Pre-millennium la Pavoni Europiccola sight glass question - Page 2

#11: Post by **homeburrero** » August 25th, 2015, 5:47 pm

OldNuc wrote:The folded brass "T" piece at the top of the sight glass prevents those floating level indicator balls from getting lost above the viewing range or flushed into the boiler. There is usually one in the lower end of the sight glass as well for the same purpose. Interestingly floating level indicators do not appear to ever have been generally installed in the La Pavoni Europiccola or Professional by the factory. If there is no floating indicator ball then the brass "T" is serving no purpose or function.

Nice catch there, Rich. I was like others - knew that it wasn't a standard Pavoni part, but had no clue what it was. I'm always learning new stuff on this forum.

#12: Post by **OldNuc** » August 25th, 2015, 9:09 pm

The only reason I caught that is I have a sight glass mod in the works and remembered how the ball is captured in a rotometer. I did not check the machines with an indicator ball as it skipped my mind.

August 31st, 2015, 12:43 pm

Just got a 2 switch La Pavoni from the late 70's/early 80's and this brass t-piece was indeed present. No reason that I can think of to leave it there. There was, of coarse, no indicator ball.

#14: Post by **grog** » August 31st, 2015, 2:24 pm

I rebuilt a mid-to-late 80s Europiccola (no date stamp I could find) and it had this same weird piece above the sight glass. Until this thread appeared, I assumed it was an aspect of the damage that led to the broken sight glass I was replacing, since it looked like it had been squashed. Sounds like these were used intermittently for at least a decade?