It is not coming out of the tiny spigot, on my machine that shiney little bent
tube isn’t hooked to anything. Water is coming out of the silver cylinder
that’s the bottom part of the grouphead, is fed from a big copper pipe.
I’m going to sand the old pressure plunger smooth and install, see if
Oh! I missed the last part of your post! Spring in brew group? I’ve never had
that apart, I didn’t know there was a spring in there! If there is it is
probably clogged with tar and scale.
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Yes! Dissembled and the seals in the lower exhaust cylinder are hard like
bakealite. No scale, no tar but seals are done-ski.
While waiting for machine to cool I Found this YouTube video, Seattle coffee
gear: internals of e61 grouphead featuring bill Crossland, describes leakage
when seals hard
Yeah, that’s a good video; I was just looking for it too. Here’s another, from
WLL: https://youtu.be/5igXx83J_Iw You can see Todd’s shining face, haha.
So yes, I’m thinking that perhaps you have a combination of hardened gaskets,
and maybe weakened springs, both of which could cause loss of pr
P.S. do the upper spring and seal also, the green one in the video you
referenced. You’ll also see wear on that (even in the video).
best,
bmc
> On Apr 13, 2018, at 09:13, Benjamin McCafferty wrote:
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> Yeah, that’s a good video; I was just looking for it too. Here’s another,
> from WLL: http
Yeah, not sure. I’ve only ever been able to source the entire kit, i.e. spring
and brass bits with seals attached already. I’d check the usual suspects, i.e.
WLL, Chris’, Seattle Espresso Gear, 1st Line.
best,
bmc
> On Apr 13, 2018, at 09:43, Eric Christoffersen wrote:
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