Hey Mario On my machine there is a large hole directly under where the boiler element screws in so that the element can be removed without having to move the boiler.
The brew boiler is saturated (has no air in it) so it is not possible to empty it out with steam like you do the steam boiler and then refill it. Not sure what the burnt rubber smell could have been apart from perhaps your pump? Do you have a rotary or vibe pump? JohnB On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:57 AM, mariowar <arremue...@gmail.com> wrote: > I descaled my Brewtus III with Dezcal following John Brinkman's > instructions : > > Steam Boiler > At operating temp > > 1. Switch machine off > 2. Open water tap to remove as much water as possible from steam > boiler, close tap again > 3. Disconnect water level sensor (pull the wire off) > 4. Open steam wand > 5. Turn machine on, takes quite a while for the pump to fill up the > steam boiler, water will start coming out of the steam tip when it is > full > 6. Switch off machine > 7. Reconnect water level sensor > 8. Switch machine on > 9. Leave at operating temp for 1hr > 10. repeat > > > However, on step # 2 I Also got water out the group ( intervals of 1 > minute), until no more water got out draining the brew boiler > too.............. > On step 5, after turning the machine on , after around 30 seconds > there was a burn rubber smell for about 10 seconds, the the auto fill > kicked and I continued the descaling process. > At the end I run some of the water ith descaler through the brew head > and I noticed that it had way less scale than the steam bolier which > had around 2 8 ounce glasses of yellow water until the water became > cristal clear. > > At the end I got a leak underneath the brew boiler's element ( around > the nut).... > Could be the element's gasket? I wonder if it is possible to take > the element out without taking the boiler out of the machine........ > > Have you experienced something like it? > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Brewtus" group. > To post to this group, send email to brew...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > brewtus+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/brewtus?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Brewtus" group. To post to this group, send email to brew...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to brewtus+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/brewtus?hl=en.
