Hi,
Ive broken my Gaggia and I need some help please. For some background this is the story so far.
The unit is a Gaggia Coffee Deluxe manual espresso machine which recently was leaking water through the group head. By searching and reading this forum I diagnosed a group head gasket replacement was in order. I ordered one of those from the good people at Dibartoli and it arrived lickety split. After consulting this website page http://www.bluebox.com.au/jcrayon/gaggia/ I decided to give changing the gasket a crack. Anyway as I had some time on my hands I decided to disconnect all the wires (after taking a dozen photos and numbering all of the connections) and remove the boiler unit to give it a proper seeing to. I removed the shower holding plate and took the bolts out for the group body to get internal access to the boiler unit. Anyway, long story short I cleaned it all up, and I mean shiny clean, replaced the gasket and put it back together, taking care to get every wire connected back in the right place.
When I turned it back on the little red power light came on to signify power and then 5 minutes later the green light came on as it should. I clicked the bottom button to pump the water through and everything worked perfectly. Nice clean, hot water through the shower screen. A couple of minutes later steam came out of the shower screen and a lot of it. I just looked at it and thought it must be just water sneaking its way back into the various pipes and nooks and crannies in the machine. After a minute or so the steam stopped. Came back an hour later and the green light has gone out and the boiler unit and group body are cool to the touch. The pump still works if you flick the switch over.
This is the schematic for the Gaggia if that helps. http://www.partsguru.com/user/ER0077-01.PDF
So in summary, the pump works, theres power but the water is not getting heated. Im thinking one of the thermostats is cactus or the fuse (part 47 on the schematic) has something to do with it. How do I check or test a thermostat to see if that is the problem. Do I have to go to a coffee machine guru or can a sparkie help me? Is there something else that may be the problem if its not the thermostat?
If this is not DIY fixable could someone please suggest a repairer in Brisbane.
Many thanks in advance if anyone does reply to this. I apologise for the lengthy first post but I thought it was better to have too much information than not enough.
Muz
Ive broken my Gaggia and I need some help please. For some background this is the story so far.
The unit is a Gaggia Coffee Deluxe manual espresso machine which recently was leaking water through the group head. By searching and reading this forum I diagnosed a group head gasket replacement was in order. I ordered one of those from the good people at Dibartoli and it arrived lickety split. After consulting this website page http://www.bluebox.com.au/jcrayon/gaggia/ I decided to give changing the gasket a crack. Anyway as I had some time on my hands I decided to disconnect all the wires (after taking a dozen photos and numbering all of the connections) and remove the boiler unit to give it a proper seeing to. I removed the shower holding plate and took the bolts out for the group body to get internal access to the boiler unit. Anyway, long story short I cleaned it all up, and I mean shiny clean, replaced the gasket and put it back together, taking care to get every wire connected back in the right place.
When I turned it back on the little red power light came on to signify power and then 5 minutes later the green light came on as it should. I clicked the bottom button to pump the water through and everything worked perfectly. Nice clean, hot water through the shower screen. A couple of minutes later steam came out of the shower screen and a lot of it. I just looked at it and thought it must be just water sneaking its way back into the various pipes and nooks and crannies in the machine. After a minute or so the steam stopped. Came back an hour later and the green light has gone out and the boiler unit and group body are cool to the touch. The pump still works if you flick the switch over.
This is the schematic for the Gaggia if that helps. http://www.partsguru.com/user/ER0077-01.PDF
So in summary, the pump works, theres power but the water is not getting heated. Im thinking one of the thermostats is cactus or the fuse (part 47 on the schematic) has something to do with it. How do I check or test a thermostat to see if that is the problem. Do I have to go to a coffee machine guru or can a sparkie help me? Is there something else that may be the problem if its not the thermostat?
If this is not DIY fixable could someone please suggest a repairer in Brisbane.
Many thanks in advance if anyone does reply to this. I apologise for the lengthy first post but I thought it was better to have too much information than not enough.
Muz



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