Europiccola The Rebuild Part 2 Rising from the Ashes

[whispertread]

Supremely informative. Thanks u helped me tighten a loose boiler on a Pavoni only 9 months old that had worked loose. Your vid gave me the confidence to remove boiler element and give the huge ring-nut a bash with a hammer and a small cold-chisel to tighten it 1/8th of a turn. It's now tight.

What's more it's water tight and still heats up the water.

I just wish Pavoni had not put a strange hollow torx headed bolt to secure the plastic base. It has a tiny spindle nipple in the middle - crazy!

[normbear]

When you describe checking for alinement before tightening the flange, you say, "You won't get a second chance." Why is that? If you were off the first time, couldn't you just loosen it, realign and tighten again? Love your videos. I ordered the rebuild kit.

[orphanespresso]

You can find the parts, seals, gasket & tools at orphanespresso com - on the left side, click LEVER MACHINES GASKETS SEALS & PARTS, then on the right side, second line down, click LA PAVONI EUROPICCOLA, PRO

thank you for asking!

[gst69man]

where do I buy the seals and parts for a rebuild?

[szsven]

Great videos, thanks for making these! Only trouble I ran into (aside from breaking the rod seal snap ring) was fitting the piston seals without rolling them. I had to use a tiny screwdriver to lift the seal out of the piston groove and then ran the screwdriver around the ID of the seal a few times until it rolled back into position on the piston. The silicone grease really helped with this.

[ivideoproduction]

Great video, cheers. Are you using anything in particular to lubricate it? Also the group piston gaskets, can I just cut the old ones off to replace them?

Many thanks

[gst69man]

I have an europiccola from 2001 with a temperature limiting device that directly connects to the element. I am experiencing erratic on off's so I guess the temp limiting sensor is going bad. When I looked in your website, the temp sensor looked a little different. Yours is like a round cyninder with terminals, mine is a device with a thumbscrew adjuster ( wont move). Do I have to remove this so the temp sensor you sell goes inside of this part?

Ferd

[juderoberts1of]

Great video , good work , thanks to you my la pavoni will be new again , Jude.

[Clean767]

Awesome instructions: But I have a newbie question:

To clarify, when you lube the BOTTOM boiler gasket under the machine, do you lube both sides? or just the upper or lower side?

thx Gary

[orphanespresso]

@Clean767 Hello, the tidiest way would be to lube the flange nut - the idea is for the nut to slide on the gasket, rather than drag along.

[Travisrex]

Thanks for this. My machine is now working like a dream!

[ruralblight]

Thank you so much for these clear, elegant instructions. I was at wit's end trying to insert the piston into the cylinder of the group without tearing or twisting the u-rings. Every other instruction blithely stated that you just push it up into the cylinder. GACK! It doesn't just push. Per your illustration, tucking the outer edge of the u-ring into the cylinder was the magic. Beloved La Pavoni now operates like a new machine out of the box. Maybe better. I might have despaired without you.

[Jabbawack]

Great work. I hope I will, someday, have the time (and all the equipment) to rebuild my europiccola.