Greetings fellow coffee lovers,
I've recently purchased a bellman cx25 style machine from eBay. It's obviously an old machine not one of the more current remakes. I'm struggling to get a good brew from it so far and I'm trying to troubleshoot the machine, as I've followed every tutorial I could find on the best way to brew with a bellman to no avail. All the seals are intact and have not perished but I'm not getting a steady flow of coffee from the spout even if I close the coffee valve after the first few drops come through and wait for pressure to build. I may not be waiting long enough (2-3 minutes) but all I'm getting is watery brown liquid, nothing like the shots I've seen coming from these devices on YouTube. The leftover water after brewing looks like a better coffee than what I'm getting out of the spout! [emoji13] Well maybe not but it's obvious I'm getting some leakage back into the boiling chamber. Since the seals appear to be ok my only theory is that the leakage is occurring in the brew basket, I don't have another machine to compare it to and I've googled images of the replacement brew baskets and none of them appear to have any holes on the side of the brew basket, but mine does! Two small holes about 2/3 of the way up the basket at 12 and 6 o'clock. Could any other bellman owners confirm if they have such holes. They appear to be there by design not a user mod but maybe I have an old revision and need to purchase a new basket or change the brewing method to get better coffee. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. [emoji3]
I've recently purchased a bellman cx25 style machine from eBay. It's obviously an old machine not one of the more current remakes. I'm struggling to get a good brew from it so far and I'm trying to troubleshoot the machine, as I've followed every tutorial I could find on the best way to brew with a bellman to no avail. All the seals are intact and have not perished but I'm not getting a steady flow of coffee from the spout even if I close the coffee valve after the first few drops come through and wait for pressure to build. I may not be waiting long enough (2-3 minutes) but all I'm getting is watery brown liquid, nothing like the shots I've seen coming from these devices on YouTube. The leftover water after brewing looks like a better coffee than what I'm getting out of the spout! [emoji13] Well maybe not but it's obvious I'm getting some leakage back into the boiling chamber. Since the seals appear to be ok my only theory is that the leakage is occurring in the brew basket, I don't have another machine to compare it to and I've googled images of the replacement brew baskets and none of them appear to have any holes on the side of the brew basket, but mine does! Two small holes about 2/3 of the way up the basket at 12 and 6 o'clock. Could any other bellman owners confirm if they have such holes. They appear to be there by design not a user mod but maybe I have an old revision and need to purchase a new basket or change the brewing method to get better coffee. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. [emoji3]


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