What is this Campeona lever espresso on eBay?

#1: Post by **DucaiMann** » June 2nd, 2016, 12:46 pm

http://www.ebay.com/itm/282049907183

#2: Post by **sweaner** » June 2nd, 2016, 4:07 pm

I don't know, but for $900 shipping, it must be HUGE!

#3: Post by **Sansibar99** » June 2nd, 2016, 5:21 pm

c'mon, it's a small machine and the price for shipping is symbolic, actual shipping rates can be asked for, depending on country...

#4: Post by **drgary** » June 2nd, 2016, 11:48 pm

That looks very rare and beautiful. If I had deep pockets it would be headed this way.

#5: Post by **sweaner** » June 3rd, 2016, 12:02 am

Sansibar99 wrote:c'mon, it's a small machine and the price for shipping is symbolic, actual shipping rates can be asked for, depending on country...

You really need to turn on your sarcasm meter.

#6: Post by **drgary** » June 3rd, 2016, 1:28 am

That seller actually has more reasonable shipping prices if you check the details by country.

#7: Post by **donn** » June 3rd, 2016, 10:12 am

I'm perplexed over the design.

The Campeona Bambina was the first open boiler machine I ever saw, long ago at a flea market; sadly this obvious idea took a few days to sink in, and the memory of that simple little machine haunted me for a long time. Here they're obviously going for the usual pressurized design, too bad ... but wait, not quite the usual design after all, the 4th photo looks inside and the case turns out to be nearly empty, there's some smallish thing that seems to be kind of a vestigial boiler, and the steam wands come out of the piston jacket? Very odd, no?

The ad alludes to this:

The boiler is front than piston and spring for this reason it have a big group.

I want to believe that the piston jacket is not full of superheated water, because 1) that would be a very challenging and heavy design for a pressurized boiler, and 2) suitable brewing temperature would be impossible. I don't see any evidence that anything important has been removed, so that leaves that little dinky thing in the back, with the line coming out its back to a thermostat or something on the side - the steam boiler? Where do you add water?

#8: Post by **pootoogoo** » June 3rd, 2016, 9:00 pm

This model was patented in 1963 by Juan Garcia Domingo (didn't know he was linked to Campeona).

The group is so large because the water and the heater are around the extraction chamber.

#9: Post by **drgary** » June 3rd, 2016, 9:40 pm

pootoogoo wrote:This model was patented in 1963 by Juan Garcia Domingo (didn't know he was linked to Campeona).

The group is so large because the water and the heater are around the extraction chamber.

Wow! Definitive information from the baristorian.

#10: Post by **pootoogoo** » June 3rd, 2016, 9:46 pm