by dylanmcnamee on Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:35 pm
I'll take 33.
I'm a very late-comer to the LMWDP, but not by temperament. As a "get it out of the way disclaimer," my wife works for a "major multi-national coffee retail company". I don't speak for her, nor her company.
In any case, we were happy with our pump machine, a Rancilio Rialto (aka Ms. Nancy?) that we bought as our first joint purchase about 15 years ago. It's still chugging along merrily. At the time, the machine we really wanted was an Olympia Cremina (naturally), but they were really hard to find at the time. Remember, this was before the Internet.
Scroll forward 15 years, my wife is given a Pavoni Europiccola for her 15th anniversary at work (woo hoo!), and this rekindles our long-buried desire for a Cremina. I found a nice one on eBay (sn 7719363, ebay item 4407127205), and with our natural dauntless nature fueled by Steve Robinson's wonderful restoration thread, we decided to take the plunge.
The Cremina arrived last night, and after turning it on and verifying it basically worked (and being very impressed with its condition), we decided to start ripping it apart for a full overhaul. I will start a "restoration of another olympia cremina" thread very soon. To set expectations, we do not plan on making our machine better than it was before, as Steve clearly is doing, but rather to make it work as close to new as we can (and look pretty good). I think our experience with the earlier vintage of this machine might be interesting for folks.
That's all for now,
dylan mcnamee
Rancilio Rialto/Rocky, Europiccola Millennium, All-Clad Presso, Atomic Moka, Olympia Cremina 7719363
LMWDP #33
