Incidental that is also the best way to remove the sour salt from the brew boiler after descaling
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 1:00 PM, bobvilax2000 <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's good advise from Barry. What happened was that when the > solenoid clicked to refill the steam boiler it released the pressure > from the group. I think when the group just sits pressurized with the > pump off it's around five bar while the steam path is around 1.2.. > It's really taking that much water to clean out? Unless my logic is > wrong, I wouldn't think that the second it takes for the solenoid to > click over would be enough to pull that much cafiza up. > > Good luck, > - -Barrett > > On May 1, 1:43 pm, Barry Luterman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Take the tubes out of the water reservoir and flush the brew boiler. > Replace > > the tubes let it refill and then flush again with the tubes out of the > > reservoir. > > > > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Ben McCafferty <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I was just doing a backflush of my machine with Cafiza, and put the > powder > > > in the blind PF as usual, then pressurized the machine, and turned off > the > > > pump (leaving pressure on the group). Thinking I'd do two things at > once, > > > I > > > pulled a pitched of hot water off the wand for cleaning other things. > > > > > This depressurized the group, which surprised me (I'm not all that > familiar > > > with the flow of the plumbing). I guess it makes sense, since both > boilers > > > and the group are downstream from the pump. > > > > > After this, the water from the steam boiler seems to be running clear, > but > > > it took me forever to clear the Cafiza from the group. I must have > flushed > > > two quarts of water through and it's still slightly cloudy. This is > not > > > normal for me. > > > > > So I'm wondering whether I inadvertently drew Cafiza into the brew > boiler, > > > and/or steam boiler? Is this possible? > > > > > I'll keep diluting, but man my pump is getting a workout. > > > > > tx, > > > bmc > > > "Faith will move mountains, but you'd better bring a shovel....." > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Brewtus" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/brewtus?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
