Greetings Fellow Brewtuses (Brewti?), My adventure continues. I upgraded my Brewtus to the Joysticks from Chris Coffee and they look great. Those who have done it know you need the "Adapter Kit" as well. I struggled to find additional beveled copper washers but got that solved, I finally just went back to Chris Coffee and they were happy to help me out. The do deserve the praise they get as they are a helpful bunch over there.
Having put the steam assembly back together, I'm still leaking like crazy. I was hoping someone else who has done it can share what they've done and I could follow that. Here's exactly what I did: 1. Using a socket, securely tighten the nut to hold the wand assembly to the unit itself. 2. Coat the male threads on the steam want with pipe compound. I used this instead of the teflon tape. After the wand is secured, it is really tight in there and would be hard to wind the teflon tape so I thought pipe compound would be easier. You can't coat (or tape) the treads before putting it on the machine because you need to put the mounting nut on it. 3. very tightly tighten the adapter nut onto the steam wand. This is the nut that comes with the Adapter Kit from Chris Coffee. 4. Coated the male threads again but this time on the adapter nut. 5. Put the small copper washer on the hose which they meets into the adapter nut 6. Finally tighten the flare nut that is on the copper hose itself Not much to it and shouldn't be that hard. But, leak it does, right onto the PID controller. Any suggestions on this? It does seem simple and shouldn't be this hard. Bruce In Winnipeg. -- 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.
