I rather disagree. The mounting popularity of lever machines, along with powered machines with lever-like properties, has nothing to do with their appearance and everything to do with their performance. There have always been collectors; and collectors are going to be engagged with the physical properties of the machines. But the audience for these collectors is not interested early

I haven't taken a jet breaker apart, but I just looked at a couple spares that I have, and I think there is just some plastic baffling inside. If you remove the jet breaker from the solenoid, then you should be able to easily blow air through the jet breaker. If there is any resistance, then a soaking/flushing or two

Personally, I would consider this not part of the discussion. The lever that makes it a lever machine is a physical thing and the fact that it may or may not brew better espresso has nothing to do with it's being a lever or not

Hi all, lots to unpack here but please take a read and let me know what you think. I have a P700 since new, its about 4.5yrs old now. 1 month ago the brew relay in the Gicar failed, so when you pull the lever, nothing happened. I went about troubleshooting and working out what was wrong, and

Well yeah, you need more clearance with a spouted portafilter. Why not use the bottomless? Plenty of room. {image} L: 6cm capp cup; R: 11cm mug (thanks Ira)

I would not force it. Take it apart again and thoroughly clean it and wrap the thread with white Teflon tape

Properly wired dedicated 20 circuit with GFCI outlet

I've got a bad feeling but without that bracket to keep the valve perfectly vertical and Still those orings will probably fail sooner than later

Thank you for your input... True, the frame is rusting like crazy and this problem became apparent after taking all the tinware off and I have just rust converted all the rotting base metal and back plate metal. Does the Jet Breaker have a valve or something? I have tried cleaning it but I have not taken it apart

Hello all, recently I had to remove the solenoid valve in my Brewtus because it stopped switching. I removed the valve (which was hard work because you cannot access it easily in the Brewtus, therefore I had to take apart half of the machine in order get access to it) and descaled it - it is working again. However I