Back in the early 2000's when I went to Ohio to the then Saeco USA importing facility for the "official" training certification , the tech dept was using the Haynes, I was personally happy with the result and of course trasted the experience they already had and move to it from what ever other produ...

Cool looks like you found one, if works eventually let me know so I'll remove you from the list, ciao Stefano

PS 2 not suggested and only for short testing purpose you an by-pass it until the replacement disclaimer NO WATER in boiler and Kabummmmmmm so eyes on the level pre-during and after a shot

In a nut-shell: I'm in the process to "design a small bracket that will attach to the bolt of the flange (one of them that will clear the Heating element post) so that will allow the p-14 currently sold (thanks for the link by the way) to be mounted on safely s/s material due to the flexibility and ...

Perhaps the product changed but some years back upon testing a sample one the temp was not that accurate, again, this was few years back and we decided not to bring them in stock

Water and pump not kicking in aka no noise is different from a pump not priming, IF you are in the opening the machine mode: locate the resettable thermostat or the heating element and first remove the current to reaching it. Then if the pump is NOT making any noise at all no humming nothing, you sh...

Locate the probe wire, making sure you are not grounding to the machine yourself (not to be risk of shocks just so you don't close the circuit) after few seconds, is the autofill kicking in?

As mentioned by Guido and most likely, when they look that bad they will most likely disintegrate upon touching them, replacing them will be a suggestion

In a nut shell: an Europiccola that was from factory without a gauge will need one fo the adapter (11 or 12mm based on the age) as for other vendors, we have a US made version as well (infact 2 miles down the orad form us) in both s/s and brass

Thumby thumby as well{video}