Hello Paul.
Thank you very much for trying to help. For the moment I am just setting 
Cache Timeout to 24 hours to get over this problem but I would very much 
prefer to be able to just completelly remove old cache.

Here are my logs with LOG_LEVEL='DEBUG'

Start log

2017-02-28 13:21:20 [scrapy] INFO: Scrapy 1.2.1 started (bot: testSpider)
2017-02-28 13:21:20 [scrapy] INFO: Overridden settings: 
{'AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY': 50, 'NEWSPIDER_MODULE': 'testSpider.spiders', 
'FEED_URI': 'items.csv', 'CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN': 3, 
'AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY': 0.8, 'HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES': 
[300, 301, 302, 400, 401, 403, 404, 500, 502, 503], 'SPIDER_MODULES': 
['testSpider.spiders'], 'AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY': 2, 'HTTPCACHE_ENABLED': 
True, 'CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP': 1, 'BOT_NAME': 'testSpider', 
'LOG_FILE': 'logfile.log', 'HTTPCACHE_DIR': 'httpcache33', 'FEED_FORMAT': 
'csv', 'AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED': True, 'DOWNLOAD_DELAY': 1}
2017-02-28 13:21:20 [scrapy] INFO: Enabled extensions:
['scrapy.extensions.feedexport.FeedExporter',
 'scrapy.extensions.logstats.LogStats',
 'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole',
 'scrapy.extensions.corestats.CoreStats',
 'scrapy.extensions.throttle.AutoThrottle']
2017-02-28 13:21:20 [py.warnings] WARNING: 
c:\python27\lib\site-packages\scrapy\utils\deprecate.py:156: 
ScrapyDeprecationWarning: 
`scrapy.contrib.downloadermiddleware.useragent.UserAgentMiddleware` class 
is deprecated, use 
`scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.useragent.UserAgentMiddleware` instead
  ScrapyDeprecationWarning)

2017-02-28 13:21:20 [scrapy] INFO: Enabled downloader middlewares:
['scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpauth.HttpAuthMiddleware',
 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.downloadtimeout.DownloadTimeoutMiddleware',
 'testSpider.middlewares.RandomUserAgentMiddleware',
 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.defaultheaders.DefaultHeadersMiddleware',
 'testSpider.middlewares.ProxyMiddleware',
 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.retry.RetryMiddleware',
 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.redirect.MetaRefreshMiddleware',
 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpcompression.HttpCompressionMiddleware',
 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.redirect.RedirectMiddleware',
 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.cookies.CookiesMiddleware',
 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.chunked.ChunkedTransferMiddleware',
 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.stats.DownloaderStats',
 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpcache.HttpCacheMiddleware']
2017-02-28 13:21:20 [scrapy] INFO: Enabled spider middlewares:
['scrapy.spidermiddlewares.httperror.HttpErrorMiddleware',
 'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.offsite.OffsiteMiddleware',
 'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.referer.RefererMiddleware',
 'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.urllength.UrlLengthMiddleware',
 'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.depth.DepthMiddleware']
2017-02-28 13:21:20 [scrapy] INFO: Enabled item pipelines:
[]
2017-02-28 13:21:21 [scrapy] INFO: Spider opened
2017-02-28 13:21:21 [scrapy] INFO: Crawled 0 pages (at 0 pages/min), 
scraped 0 items (at 0 items/min)
2017-02-28 13:21:21 [scrapy] DEBUG: Telnet console listening on 
127.0.0.1:6024
2017-02-28 13:21:22 [scrapy] DEBUG: Crawled (200) <GET 
https://***.com/catalog/products/appraisal-form?sku=7619002> (referer: 
https://***.com/client/)
2017-02-28 13:21:22 [scrapy] DEBUG: Crawled (200) <GET 
https://***.com/catalog/products/appraisal-form?sku=7619002> (referer: 
https://***/client/) ['cached']


then it goes on like this ...all requests are ['cached']


End log

[scrapy] INFO: Closing spider (finished)
2017-02-28 13:23:49 [scrapy] INFO: Stored csv feed (5379 items) in: 
items.csv
2017-02-28 13:23:49 [scrapy] INFO: Dumping Scrapy stats:
{'downloader/request_bytes': 10802020,
 'downloader/request_count': 21516,
 'downloader/request_method_count/GET': 21516,
 'downloader/response_bytes': 31302380,
 'downloader/response_count': 21516,
 'downloader/response_status_count/200': 21516,
 'finish_reason': 'finished',
 'finish_time': datetime.datetime(2017, 2, 28, 11, 23, 49, 220000),
 'httpcache/firsthand': 32,
 'httpcache/hit': 21484,
 'httpcache/miss': 32,
 'httpcache/store': 32,
 'item_scraped_count': 5379,
 'log_count/DEBUG': 26896,
 'log_count/INFO': 10,
 'log_count/WARNING': 1,
 'request_depth_max': 3,
 'response_received_count': 21516,
 'scheduler/dequeued': 21516,
 'scheduler/dequeued/memory': 21516,
 'scheduler/enqueued': 21516,
 'scheduler/enqueued/memory': 21516,
 'start_time': datetime.datetime(2017, 2, 28, 11, 21, 21, 134000)}
2017-02-28 13:23:49 [scrapy] INFO: Spider closed (finished)

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