💵 For Sale Sivetz 8 lb (3.6 kg) electric coffee roaster - NEVER USED!

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I bought two Sivetz electric roasters (never used) from the San Juan Islands of Washington State - an 8 lb and a 12 lb.
Here is their history: a wealthy couple from Texas retired to the San Juan Islands and got bored. They decided that since there was no coffee roaster on the island, that this would make an enjoyable and profitable business. They visited Michael Sivetz and ordered the two roasters above. By the time they arrived, someone else has already started a coffee roastery on the island and they did not think that there would be enough business for two. So they "mothballed" the equipment. Fast forward some number of years and they were moving away from the island and so they gifted the equipment to their neighbor, who was a hobbiest roaster with a 1 lb Sonofresco. Fast forward a few years and their neighbor has never done anything with the roasters and I get wind of them and liberate them to Nebraska.
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I'm now ready to put the 12 lb into operation in my biz, and have decided to pass the Sivetz 8 lb. roaster with original control box on to someone who knows what a find this is. It still has much of the protective film on the stainless steel. I also have (in PDF form) the original instructions & documentation that came with it, originally.

Willing to ship for whatever the actual shipping cost to your location would be. I'm located in South Central Nebraska and would be willing to meet part way, for the right buyer. $6000 OBO.

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I bought two Sivetz electric roasters (never used) from the San Juan Islands of Washington State - an 8 lb and a 12 lb.
Here is their history: a wealthy couple from Texas retired to the San Juan Islands and got bored. They decided that since there was no coffee roaster on the island, that this would make an enjoyable and profitable business. They visited Michael Sivetz and ordered the two roasters above. By the time they arrived, someone else has already started a coffee roastery on the island and they did not think that there would be enough business for two. So they "mothballed" the equipment. Fast forward some number of years and they were moving away from the island and so they gifted the equipment to their neighbor, who was a hobbiest roaster with a 1 lb Sonofresco. Fast forward a few years and their neighbor has never done anything with the roasters and I get wind of them and liberate them to Nebraska.
:)
I'm now ready to put the 12 lb into operation in my biz, and have decided to pass the Sivetz 8 lb. roaster with original control box on to someone who knows what a find this is. It still has much of the protective film on the stainless steel. I also have (in PDF form) the original instructions & documentation that came with it, originally.

Willing to ship for whatever the actual shipping cost to your location would be. I'm located in South Central Nebraska and would be willing to meet part way, for the right buyer. $6000 OBO.

Pics coming...
Hi, I am on the UT/CO border, not too far that I couldn't make the trip out on a weekend to negotiate on your Sivetz 8 lb'er. 801.699.6864
 
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Hi, I am on the UT/CO border, not too far that I couldn't make the trip out on a weekend to negotiate on your Sivetz 8 lb'er. 801.699.6864
I’ll find you & be in touch. (Pics added).
I have it sitting on a scale to determine shipping weight.
 
Hi Cheeky,
Thank you for the photos, and after seeing the roaster, I will keep looking. I am used to roasting on drum roasters, and that just looks too far of a shift for my background/experience to use it properly. But I am further concerned that the open air roasting chamber will overheat my small shop space.
 
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No problem!
If you know, you know. If you don't you don't, but these roasters are low maintenance and bulletproof, which is why so many people continue to use them for decades (all over the world). They also don't have the thermal mass of drum roasters and so can be FAR more agile.

As far as the heating part goes, most users simply pull the air into a chaff cyclone, like an exhaust hood. (Hot air rises, natrually). A blower (such as is used on a dust collection system) pulls the heated exhaust air out and pushes it on out the chimney/side wall/whatever works for your particular situation.

This image is not my roaster but it shows you ONE way to arrange the roaster/controls/variac/ along with your cyclone/exhaust blower. In my own case, I'm putting the cyclone under a "doghouse" on the OUTSIDE of my roastery, with just the hood ducting coming through the wall thimble.

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