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Wow, how NOT to test your heating element

Postby ANeat on Tue May 03, 2011 1:03 am

Just checking out the Levers on Ebay and seen this for a La Pavoni.

Showed a pic of the heating element glowing red to illustrate how it works :shock:

Im pretty sure that youre not supposed to do that

http://cgi.ebay.com/PAVONI-EUROPICCOLA-...45fa639ec4Image
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Postby RayJohns on Tue May 03, 2011 6:57 am

probably not the best idea all right :-)

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Postby DrDregs on Tue May 03, 2011 8:09 am

Must be a Salem kind of thang ..
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Postby rawman on Tue May 03, 2011 9:59 pm

How else are you going to see what the inside of the boiler looks like??

(Kidding of course.)
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Postby craigcharity on Wed May 04, 2011 3:36 am

hummmmmmmm, CRACK........... earth leakage trips. :)
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Postby dergitarrist on Wed May 04, 2011 5:55 am

The description should read something like "The heating element used to work (see pic 3)"
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