LONDINIUM replacing the safety valve
Finished Pavoni & Fuji PXG4 pid: Probe Inside the Ring
Delicious cup: all the work was well invested! At the end of the previous blog about the pressostat and PID working together , I mentioned that I would like to clean up the xmas tree of wires and have as few cables and probes as possible to visually disturb the classic design of the La Pavoni. Getting rid of the probe that was fastened with copper tape to the top of the brew group was a priority. I wanted to hide a new probe in the cooling fin as close as possible to the brew group. This morning I asked Tije if he could do that. He would need to drill a straight hole of 3mm diameter in the 4mm inner ring of the cooling fin that sits as a tight clamp around the brew group. Always the optimist, Tije set to work: First, Tije made a piece of aluminum to fit the inside of the ring. Drilling a thin hole straight through the curved aluminum, if possible tangentially going through the inside of the ring to touch the brew head directly, you need the support of the temporary insid...
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Have you thought about what a good comprehensive toolkit should look like for someone wishing to carry out all the maintenance activities necessary on an LR/LR24? Forgive me if you’ve already posted one and I haven’t spotted it yet.
Bleeding air in a machine is one I’ll definitely be interested in, my 24 has developed a bit of air gurgle and it’s definitely on my to-do radar, but it’s getting pushed further down the list as more pressing problems around the house take priority.
air gurgle sounds odd -- have you pinpointed where it's from exactly, what detail of the machine produces it?
If it's the boiler 'singing' when heating up, this may be lime scale around the element and cleaning it may sort it.
Making sure your water is well processed so (hardly) no lime scale can build is a good way to prevent several problems.
Thankfully I do not have the boiler “singing” as you mention above, sometimes it’s really difficult to put precisely and concisely into words the gist of an issue. Air gurgle is perhaps too strong a term, but occasionally I get a liquid sound as the pump runs and tries to deliver its water pressure. I assumed it was a little air in the system. Perhaps it’s a function of the machine. The Rotary pump on my old LR was so much louder than this quieter pump, so hearing water circulating whilst the pump runs is a relatively new thing for me - it’s a learning curve.
Thank you for your response and look forward to your next video.
I’m glad I don’t have the boiler “singing” whilst heating up, though
sometimes it’s really difficult to precisely articulate the gist of an issue. Air gurgle is perhaps too strong a term, though occasionally I get a sound as the pump runs and tries to deliver its water. I assumed it was a little air in the system. Perhaps it’s a function of the machine. The Rotary pump on my LR was so much louder than this DC pump, so hearing water circulating whilst the pump runs is a relatively new thing - it’s all an interesting learning curve.
Thank you for your response and look forward to your next video.