Hi Pete, Excellent to hear she's back up & running!

Is the rim of the small basket you have a flat one, or a curved rim one?

Your older model Faemina may use a flat rim, the newer Faeminas seem to use either flat, or curved rim baskets (this will determine where the PF handle is positioned when the PF is locked in). Our old Faemina takes a flat rim just fine, and the handle locks in perfectly at center.

Of course, you might have more concern about the quality of the coffee in the cup than where the PF handle locks in!!

The Microcimbali basket we have is a 51mm, with flat rim, and from our observation the OLD Faemina basket is a 51mm, with a flat rim also, so if that's what you have, this basket will fit. The newer one is a 51mm with a curved rim, and we think it may have been changed to mess with us linear thinkers....linear thinking may be overrated... Will have to think about that!

Hello, the rim is the rounded type and having looked again at the exploded diagrams it is clear that the basket I have is the single basket supplied with the machine. If the new double basket is also rounded it sounds as though I am in luck.

I have also chanced upon these guys http://www.midatlanticrubber.com/stem_bumpers.htm who I am planning to contact to replace my perished foot pegs or rubber stem bumpers as they call them. They should know I guess. I think the MAR 0799 has the right dimensions to fit the faemina pretty well unless of course faema decided in their wisdom to again make subtle dimension changes to their faemina plug holes. Anyway, again thanks for all your input so far.

Pete