Hi all, I purchased my Expobar Brewtus II as a refurb from Whole Latte Love in 2009. Living on the Oregon coast far from any repair facilities, I've had to learn to take care of repairs/replacement parts myself — pumps, relief valves, pressurestats. I'm not naturally a mechanical wiz, but I've managed somehow, and my Brewtus has served me well for seven years.
I got up this morning, turned on the Brewtus, and came back half an hour later to make my morning big gulp triple cappuccino. Started pulling my shot — fine — and went to steam my milk/butter/coconut oil concoction (for Bulletproof Coffee). Nothing. No steam pressure. Initially, I thought that perhaps the steam nozzle might be plugged, but no. Glanced up to see the steam gauge at ZERO. It's Saturday (of course — nothing ever breaks during the week, only on weekends), so I can't get help from WLL. Thought I'd check here first. For troubleshooting purposes, everything works but the steam boiler — water heats up, pump operates, brew boiler pulls a shot at 9.5 bars. Only the steam boiler is dead. Does that indicate a PressureStat failure? I replaced the original pressurestat in 2012 with a heavier-duty Jaeger PressureStat. I was hoping it would last forever, and I've had no trouble with it for four years. My Brewtus has been fine all year right up through yesterday, so this is a sudden and complete sudden failure of something. Is the pressurestat the most likely culprit? I wondered if perhaps the high-limit switch had tripped, so I looked for it on both boilers. Curiously, the tiny red reset button on both switches has sunk into the housing, so there's just a nipple with hole in the switch on each boiler. Is that OK? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Brewtus" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/brewtus. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
