I stumbled across what appeared to be a nice, one-owner, 90S a couple weeks ago. It was being sold because it no longer controlled it's pressure, and an attempt at repair, had failed. It's arrived and I'm looking forward to learning about it, repairing it, and of course, making...

Hi Home-Barista community, this is a cry for help! I plugged in my La San Marco 85-16-M single group machine this morning, and everything warmed up and pressurized normally. When I went to pull a shot, I found that the dosing touchpad was completely unresponsive. Even switching...

Having owned both an Izzo Vivi and currently a Rocket R58, I wonder why the e61 brewgroup is so extremely tight to operate.
In both machines I replaced the valves and partially bought new springs too, lubed everything as per instructed by guides online, but I am getting to the...

About a year ago, with much help from this forum, I rebuilt my 20 year old LaScalla butterfly. It's been working flawlessly up until today. This morning when I turned it on, I could smell the dreaded burning electrical smell (AKA letting the smoke out). Looking in through the...

Following the advice of some forum members, rather upgrading I added the Coffee Sensor flow control kit to my Zaffiro to occupy myself. I also have the quick mill pulsor en route to help quiet things down.

Installation was easy, but my old mushroom valve had some pretty...

Hey all, I opened my Gaggia Baby Twin to re align the steam valve and cam, it works well now however I can't seem to put the adhesive heating element back in all the way inside that's at the top below the cover.

Does anyone know what this heating element is for and will it...

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Long time lurker with first post here.

Am about to change the steam boiler vacuum breaker on my GS/3 AV from the old style, to the new SMA version, part number B.2.029.

I have seen images of others doing this, but am left with a few questions, the most urgent being...

Hey everyone,

Hoping someone can give me a few ideas on what to do!

I have a 6 year old Breville Dual Boiler machine.
The brew boiler is not heating - main temp is sticking around 65c - the steam boiler is heating just fine.

This morning I heard some hissing and was planning...

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I recently got my hands on a La Cimbali M20C/1. I have a fair bit of experience operating espresso machines, but not much restoring them. I think I have figured out all the levers and switches, but there are two wires coming from the bottom of the machine.
One is 110v...

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This is a factory unmodified Dual Boiler.
Preinfusion is set for 7 seconds and at 60% pressure.
This has been happening since a little more than a month.

I start the extraction, there is a little flow of water like if a valve opens but with no real pressure and the...