Faema Lambro

Good evening everyone

I continued to work on the machine, but it does not move quickly. The body is ready to rise.

I wired the machine, and tonight I was able to put it into service, it’s nice to see water back out of the group, not a leak to report at this time, we’ll see tomorrow when the machine will cool but it looks very good.

 

 

 

Faema Lambro

Good evening

I have a little left these days, I will now be able to return a little more regularly.

The machine has advanced, most  stainless steel are polished, and I miss it more than a cap below the level to set for water and heating.

I was able to fix the gauge, it took me two to rebuild a different but it should work, the mechanism is a common model that has the same reading level to maintain the correct angle of the needle and the needle is a modern Faema E61.

Stay tuned for more.

Pascal

Faema Lambro

Hello

The week was not easy, small minor health problem that I slow down.

I have still not dropped the machine, and everything was not easy. The stainless steel are not really easy to work, it was much less complicated on the President.

Many small scratches that are time consuming to remove 😉

The piping is in place, as the heat element, I ended the group.

As against the gauge broked trying to remove the needle, I will have to adapt a new one in replacement. This is the first time it happens, the axis is usually an hard enough alloy, but here on the first try with my forceps modified to remove the needle is bent, the needle was very securely fastened I wonder if it had not been stuck, and by dint of insisting, and despite that I heated with a soldering iron, it would not come and that is the axis which broke 😕

 

Faema Lambro

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Day’s work, polishing and assembly of the group Zodiaco, cleaning and assembling the flange on the boiler.

I was surprised to find a brass boiler cover under the grime, given the thinness I almost bet it was copper.

This Lambro surprises me every day, it’s a combination of technicals rather limits like those crummy aluminum flanges … and interesting things as the quality of the tank, its nice braze solder, and this beautiful plate.

 

Faema Lambro

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I passed two coats of black paint on the frame last week. And also … I spent almost 8 hours to restore the  stainless steel facade. This stainless steel 18/8 is an horror to polish, it is both hard to attack for roughing, and at the same time very tender on its finishing coat, not easy to get a nice shine. It remained some traces of the past of the machine that I can not remove, it is very deep and it would make too much material to remove.

The group was very dirty, but unlike steel it is in fairly good condition, for once, I have done a before/after.

  You start to be a certain number to follow this humble blog, and this is very nice to know that one is a little read, thank you. Feel free to leave a comment, it’d be fun to do a little knowledge with my readers 😉

 

Faema President 2 groups

Here is a great adventure comes to its end.

After getting the boiler, and given the quality of work has been done on it, I could get up the machine with confidence. No more leak to report anywhere.

The coffees of this machine are really a very good quality, I want to say, but this is only my opinion, that Faema has it all with this group. I’m used to more body, more flavor perhaps also with my usual machines, but also more blame, “but it’s hard …. bah!” By people accustomed to sad quality of the majors in home appliances. Here we get a coffee that has the body, many flavors, but also a lot of sweetness and roundness.

Pascal

 Faema President par ChromesdantanFaema President par Chromesdantan

 

 

Faema President 2 groups

Something new under the sun

And not all good news …

At 11am this morning I had an appointment to solder the two small cracks in the boiler. At 15.30 I’ll get it back. The welder had two beautiful welds and the boiler was waiting in a corner of the workshop I came to retrieve it. I look at some work that was done and found that stainless steel has again cracked right next to the welds.

It was decided to take the bull by the horns, we conclude that we must weld a sheet of stainless steel across the weakened area to stop the progression of the disease, engagement took to 17.30.

At the appointed hour the professional get me back the tank at home, he really did a great job. But …. the disease is higher than expected, it still cracked side 🙁

It is still a new soldering iron next to the one already placed and I get the boiler tomorrow. I hope it’s going to blow it go because it’s the bottom of the boiler which has been mended.

I do not know exactly what to think about, a friend told me this morning the risks of poor grounding resistance and the risk of drilling tanks it is. I feel that there has been a long and bloody process of electrolysis, which attacked the metal gradually over the entire area below the item.

Nothing to worry too much though, the machine arrived there after almost 20 years of operation, with the thickness of sheet metal that is added with the welder, it should move at least 20 years again.