ACS Vesuvius Evo Leva

boshk probably shouldn’t happened

It’s probably a part of wear and tear (occurring sooner than expected), although the leak was at a very inconvenient location.

Recently, one of our cars reported an engine fault. Upon investigation, they detected the fault to a small moving part costing a few pounds. This required a change. But, they had to remove most of the fixings as that inexpensive part was at the bottom. It was an expensive repair costing hundreds of pounds in labour.

I’m glad we could carry out DIY repair of the coffee machine ourselves.

I had reported it initially in addition to a loose steam arm. We had thought fixing the loose steam arm would make the leak go away. Alas, it didn’t 😂 I still need to rip the machine like Jake did.

boshk wow, that’s a lot of hard work to fix something that probably shouldn’t happened. Maybe pass it on to ACS so they can review/test and assess whether to ‘thread lock’ vs ‘tape/paste’ that part?

Was done Last October, where I recommended a flexible thread sealant be assessed and used. It should mitigate the issue. It doesn’t happen on many machines, but it can happen. This is because the same valve is also used on the standard Vesuvius.

DavecUK Removing that elbow pipe from that tricky corner was almost an impossible task, which took me more than a hour to remove. The access and the permanent glue made it harder.

I need to get a replacement elbow pipe. Local hardware don’t have them.

Does anyone know what size is this and where you get them please ?

Won’t put this back! 😭

LMSC The fittings people are indicating are BSP tapered fittings, you need BSPP, male and female elbow fitting! Super difficult to find in the UK.

DavecUK Should this not be ok?

https://www.thehosemaster.co.uk/bspt-male-bspp-female-equal-elbow

Assuming it is ¼”!

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I have asked ACS the details.

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No! The above is BSPT to BSPP

Another one here

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No! BSPT to BSPP

DavecUK BSP tapered fittings,

That’s BSPT

Then, BSPT for male and BSPP for female. Hence, BSPT male to BSPP female elbow should work, no?

LMSC none of those are BPS = BSPT, and the first one you linked to is BSPP male and BSPT female.

Both sides need to be BSPP. I did check my spares box this evening, but unfortunately I don’t have any of those elbows at all. My recommendation would be, Make up a small list of spare parts you would like (seals, gaskets, temp sensors, etc.. contact Maria at ACS tomorrow and get her to put a kit together.

If it’s small and light Paolos nephew is coming to stay with me for a while, he arrives 21 Feb, he might be able to bring them with him and I can post them to you.

In the interim, you can use the machine as long as you don’t turn on the steam!.

There is this:

https://espresso-solutions.co.uk/modbar-fitting-elbow-1-8-bspp-male-x-female/

or this, which doesn’t look tapered in the photo, so you could ask them.

P.S. I am just guessing they are BSPP fittings on the machine and not metric. I’m also assuming they are not tapered? I just confirmed with Italy this evening, they are BSPP.