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Last time I was on maintanance with my Breville used CAFIZA from Urnex to clean the portafilter, left the basket in with portafilter submerged with a tablet ( plastic was outside the water detergent only touched metals ) and I left it overnight finished the clean and I...
My Rocket Appartamento started acting up (again...) yesterday. When I switch it on, I can hear the click of the pressurestat but the heating element does not kick in. I suppose I have to replace the latter, but I'm posting this before ordering it from Rocket just to ask...
Hi everyone.
I just bought a used Rocket R58 (2015 model), coming from a HX machine. I grew tired of temperature-surfing.
I have a few questions regarding this machine or dual boilers in general:
1. I couldn't help but installing Eric's thermometer on the e61 just to check how...
First time poster after going through numerous helpful posts. The issue I'm having has really confused me. For background a close friend of mine passed me his machine as he's moving back to Europe, he had mentioned it recently had stopped being able to reach the right...
I just got back my appartamento after a long international relocation.
For some reason the machine turns off exactly at the two minutes mark. It just goes into blinking. It is always at two minutes mark. It maintains pressure in the boiler but doesn't start the pump...
This is regarding the gas control regulator (pictured) of a 196? Gaggia Orione 2 group lever. The internal flexible diaphragm has become both rigid and deformed. I would like to replace if possible the diaphragm alone. This may not be possible due to lack of availability. Has...
So I recently picked up a v1.4 Piccola. I wanted to do the newer 2 pole element with the pressurestat that Francesco did. I ordered all the necessary parts from Stefano's. They were very helpful and knowledgeable in coordinating my order with me. As I went to...
Can anyone identify this shower screen.
It appears to be a good replacement/mod to provide shower and retention of group seal. This is for a 2 group levered Gaggia America. I only have the one screen currently. It's dimensions overall including outer lip is 62mm dia, overall...
First time poster on the forum, greetings from rainy Ireland. Seeing a lot of really interesting posts here and have a lot of reading to do, so thanks in advance for the great treasure trove of detail the forum members have already put together.
