Europiccola The Rebuild Part 2 Rising from the Ashes
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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!
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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.
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where do I buy the seals and parts for a rebuild?
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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.
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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
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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
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Great video , good work , thanks to you my la pavoni will be new again , Jude.
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!
orphanespresso 5 months ago
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
Clean767 1 year ago
@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.
orphanespresso 1 year ago