La Pavoni P67 rebuild

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craigcharity
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#1: Post by craigcharity »

Hi there guys

This is way over due but I thought I would share some of the photos of my La Pavoni P67 rebuild.
Let me take you to the beginnings:

I got it from our local Junk Mail website, I usually search these for ; espresso, coffee machine, coffee grinder etc but sometimes I type in 'espresso' just to see what comes up and this time I hit some luck. I bought it for R750 which is now about 90 or so USD.

Here are some of the strip down, I didnt have anyone to help me carry it to my back porch so I did this on my driveway and front porch:)
















Here is some of the scale from the boiler- O forgot to tell you, the guy I bought it from said it was working:)


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craigcharity (original poster)
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I had the frame sand blasted and coated in an epoxy, I didnt know it would be blue, I sprayed it black later.





I had some new springs made, I calculated the force I needed and had a local company make them. I searched high and low but couldnt find them, I later found out that it was a standard size spring that the new LP use as well as astoria etc.


here is what they looked like after being yellow passified. I found out that they began to get some surface rust so I took them to a mate who does electro-plating.


He also soaked all the copper and brass parts in some solution and then in a brightening solution to retain their shine, worked like a flipping bomb, shows you what pro's can do:)

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craigcharity (original poster)
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Here are some of the pics of the re-assembly:


I chose to re-pipe the machine since the other copper pipes looked terrible, I had to get some brass fittings to do so.






I have to go now, I will upload some more tomorrow.

Cheers for now, hope you are enjoying the photos.

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RayJohns
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#4: Post by RayJohns »

Beautiful work!

Ray

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JY
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#5: Post by JY »

Nice!

-Jim

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Chert
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#6: Post by Chert »

Looking forward to seeing more!
LMWDP #198

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allon
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#7: Post by allon »

Beautiful!
Any thoughts to adding a vacuum breaker?
Also, are this piston seals on correctly?
LMWDP #331

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craigcharity (original poster)
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#8: Post by craigcharity (original poster) »

Hi Again

I did add a vacuum breaker in the end, and yes the seals were on wrong:) I re-fitted them after I took the photo.

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#9: Post by craigcharity (original poster) »

Here is my first shot


I hadn't even fitted the drip tray as there was no place for it to drain in so I put a container under the group so I could pull a shot. It was the best shot of 'Nonmara'( the blend that I use for my mobile coffee bar business) that I have ever tasted.





Here are some of my shots once I had dialed my grinder in and set my pressure stat:





napierzaza
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#10: Post by napierzaza »

Lever machines are amazingly simple. Very nice.

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