Servis Supertwin Mk2 value?
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Sadly they don't fetch much these days but we do have a member who wants one. Unfortunately he is in Italy but you might be able to work out a deal together:
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Norfrost twin tub....YES or NO?
I'd like to buy it, I saw some videos on youtube and looks a nice machine, did you ever see one? Your opinions? Would you say Yes or No for it? Thanks anyone in advance! ;)
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brummybear
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What make
Hello could you let us know what machine you are selling please perhaps a pic?
Hello could you let us know what machine you are selling please perhaps a pic?
kenmoreguy89
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Just replied to the email thank you for mentioning me!
We just had some extra expenses this month so this is the worse time for this beautiful occasion, but I could not ask to Nina to wait further anyway and this is such a nice occasion for me to get a Servis twin tub so I will make all the possible to have it now as it is just happend that I met a so kind person available to ship, I saw them many times on sale on ebay but most of the times sellers does not want to ship just local pick also beacuse auctions always ends up being a low income so none would take the bother to plan a shipping, not to mention to Italy!
I do really appreciate the availability to ship to me! Thank you Nina!
Hope we can agree this sale and shipping!
Thank you again Phil for mentioning me!
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We just had some extra expenses this month so this is the worse time for this beautiful occasion, but I could not ask to Nina to wait further anyway and this is such a nice occasion for me to get a Servis twin tub so I will make all the possible to have it now as it is just happend that I met a so kind person available to ship, I saw them many times on sale on ebay but most of the times sellers does not want to ship just local pick also beacuse auctions always ends up being a low income so none would take the bother to plan a shipping, not to mention to Italy!
I do really appreciate the availability to ship to me! Thank you Nina!
Hope we can agree this sale and shipping!
Thank you again Phil for mentioning me!
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No problem, Freddy. I also posted on the British Expat. Italy section. It might be worth keeping an eye on that site to see if other people are doing similar trips from UK to Italy:
kenmoreguy89
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Thank you Phil
Thank you Phil, didn't understand well how that website works though, if I have understand well it is about people moving to Italy and having left space in the van? is it safe to deliver my stuff with them? I mean nobody would steal it? Also where could I go to pick it up? My father has a truck but he always need it to pick up materials as he is restructuring his farm, also if the Servis will be shipped far from here? I mean for ex in Rome? How could I get it? Rome is so far from here....
I'd like so much the idea to save on shipping.....just hope to make a feasible thing and not hazardous... you know.... a courrier would deliver directly to my house, also would provide insurance if it's get damaged.....
Please could you explain me how it would work?
Thank you again phil!
Thank you Phil, didn't understand well how that website works though, if I have understand well it is about people moving to Italy and having left space in the van? is it safe to deliver my stuff with them? I mean nobody would steal it? Also where could I go to pick it up? My father has a truck but he always need it to pick up materials as he is restructuring his farm, also if the Servis will be shipped far from here? I mean for ex in Rome? How could I get it? Rome is so far from here....
I'd like so much the idea to save on shipping.....just hope to make a feasible thing and not hazardous... you know.... a courrier would deliver directly to my house, also would provide insurance if it's get damaged.....
Please could you explain me how it would work?
Thank you again phil!
It was a long shot anyway as the machine would have to somehow get from Scotland to wherever in UK they were taking the van. I think the van will be going to Verona which again is some distance from you. They were not even offering to move items to Italy, their offer was to transport stuff from Italy to UK.
I still think it might be a potential way of transporting a machine though, as members of such forum sites are often in the process of relocating and are transporting furniture etc. You might find there are Italians moving to UK who have a similar expatriate website.
The website is for British people who are moving or living in other countries. I use it to get information about Hungary from other Brits who live here.
I used to be on a site for vintage radios and TVs. The site was used to operate an informal "courier service". Members often sold or gave away equipment to other members and they would post that they needed a set taken from e.g. Yorkshire to Devon. Someone might reply that they could get it from Yorkshire to Birmingham. Someone else might then be able to get it further south and it would eventually get to the new owner. I often helped move such things on my trips from Scotland to visit my family in England. It was safer than sending them by post or DHL etc. as equipment often gets smashed that way. You do need to trust the other forum members but I never heard of anything getting stolen. Usually the items did not have much monetary value anyway which was another reason for finding a cheap way of transporting them.
I still think it might be a potential way of transporting a machine though, as members of such forum sites are often in the process of relocating and are transporting furniture etc. You might find there are Italians moving to UK who have a similar expatriate website.
The website is for British people who are moving or living in other countries. I use it to get information about Hungary from other Brits who live here.
I used to be on a site for vintage radios and TVs. The site was used to operate an informal "courier service". Members often sold or gave away equipment to other members and they would post that they needed a set taken from e.g. Yorkshire to Devon. Someone might reply that they could get it from Yorkshire to Birmingham. Someone else might then be able to get it further south and it would eventually get to the new owner. I often helped move such things on my trips from Scotland to visit my family in England. It was safer than sending them by post or DHL etc. as equipment often gets smashed that way. You do need to trust the other forum members but I never heard of anything getting stolen. Usually the items did not have much monetary value anyway which was another reason for finding a cheap way of transporting them.
Shipping
Here is another suggestion for you. I am in the catering equipment business and there are at least two Italian companies (maybe more) who ship equipment to the UK - Ambach Ali (based in Caldaro) is one I can think of, I cannot recall the other just now. It is possible that you might be able to get the machine shipped back to Italy as their shippers return in their lorry.
Even better, a UK company called Falcon Foodservice Equipment is part of the Ali group. They are in Stirling which is north of Lanark (Larnark is near a motorway) so it is possible that Ambach may even have lorries going there which could perhaps pick up for you.
All this would take organisation and probably a considerable number of phone calls and emails but it might be worth a try.
Note, they say it needs a replacement hose. That sounds like the drain hose which by all accounts is impossible to find as "one" hose has actually two "cores" - use the search facility on Imperial forum to find Austin's thread on how he got over that problem.
Good luck
Al
Here is another suggestion for you. I am in the catering equipment business and there are at least two Italian companies (maybe more) who ship equipment to the UK - Ambach Ali (based in Caldaro) is one I can think of, I cannot recall the other just now. It is possible that you might be able to get the machine shipped back to Italy as their shippers return in their lorry.
Even better, a UK company called Falcon Foodservice Equipment is part of the Ali group. They are in Stirling which is north of Lanark (Larnark is near a motorway) so it is possible that Ambach may even have lorries going there which could perhaps pick up for you.
All this would take organisation and probably a considerable number of phone calls and emails but it might be worth a try.
Note, they say it needs a replacement hose. That sounds like the drain hose which by all accounts is impossible to find as "one" hose has actually two "cores" - use the search facility on Imperial forum to find Austin's thread on how he got over that problem.
Good luck
Al
kenmoreguy89
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Thank you!
Thanks Phil and Al!
Well that would be nice if I can find someone moving to Italy and yes of course a potential cheap way.... Phil, but that would be a great favor to ask to strangers even if I would pay them for the favor, not sure if everyone would do that, here in Italy not so many.... also I don't think i will find so easily british people moving to Italy at least near to me....
About the catering that would be also a nice cheap option, just need to contact these companies and see, it's not nice to say but this for an italian would be the strangest of the things......here in Italy such kindness and such favours are not usual at all, sad but this is the italian mentality..... and even if Italy is often described as a country of "warm" and kind people it is not the truth at all, rather most of the times it is the opposite, I always found much more kindness elsewhere in the world and Europe than here, also here most o who would accept such a thing would be just to take advantage of the situation and steal the stuff .... in Italy everyone thinks about themselves and stop... and also over here if I would ask such a thing to a catering company or such they would reply: " Hey did you exchange us for private courriers?'"<span class="st"> </span>
This is the response I would likely get...but since <span class="st"> it doesn't cost anything to try</span> I will try to contact Ambach Ali, I can see they're based near Bolzano, so almost in Austria so not completely italians, Bolzano it is not back of beyond but anyway not behind the corner from me so I'd probably need a courrier from Bolzano to here....it would be cheap just not sure if that company would loose time just for me being just a perfect stranger....anyway will try both the options thank you all!
P.S
I could not find the discussion about the hose, what was the title/thread?
Thanks!
Thanks Phil and Al!
Well that would be nice if I can find someone moving to Italy and yes of course a potential cheap way.... Phil, but that would be a great favor to ask to strangers even if I would pay them for the favor, not sure if everyone would do that, here in Italy not so many.... also I don't think i will find so easily british people moving to Italy at least near to me....
About the catering that would be also a nice cheap option, just need to contact these companies and see, it's not nice to say but this for an italian would be the strangest of the things......here in Italy such kindness and such favours are not usual at all, sad but this is the italian mentality..... and even if Italy is often described as a country of "warm" and kind people it is not the truth at all, rather most of the times it is the opposite, I always found much more kindness elsewhere in the world and Europe than here, also here most o who would accept such a thing would be just to take advantage of the situation and steal the stuff .... in Italy everyone thinks about themselves and stop... and also over here if I would ask such a thing to a catering company or such they would reply: " Hey did you exchange us for private courriers?'"<span class="st"> </span>
This is the response I would likely get...but since <span class="st"> it doesn't cost anything to try</span> I will try to contact Ambach Ali, I can see they're based near Bolzano, so almost in Austria so not completely italians, Bolzano it is not back of beyond but anyway not behind the corner from me so I'd probably need a courrier from Bolzano to here....it would be cheap just not sure if that company would loose time just for me being just a perfect stranger....anyway will try both the options thank you all!
P.S
I could not find the discussion about the hose, what was the title/thread?
Thanks!
I suppose it is down to cultural differences but a lot of people in Britain and other countries get pleasure from helping others and I think that is one reason that forum sites like this are so popular. Those giving advice may never get anything in return apart from the satisfaction of having helped a like minded individual. I once took a Velocette motorcycle all the way from northern Scotland to London for someone and all I got in return was a weeks free parking for my van, while I went abroad on holiday. On the other hand, I have sometimes been on the receiving side. When I was touring New Zealand a member of the same Velocette forum site had me staying for a week at his main house and at his lakeside weekend chalet, took me on trips to Milton Sound and other places and lent me one of his motorbikes.
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Servis TT 2 in 1 pipe.
After much pondering and trying to find the needed bits I have at last been able to replicate a modern version of a 60's classic. The Servis Twin Tub 2 in 1 pipe is once again fitted and working a treat. Austin The first pic shows the machine with 2 hoses.
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I don't think the later models had that hose arrangement but the fill hose has to have the correct shape end to plug onto a socket in the fascia for rinsing. I just had a look in my shed and found a new-old-stock fill hose so if that is the one that is needed I can supply it. Alternatively, it looks like the fitting that plugs into the machine could be transferred to a replacement universal hose if it is still present and intact.
kenmoreguy89
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Hi All, I've contacted Nina but didn't get any response yet......I suppose someone else contacted her before me or she decided for an easier sale.....
Wished it was the good occasion....I think will have to wait.....
Thank you very much anyway to all!!!!
Wished it was the good occasion....I think will have to wait.....
Thank you very much anyway to all!!!!
kenmoreguy89
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In the email she sent me she signed as Nina.......
kenmoreguy89
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Well, what to say at this point.....congrats to the one who snapped it under my nose!
