Lever Espresso Machine Gallery - Page 165

#1641: Post by **drgary** » October 18th, 2013, 12:21 am

Jason:

You should be able to get vintage portafilters from that period easily enough. I doubt they redesigned the portafilters and groups for a run of 20 machines. The way they're configured on that machine is the unusual part. I'm going to shoot an email to Christopher Cara and see if this was a special order requested by his father.

#1642: Post by **peacecup** » October 18th, 2013, 3:38 pm

Those look like the same 45 mm groups as on the Sama/Ponte Vecchio machines. They make great espresso and should be easy to get parts for.

PC

#1643: Post by **figolaos** » October 22nd, 2013, 2:31 pm

Hi,

i'm trying to find parts for my La san marco .....(looks like 75 lever),only that it has also extra filter coffee tank and i try to find out the exact model!!!
Can somebody help me?

Thanks

#1644: Post by **drgary** » October 22nd, 2013, 2:45 pm

Yiannis:

This thread is for showing photos of our lever machines in a gallery format. You may want to post your request as a separate thread in the Levers forum. Otherwise it's likely to be overlooked. To help us identify your machine please show us photos.

#1645: Post by **drgary** » October 24th, 2013, 6:57 pm

drgary wrote:I'm going to shoot an email to Christopher Cara and see if this was a special order requested by his father.

As I thought, these two group Rivieras show the innovation of Thomas Cara. According to Christopher these 20 machines were made for their San Francisco shop.

#1646: Post by **gor** » October 28th, 2013, 3:23 am

Saw this machine today. I thought it was an interesting piece in that it had both a lever group and normal pump driven group

#1647: Post by **vberch** » October 28th, 2013, 10:27 am

Wow! And even the lever group looks like an adaptation of an E-61 group. There is no column of water pressing on a puck during preinfusion. Where is a piston on this lever? Is it horizontal?

November 6th, 2013, 10:02 pm

I'm deep into restoring my 1992 2-Group Astoria Lever machine. I'm documenting the rebuild too: Rebuilding an old 2 group Astoria Lever (+ propane)

Anyway, here is my pretty little (not so little) machine taking up a little (absolutely huge) portion of my kitchen:

I even added a little mood lighting.

November 7th, 2013, 1:34 pm

I hear Teddy Pendergrass in the background.... "Turn down the lights, light a candle..." LOL. Nice mood lighting.

#1650: Post by **Possepat** » November 7th, 2013, 2:05 pm

Teddy Bear! I hear the same but I'm hearing David Alan Grier's impression of Teddy.