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Olympia Chiasso Restoration

Postby KurtAugust on Sun Apr 17, 2011 7:28 pm

I have an old Olympia Chiasso (sn 2288 I think) in my basement that needs some love. I haven't encountered them here on HB so I thought I might share.

Problems:
1) It misses the group dispersion screen. Could still be the early fixed kind.
2) The top of the piston is broken off. Ouch.
3) It misses the portafilter.

Any ideas about putting a date on this machine are very welcome. If I compare to Pavoni's, I believe early '60 (timeline on http://www.francescoceccarelli.eu/ ). Any ideas about restoring the group as well. I know Orphanespresso has seals (please ship my current order first, thank you), but I might get some machining done on that screen and piston.

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Postby coelcanth on Sun Apr 17, 2011 9:55 pm

o wow that is an interesting machine but in terrible shape to be sure !

i have no idea how to date these but your assumption that they are of an era similar to the early pavonis makes sense to me...

looks like you will definitely have to machine a new shaft for the piston and at least surface the bottom of the group sleeve and arrange a way to attach the removable type dispersion sleeve.
luckily the machining operations are fairly straightforward.. but it might be more of a hassle to figure out how to remove the almost certainly stuck piston shaft.

judging by your photos the group head is the oversized type that houses the removable bronze inner sleeve..
remove the rest of the portafilter gasket bits in the group head and check underneath if there are two holes or other provision to fit a spanner for unscrewing...

i don't see why the group would not use a 49mm portafilter as used in all the similar machines and later olympia machines. these are easy to find

good luck with yo project !
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Postby KurtAugust on Sun Dec 11, 2011 7:49 am

The Chiasso has gone to heaven...
Meaning, I've sent it to Francesco Ceccarelli, who wanted it so badly (and traded for a functional seventies pavoni). The Chiasso was a rebadged Pavoni, his guess was that only 1000-1500 of them were made. They stopped rebadging when the Europiccola turned out so successful.

Source: who do you think?
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Postby KurtAugust on Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:48 pm

Francesco did a nice job on the restauration:
http://www.francescoceccarelli.eu/Macchine/Olympia/olympia_222_eng.htm

And my name gets mentioned in lever history. Everybody wins!
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Postby coelcanth on Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:04 pm

well if anyone deserves it it's that guy !!

he was very helpful during my restoration of a similar vintage Europiccola
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