Bringing a 1970s lever back to life
A fifty-year-old lever machine is mostly brass, a spring and four seals. Here is the order to work in, and the two faults that mean walk away.
Manual machines
Lever and hand-pump machines where you control the pressure curve yourself.
Articles
Lever machines: spring against direct
A spring lever pulls a curve the machine decides. A direct lever pulls the curve your arm decides. That single difference sorts every lever machine sold.
Manual lever machines, and who they are for
Spring lever against direct lever, what shaping pressure by hand really gives you.