Hello everyone! I've just purchased a second-hand Gaggia TD. It looks like a solid single group machine, and was manufactured in 2002. Now the problem: as soon as I plug in the machine (when it is turned off), the house's circuit breaker trips and all the electricity in the house goes off. I tried p...

After having sawed off a few millimetres of the group screw, I am happy to report that the Pavoni works great! However, it does seem that the shower screen I bought (with the indented center) is not the right one. I think this is clear from the parts shown on page 6 of this PDF from a Romanian parts

Thank you all for your replies. I will put the groups back on tomorrow, and will test it out with a smaller screw. When I bought the machine, it had the parts you see in the pictures below. The Pavoni parts supplier told me they were not original Pavoni parts and should be changed (at first I just

I'm giving up on the Pavoni parts supplier here in Belgium, he is really terrible. I'll have to figure things out by myself, with this forum's help! For the dispersion disk, screen and head screw to work together, I think all I need is a different head screw. The one I have seems to be too long, and...

Thank you for your replies. Here are some more pictures. The group (took it off to drill holes into the completely hard gasket, impossible to remove it any other way): {image} The dispersion screw, shower screen, and screw: {image} {image} I thought the only part that didn't fit was the screw. If th...

Hi, I have nearly finished restoring a two group Pavoni P/tre (or P3V2), and have just one issue to resolve. I have bought new dispersion screws, shower screens and screws because of issues with the existing ones. The problem is, once I screw in the dispersion screw, shower screen and screw into the...

Hi, I am restoring the same Pavoni as yours but with two groups (P3V2). It's a superb machine that is very well built, so if I were you I'd try getting it to work again. I faced very similar issues when I first started up my Pavoni that hadn't been used in 10 years. 1. The Procon