Hi all,
Noob here so apologies if I've posted on the wrong board. My problem is thus - have recently acquired a Sunbeam EM4800C which was working perfectly for a month or two. On the weekend I decided to remove and clean the showerscreen (plus grouphead rubber collar). I also decided to clean the steam wand and remove some scummy milk buildup and instead of soaking the wand attached, I removed the wand itself to give it a good soak in the sink.
After cleaning, I have replaced the wand but notice that when screwed in there is about a 1mm gap at the top and a bit of movement with it wobbling around. it didn't do this prior. The steamer now is losing a lot of steam through this join which used to be pretty tight. The screw itself was very tight to remove but can't be tightened any further when I put it on. Have searched everywhere but it doesn't look like I'm missing a grommet from the top of the wand and i don't believe there was one to begin with. This has me wondering if the small rubber grommet around the brass inner part of the steamer has been compromised when the wand was removed, hence allowing a gap for the steam to escape out above. The machine itself is 5 years old - is this an appropriate lifetime for a grommet to fail?
Does anybody have any thoughts or insight into what the problem could be? As I said, this was working perfectly until removing the part.
Noob here so apologies if I've posted on the wrong board. My problem is thus - have recently acquired a Sunbeam EM4800C which was working perfectly for a month or two. On the weekend I decided to remove and clean the showerscreen (plus grouphead rubber collar). I also decided to clean the steam wand and remove some scummy milk buildup and instead of soaking the wand attached, I removed the wand itself to give it a good soak in the sink.
After cleaning, I have replaced the wand but notice that when screwed in there is about a 1mm gap at the top and a bit of movement with it wobbling around. it didn't do this prior. The steamer now is losing a lot of steam through this join which used to be pretty tight. The screw itself was very tight to remove but can't be tightened any further when I put it on. Have searched everywhere but it doesn't look like I'm missing a grommet from the top of the wand and i don't believe there was one to begin with. This has me wondering if the small rubber grommet around the brass inner part of the steamer has been compromised when the wand was removed, hence allowing a gap for the steam to escape out above. The machine itself is 5 years old - is this an appropriate lifetime for a grommet to fail?
Does anybody have any thoughts or insight into what the problem could be? As I said, this was working perfectly until removing the part.

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