over here.
Been waiting for thr funds to be available but in the meantime I've managed to get a millenium Pavoni head into the same state so I probably need to re-think my lever arm pressure!
My own absence? - Straitened circumstances (and the collapse of the £) meant that hanging out here (where I happily led myself to believe that owning 6 machines and 4 grinders was normal) was getting to be a tad expensive! Not to mention that I was actually sitting waiting for responses to other people's posts and developing vitamin d deficiency. Hence the cold turkey.
Hope to be able to control myself this time round and thanks for all the advice,
P
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