Thread subject: Homeroasters - Home Roasting Coffee Community :: Hot Top Owners

Posted by garybt3 on 02/01/2009 6:46 PM
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Hi Ginny!

I bought it used from a poster on the Green Coffee Buyers Club forum. I bought it for the asking price of $500 + Shipping. No pictures of it were posted, I took it on good faith. Even though I insured it for replacement cost, UPS is not cooperating. Seems like a lost cause, and I'm glad that it was not 'totaled". My advice is to double box, and pack it well, as if you expect it to be hurled down 2 flights of stairs. I think USPS would have been a better shipper than UPS, in my opinion, based on 3 damaged shipments.

He used it primarily as a sample roaster and it appeared very well seasoned. It cleaned up very nicely, soaking the parts in a hot water/Cafiza bath. With the new panels installed, it looks like new.

Very well built roaster that's fairly simple to work on. I like it.

I'll always answer your questions, Ginny ;)