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Coffee Discussion boards => Hardware & Equipment => Topic started by: seldomseensmith on March 12, 2012, 09:07:42 PM
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I lay here tonight a victorious man. After years of daily online searching, today I found my 4 barrel Jabez Burns sample roaster. I found it online, and within 30 minutes was in my truck driving the 8 hours round-trip to pick it up. Now I'm home, it's in my shop, and I'm smiling.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Flipin' sweet!
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Dude! that 's so cool.
Quadruple PID's here we come? ;D
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Dude! that 's so cool.
Quadruple PID's here we come? ;D
Probably just quad-thermocouples.
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Very nice... now the fun begins.
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Congrats on the new roaster.
We want pics! Pics!
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Congrats on the new roaster.
We want pics! Pics!
I'll dust her off a bit and post some pics, maybe tomorrow?
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Well done seldomseensmith!
Can't wait to see your new baby!
:)
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Congrats!!!! 8)
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Wow!
Bravo!
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Good for you! Where did you have to go to get it? How did you go about finding it? I look every week for Jabez Burns, Barth, and Gothot sample roasters and I have for the past 4-5 years. I have only found 2 for sale on craigslist.
One was in Oakland, California, was a 4-barrel and the person wanted $800 . . . . Guess who bought that?!? Sweetmarias. The second was about a year ago, in Metro Chicago, it was a 3-barrel and they were asking $3,000. I would consider both to be a deal. It seems like refurbished ones fetch about $3k-$4k per barrel.
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Congrats !!! WOW 4 roasts going at once.
Yesterday I had the Behmor and the Hottop going at the same time while rebuilding the carburetor on the weed whacker :o. Man I hope I find that missing screw before the Vario does 8)
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Good for you! Where did you have to go to get it? How did you go about finding it? I look every week for Jabez Burns, Barth, and Gothot sample roasters and I have for the past 4-5 years. I have only found 2 for sale on craigslist.
One was in Oakland, California, was a 4-barrel and the person wanted $800 . . . . Guess who bought that?!? Sweetmarias. The second was about a year ago, in Metro Chicago, it was a 3-barrel and they were asking $3,000. I would consider both to be a deal. It seems like refurbished ones fetch about $3k-$4k per barrel.
My Methods: Everyday I do a nationwide Search Tempest search for "coffee roaster." Whenever I find any commercial roaster for sale, I email the person selling to inquier if they happen to have a sample roaster they are selling. Most people get annoyed, but yesterday I got this response: "I have a four barrel Jabez Burns, $4000." I ended up grabbing outside of Philly. I paid $3700.
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Pictures or it didn't happen. :P
Seriously, though, congratulations on a great score.
It's not cleaned up yet, but whatever, those pics can come later.
EDIT: I went ahead and turned it rightside up for you, hope you don't mind... Aaron
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Nice!
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SWEET !! Hope you don't mind I was getting dizzy looking at it sideways :D
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SWEET !! Hope you don't mind I was getting dizzy looking at it sideways :D
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I was actually about to ask if somebody could do that for me.
Thanks!!!
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Jeffo could fix it gooder ;D but I played a little
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Hmmm looked better on my screen than posted
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I'm having a real internal debate over weather I should leave the aesthetic in it's original historic form, or to tear it down and powdercoat everything. I for sure want to rebuild the internals.
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I vote for the patina.
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Rebuild it but keep the vintage look. No powder coat.
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I would just disassemble and clean it with very mild cleaning agents intended for antique items. If you call a local museum of history the curator will likely be able to recommend products that will allow you to clean it while keeping the patina it has worked so hard to get. If it was trashed I would say completely redo it, but it looks like it is in really nice shape.
Very cool looking! Great strategy for finding it too!
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PATINA IT IS!!!!! (less work for me :-))
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Safe to take mild soap and water to it tonight?
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Safe to take mild soap and water to it tonight?
This is directly off of Antiques.com . The article is about cleaning / maintaining old metal antiques.
'If there is no deterioration of the metal, then this patination should under no circumstances be disturbed. A sparing application of a good quality transparent wax polish carefully removed with a silk cloth should not do any damage to a patinated object and will improve the surface.'
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That's a beautiful thing. To learn from your example, IF you should decide to sell, please contact me!