Hi.
I'm Pedro from Coffee Parts
And today I thought we'd do something a little different.
We're going to pull some shots out of these 1964.
Faema Faemina's
Now, these machines are part of my vintage collection and their 58 years old.
So be a fun.
Video to do.
First things first, let's start off pulling some shots out of the 58 years old machine
And these machines have been built to spec.
So be interesting to see what they can do.
We have loaded the portafilter.
And tamp it with a 51 mm tamper.
It's got a lock in the portafilter here and because we're running
one espresso, we're going to pull it down.
Hold it for 10 seconds.
Let it infuse. And bring it back up.
If we're running two cups, we'll do the process twice,
as just releasing that lever, letting it engage and pull back
something quite satisfying.
playing with a vintage machine
And then you have it
It's going to keep dripping because there's nothing.
Actually cutting it.
It's not a modern machine where you've got a solenoid that turns off
But, let it drip and we will just try
It's nice.
It really is nice.
For a vintage machine
it's hard to compare it with just playing with the La Marzocco
Lever X recently and we've got the flair 58 here.
So they are different.
Experiences, but
there's something quite nice about playing and drinking from a vintage machine.
I guess it's just a little different.
So filling this machine up with water, firstly.
You want to have the machine off.
If the machine is cold, you can just open this up and fill your water in.
If it's hot as this machine doesn't have a water reservoir
you're filling directly into the tank, much like a car radiator.
You can't just open it up.
So what you have to do is open your steam valve to let depressurize.
So we've already lost pressure, so there's no steam coming out.
If there's no steam coming out,
although this is still really hot, you have to be careful.
Relatively is safe to pull out and lift up and fill up.
Just lift the top of the unit out.
Now, just leaving this top of the unit out.
I've got some water here.
We can pull water in.
Ideally, you're doing it when the machine's
a little bit colder, but we just filling that back up
and then putting that top back on
just being careful because it is hot.
But ideally you're not doing it when it's hot, you're going a bit cooler.
I just wanted to show for the video how it's done.
And then.
We got the water back in there.
We can flip
the machine back on and it will build up pressure.
We've got it on min
Because I run it on Max.
Just making sure that the valve is closed.
Once it's heating up so that
it will pressurize.
Now, before we jump in and look at
this machine in terms of how it came about,
I like to know in the comments below what your favorite vintage machine.
Want to kind of get a feel for
People's favorite machine and
Maybe I'll try to get.
On the channel and play with it for everyone to see.
So for me, these machines.
Are In the Faema range, some of my favorites.
I actually have a few Faemas. The Faema E61
the one group, two group
and the three group. A Faema Lambro which is a lever machine too.
Just predating the E61
We got three of the Faema Faemina which you see here,
and we've got the Faema Faemina baby.
So I.
Am a bit of a fanboy when it comes to vintage Faemas
Faema as a factory started in 1945.
And it became.
Quite famous with the E 61 design.
That's a group head, still using on many modern coffee machines, especially in the
Higher end domestic market.
When it came to the Faema Faemina
they were around for a while and these are from 1964.
These models are actually the V 2.0.
And they been models before and after the earlier models had a different switch.
These models went into the hand of two ceramic switches
and as they evolved, they tightened up a few things here and there.
But I do feel that 2.0, the.
Ones that we have here. Were probably the nice balance.
Between evolution and vintage.
With these particular machines.
I actually found them in a strange way.
So many years ago.
I was in Newtown and I went into an antique shop.
I was looking.
For coffee gear, all the Atomics, etc.
And I saw one of these machines and I wanted to I had to have it.
I spoke to the owner of the shop and it was the only item
in a vintage shop that wasn't for sale and I thought he was trying to
lift the price up on me but no this guy would not budge
and he did not sell me the machine.
I was a bit disappointed.
A few months later I was in Italy.
And while traveling.
The north of Italy I found one in Florence and I bought it.
And then while I was in Milan I bought another one.
And then late, late in Gatta on the same trip.
I walked into a shop and they were using one.
I had money on me, they didn't find the machine all that special.
So I end up with this machine lugging it around on this little boat round
like in Gatta
was actually pretty cool story and I did look like a weirdo
so I had these back in the warehouse here in Sydney for ages.
One the display shelf. We weren`t using it
And one of our regular customers, Aiden.
Who use to build machines like both vintage machines and kind of turn
things like Silvia's into Frankenstein told me, Pedro, let me build them for you.
The same the level of his build.
And I was like, you know what.
Go for it.
So he actually ended up building like E61
One group, E61 two group.
And all three of these Faeminas
Now I've actually done a video talking with Aiden
about the build of these machines.
Which you can click.
On the link above to have a look at.
When it comes to three machines.
I bought these three by accident.
I actually only want one and then I saw another one
so the third and bought them all on the same trip.
But I do have a few things in threes.
I got the E61 in threes
One, two and three group.
And I've got the Mazzer collection, which I had an artist called Danny Willans
paint them as a tribute to my dad's artworks.
So really enough.
The collection of threes
have become quite important to me and they represent me, my mum and my dad
kind of weird, but it is a thing that I've gone down with.
With the Mazzers
We actually did a video talking to Danny Willans
Who airbrush them and the story behind them, which.
You can click on
the link above to dive into that and have a look.
I know the threes don't make sense, but I'm kind of going down this line now.
Another thing I fell in love with is serial numbers
and that's a whole different video.
I've got machines of specific serial numbers
like 001 or 005, which is my lucky number.
And I kind of became obsessed.
So yeah, my collection is kind of growing
and sometimes you just have to buy things because of the serial number
or to have a collection of three, whatever it might be.
Now talking about these Faemas
They're heavy little units
They're 11 kilos in weight and they're made of cast bronze.
They run two elements inside a 200W
And 800W
So you could have your switch
On min or max. So min being the
200 W
And max being both elements together.
So a thousand whatts the 200 hundred and 800 hundred
And at the time they were quite modern in the sense that.
Although the glass was for a side glass being able to see.
Your spring was kind of cool.
And all the design for it been your home.
Machine.
That was a lever machine.
You could use steam.
I found them quite cool.
There's something about this
Machine that to me feel special.
It feels vintage.
Yet modern at the same time.
And I am biased because they are my machines and the machines are
really wanted, And to me mean something.
But I'd like to know your thoughts.
What is your favorite vintage machines?
Let me know in the comments below.
I want to see what's popular.
Is the Faemas, is the vintage Gaggias
The onld La Marzoccos, like the GS`S
Let me know what your favorite machine is.
And hopefully the most popular ones.
I'll try to find and get on the channel.
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Yep. Looks better in the next one cup.
Ready.
We can generate a bit more so I can do
a lot more.
Yeah, that's cool.
Yep. I
like that
we can.
Yeah. Yep.
That's
my shot.