QuickMill Verona 2B - Rotary Pump Issue

jrling

I have a Quickmill Verona 2B with an excellent rotary pump. It’s 12 years old and has worked perfectly. Recently however, the pump motor began to make a quieter than normal noise and stopped pumping water. Was intermittent for a while, then one day it would not pump on turn on when the machine was calling for topping up the boiler and so the GICAR control unit would not start the machine heating.

I feared an expensive repair or new motor.

However, it turned out that the motor start capacitor was failing. When I took it out, it measured 2.5 mF when its spec was 6.3 mF. A £6.86 Ducati replacement from Amazon was fitted (easy once you get the case panels off) and Hey Presto normal service resumed!

For anyone like me who does not know how to get the case panels off the Verona, here is an excellent YT vid on how to do it -

This repair would probably apply to any machine with a rotary pump.

Elcarajillo

I have an original Verona ( in bits at the moment awaiting a replacement brew switch).

I have also had the problem with the pump / capacitor twice but an easy quick fix.

No lights / cables on mine but it does have an extra screw in the middle / bottom of the side panels.

I also formed a wire ‘staple’ to short out the float sensor to enable me to run the machine with the tank out of the machine when working on it .

jrling

Good idea re float switch.

Presumably brew switch is really a generic item?

They are excellent quality machines and for E61 probably amongst the best. I got it, like many others I suspect, after reading DaveC’s extensive and positive reviews on it. He was I guess responsible for some of the design positives.

Elcarajillo

jrling The brew switch is not readily available part, it has been on order from Ferrari Espresso since before Christmas (has to come from Italy on order) only other place America .