Sounds like more than one problem. Teflon tape or liquid food safe pipe dope will work fine. I think I used the liquid when I added the LaMarzocco wands. Mine uses a pump so it works differently but the problem you're having with the wand shouldn't affect the brew pressure.
On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 11:33 AM, winnipegger65 <[email protected]> wrote: > I had done exactly that (remove cover and look carefully). No luck but > then went for round two. Better luck this time. > > The leak is coming from the steam wand. So, its leaking from the steam > wand, dripping to the bottom (left side) running to the right hand side, > and out the bottom. I guess this is easy enough to fix and I'll do that > tonight (Monday). > > I had retrofitted the steam and hot water wands with joysticks from Chris > Coffee. They were working well for many months until now. Is there any > special thread tape I should be using and am not? > > Second question...I noticed the brew pressure was down from 8 to 6 bar. > Can this leaky steam wand be responsible for that? I would think not so > maybe there is yet another problem. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
