mjswooper

Cuprajake
I pulled out the mushroom and it’s peeling chrome pretty decently. Is there an issue here that the brass underneath leeches lead now? Maybe replace it with a stainless steel version?

Norvin Holy shit that is a lot of chrome flakes. Did the flaking eventually stop? I guess there wasn’t much left eh?

MediumRoastSteam

This was from the service boiler, via the tap/hot water. Much the same was out the brew boiler/group head as well.

Thanks for the super quick replies. Does your answer change if the flecks are coming out from both sides/boilers?

DavecUK

I was thinking the same… should I contact acs support? I have a video if you are curious. My theory is that its from manufacturing and it was settled on the bottom of the boilers, kicked up by the repeated boiler refills. Worst case could be stripping the chrome?

Just ran my first descaling with citric acid, 50g per litre (2litres), service and brew boiler. I’m looking at this water and it has a bunch of metallic flecks in it?

Also for reference, found some sort of grease between the e61 shower seal and head. Was giving a very weird smell, cleaned it and now fine.

I have very hard water here in Berlin.

Are there any machine specific softening solutions anytime would suggest?

I’ve seen some resin ball packets that sit in the water tank, another that attaches to the water intake pipe.

Long term I’m starting to consider a filter on the water line, any suggestions? Reverse osmosis send too expensive and buying bottles seems wasteful.

I was pretty impressed with the range of colours available, but I was aiming for a white build to match the kitchen. Better in real life actually! The paint/power smooths out the edges, softens the sound a little and it wasnt that much more expensive. The Mara X in white was a huggge jump

Long time lurker, new owner to Mignon Specialita and white Minima. Thanks Black Friday