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One particularly cold February morning, I got up to discover that the auto-fill circuit on my Brugnetti Aurora had failed. As I opened up the Gicar controller a few days-without-proper-morning-coffee later to figure out what was wrong (an...

Dear all hi,
I was hoping one might have the time to suggest a fix for this issue:
I am an enthusiast and total amateur and in love with the la pavoni professional that I got off ebay.
My problem is that after lifting the lever to allow...

My new-to-me Londinium I has arrived (6 year old machine), and I've had the covers off and configuring it for tank use. The silicon tubing (around 1/4" diameter) that goes from the water reservoir to the ulka pump makes a loop very...

I'm slowly rebuilding my Cremina, and I'm wondering. I know you have to put food grade grease on the seals, but does that include ALL seals? I have the teflon boiler tank to heater gasket and the teflon grouphead to boiler tank gasket. Do...

What's the best way to clean a PF from an Elektra Micro Casa that's fairly encrusted w/ coffee oils? The basket, being steel, I'm sure will take steel wool. What about the holder? It's brass, but I think perhaps 0000 steel wool would be ok...

Hi all, I am a new owner of a VAM caravel. The little wonder got to me from ebay.it in a working order, but with plenty of gunk.
I was trying to disassemble the simple contraption, but noticed that the shower screen was not held in place...

I created a in the past about this issue but nothing helped. Currently I'm using the machine as a (very expensive) milk steam and brewing with a Flair Espresso Maker. Is my MCaL destined to be nothing more than a milk steamer, or is there...

Hi There Everyone
After successfully solving one problem (thanks to forum users!) I now have an issue were the pop up fuse on my La Pavoni is popping and needing to be reset pretty much daily. Anyone familiar with this? Thanks
Greg

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To those who do not get reference (e.g. my Boss and my daugther):
* "out" is desire to try something new for...