I have a simple 1 heating element 12-cup coffee maker (Gevalia brand) which turns on, but the heating element is no longer heating. This means that both the base plate is not heating and the brewer is no longer heating the water. Pressing the on button effectively results in...

My Sync is about 13 months old, used for two espresso drinks each day. This week the brew lever had become increasingly difficult to operate; especially when pushing down to stop the flow. I am typically performing a flush cleaning of the brew group at about 100 cycles. My water...

Hello Robot lovers, Cafelat Robot is a tool with a very high potential, but piston and PF pre-heating are necessary in light roasted beans. There are some techniques to do this, for example pre-heating by plugging something in the bottom of the blind basket and filling it with...

Hello Home-baristas,
I have been reading a lot and many posts have been very helpful, thank you all for that!
I am a espresso machine technician and my post is to -maybe- help someone else.

My last job was on a Astoria Pratic avant and came in for a maintenance after not being...

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Please help, my lelit Marax suddenly doesn't turn on. It has no power at all. Anybody could assist? Is there a fuse to replace? Anybody has experience with this?

Thanks is advance

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...

I have the Breville Oracle Touch and I replaced all the top o-rings (the blue o-rings).

I found the probes were *still* leaking from the center (not from the blue o-rings). I found info about changing the second, smaller, o-rings that are inside the probe, under the ceramic...

I first posted about my dripping steam wand back in 2021 (see forum post: Breville Dual Boiler BES920XL: Steam Leak at Top of Machine ).

I tried replacing the steam wand with a new factory one I ordered online, but I've now noticed that the lower part of the valve leaks steam...

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Can anyone advise me about a problem please?
The Rancilio Silvia is pumping water fine and running shots but after I switch off the shot switch, some water is dripping out of the overflow behind the group head. i.e. a spoon or two of water drips out of the overflow after I...

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...