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I just purchased my fourth Breville Barista Express BES870XL (I've previously purchased/set up three units for various offices in which I've worked). I had no problems setting up/using the previous three units, and was consistently pulling excellent shots. However,...
latest edit, 8 May 2022: I added a second paragraph to item 6 under the maintenance section. It is an ifixit guide to removing the group and the steam boiler. This has application if you have an older BDB and want to upgrade to the latest group with the two-piece collar inserts...
I've had this machine for several years and it's worked flawlessly. Each AM I turn it on, after warm up, pull a couple of double shots in the next hour or so and that's it. Several months ago the heater seemed to be acting funny so I looked into the reservoir and saw two pieces...
Our newly bought refurbished Sage Bambino Plus gave us the single and double shot buttons (1 cup and 2 cups) intermittently flashing, indicated that the machine thinks it needs backflushing. We have the newer backflush disk without the hole of the earlier disks. I put a tablet...
Feeling a little sheepish about posting this thread, as I'm thinking that what I'm looking for is in the forum somewhere, but doing a search and reading through lots of dead-ends, including seeing that the M58 owners thread was capped quite a while ago, figured next step was to...
I have purchased a CMA 3 group coffee machine but a little confused as it has 2 cables coming from the machine. One of them is the main power cable (thick wire), but it also has a 2nd cable which looks like a female italian socket? Can anyone help explain what the second...
I just got my Picopresso yesterday, I found that the water outlet piece is tiled a bit and not flush with the body (pics attached), if other folks with the Picopresso have the same thing or is a one off defect in my case, I hope It doesn't negativity impact the pressure over...
Hello. I have a Bianca that used to have an incredible heat up time...under 15 minutes as mentioned elsewhere in this forum. Something has drastically changed recently and it is now taking over an hour for the steam boiler to come up to temperature. I've had it since November...
