by Spresso_Bean on Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:30 pm
I have wet steam from my Junior also, although my probe is set to keep the water level in the boiler as low as possible and it's approximately 3/4 of the way up to max level from the minimum. I would guess the previous owner shortened the probe, but on my Junior the probe is vertical - the newer models appear to have a different boiler with the probe on the end cap which has it running horizontally, so it depends on which model you have. I just purge as much wet steam as I can and then do the milk, and it seems to work fine. My guess would be that even if you had scale on the probe, the front sight glass would still reflect the correct level inside the boiler, wouldn't it? If you followed the steam piping from the wand to the boiler, there's a short section of metal tubing that sticks down into the boiler, so if the water level is too high it might be sucking some boiler water out which would cause wet steam. I don't know how that would happen at the minimum level, though.
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