The sylvia Mod nearly worked (thanks Roz) but the size just isnt right. I tried with Ponte Vecchio parts but just snapped them...
So I am back to square one.
I am resurrecting this thread because I need to find someone (gas fitter? plumber? tinker?) who can bend some pipes for me to make some steam and water arms for my vintage Sama lever machines. I now have 3 machines in various states of restoration: to finish them all I need to get new pipes made as the originals are an amazingly bad design- and near useless (pictured at the top of this thread).
The steam tubes I need have several severe bends, and will need to be threaded at one end to accept a suitable steam or water nozzle. At the other end thay need to have a fitting like at the ones pictured above.
As I need 3 of each I would be happy to pay someone to make 10 or more of each (if it was economical) and I will stock them as replacement parts for the tiny handful of users around the world who have these vintage machines and need a decent steam arm.
I dont know what material would be suitable but I would be happy with plain copper if it could work.
Here is what the steam arm might look like- and also some pictures of a vintage Bezzera machine (a clone of the Sama) that already had the type of steam arm I am after, and a picture of the Sama with its inferior arms. It is hard to tell in the picture- but the Sama is small- and there is very little clearance below the steam arm. You cant fit jarge jugs under it without tipping the milk out... Also the steam nozzle hole is around 4 MM! it just blasts milk out of the jug. The water nozzle is similar- almost unusable :






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