La Buvette
La Buvette drinking bowls and spare parts
La Buvette is a name associated with livestock watering equipment: drinking bowls, troughs and the valve assemblies that keep them filled. Here you will find a small, focused selection of bowls and the service parts that go with them, covering both the cast iron and stainless steel bowl types and the float-operated water supply used in LAC-series waterers.
Most of the demand for parts on equipment like this comes from two places. The valve mechanism, which opens and closes many times a day, and the plugs and seals that hold water in the trough between cleaning cycles. Both are replaceable, which means a bowl or a waterer that has stopped holding or stopped filling can usually be put back into service without replacing the whole unit.
What the range covers
The products listed above fall into a few clear groups, and it is worth knowing which group you are shopping in before you compare part numbers.
- Drinking bowls – the cast iron horizontal paddle bowl F11 with a stainless steel paddle, and the stainless steel F110 Inox bowl supplied with a tube.
- Valve assemblies – the complete valve for the F30 drinking bowl, supplied in a blister pack, and the float valve for the Lac 5.
- Floats – the replacement Lacabac float, a single yellow float body, carrying manufacturer reference 1090865.
- Drain plugs – the drain plug set for LAC 5, LAC 55 and BIGLAC waterers, reference 1090857.
Bowls and valves are not interchangeable across the whole range. A valve built for the F30 bowl is designed around that bowl’s body and mounting, and the Lac 5 float valve belongs to the LAC family of waterers. Matching the model name on the part to the model name on your equipment is the single most reliable check you can make.
Float valves, floats and the parts that wear
A float-fed bowl or trough works on a simple principle: as animals drink, the water level falls, the float drops and the valve opens until the level is restored. Because the mechanism cycles constantly, wear tends to show up as a valve that drips continuously, a valve that no longer opens fully, or a float that has taken on water and no longer rises high enough to shut the supply off.
- Dripping or constant trickle – usually the sealing element inside the valve. A complete valve, such as the blister-packed unit for the F30, replaces the whole mechanism in one go rather than rebuilding it piece by piece.
- Slow filling – check for debris and scale in the inlet before assuming the valve has failed.
- Overflowing trough – often a damaged or waterlogged float body. The Lacabac float is sold as a single float body, so it can be swapped without touching the valve.
- Water loss overnight – look at the drain plug and its seal. The plug set for the LAC 5, LAC 55 and BIGLAC covers this on those waterers.
Finding the right reference number
La Buvette parts are identified by reference numbers such as 1090865 for the Lacabac float, 1090861 for the Lac 5 float valve and 1090857 for the drain plug set. These references appear in the manufacturer’s parts documentation, and they are the quickest way to be certain of a match, because several visually similar components can share a family resemblance while differing in thread, length or seating.
If you have no documentation to hand, work from the equipment first. Identify the bowl or waterer model, then the position of the part within it, then compare the old component with the listing: thread type, overall length, and the diameter and thickness of any seal. Measuring a used seal is approximate, since rubber compresses and swells in service, so measure the housing it sits in where you can. Photograph the assembly before dismantling it; the order in which washers and seals sit is easy to forget once everything is on the bench.
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Here we list La Buvette drinking bowls together with the service parts that keep them working: complete valves, float valves, replacement float bodies and drain plug sets for the LAC 5, LAC 55 and BIGLAC waterers. The emphasis is on the components that are genuinely consumable, so an installation can be repaired rather than replaced.
Each listing carries the model or reference it belongs to, which makes cross-checking against your own equipment straightforward. If the model name or reference number on your part does not appear here, note it down together with the measurements before ordering, and compare it against the nearest listed equivalent.