Single Boiler Machines

Just a quick update. I have taken the manual reset stat out and have spoken with BellaBarista. The stat is actually 165c. The difference between the 2 stats 165c vs 140c is apparently down to the stea...

Or even similar in principle to the Ross Spencer’s Portaspresso, the original was hand cranked, he followed up with a compressed air powered version. https://portaspresso.com/

I don’t know the settings having not tested that particular machine…for this you will have to send an e-mail to Lelit support.

Thanks for your reply Dave. I’m wondering now if it was cracked at the point where the thread ends as I’d just got the thread started when it snapped, no warning at all. But yes they are cheap hopeful...

For some reason you cant from the main page…I changed some things, perhaps it somehow affected that. But if you go into a discussion area, you can create posts. I think I did something funny with tags...

Hi, I have same problem, my leakage is at the top, at the plastic tubing, i tried pfte tape there…I am going to try maybe cutting 4mm off the tubing to get a “cleaner” place for the valve to bite… but...

Contact retailer asap and send it back.

Decent no longer use a flow meter to monitor flow, as my understanding is they have not found one which is accurate or responsive enough. They use an algorithm to estimate flow instead, which is calib...

The pulls average about 18 seconds. That’s super helpful, I’ve just realised I had the temp on the lowest setting, which might be causing some of the issue, will take a look to see if it changes thing...

Hi, I’m in the market for buying an expresso maker I can tweak to my heart’s content. I’ve seen a second hand Gaggia New EVO Classic ( Europe ) I can buy for 200euros Looks in good condition. Is it a ...

In this lengthy post, there was discussion of the Lelit Elizabeth’s OPV spiking pressure. The conclusion was that the lelit part (MC931) had a batch of bad valves. I’d expect that by now this no longe...

@Wellnesscafe lets get back to some basics, bearing in mind my interest and key knowledge area is prosumer machines.. perforated tube for heating the cups, can’t see it, not aware any machine has that...

Thanks for that. I was initially dead set on getting it but the more I looked the more I realised it looks like any generic replacement. There’s obviously nothing wrong with it, but I think I’d rather...

it would definitely leave water in the boiler, but I guess the real question is does that matter. If it went to steam temp previously that will have made everything sterile, and if it’s not use then t...

Yes, that’s what I meant, thanks, just wasn’t sure because they were soo tight.

initial guess would be the solenoid valve could be partially blocked. Might be easier to open up the machine to descale and clean the 3 way solenoid valve

The classic is a single boiler, so you need to refill the boiler. My comment is based on the Rancilio Silvia, but all single boilers are pretty much the same so this should apply. Usual approach is: s...

The machine is on eBay now, I will swap the OPV seal for the one in the 2018 V5 so i can deal with any problems with the new seal in future. I’ve seen the seal listed on a Canadian website (out of sto...

I know exactly the sort of smell you mean! It’s very strange that nothing looks amiss when you look inside. I guess some component must be overheating somewhere.

I posted this at the ‘other’ forum, but in the spirit of building useful info for this forum I thought I’d recreate it here. The flat shower screen mod is fairly common for Rancilio Silvia’s, but not ...