machine in this price bracket

[Sullo]

Re: machine in this price bracket

It was the OPV valve leaking and not adjusted properly for the new boiler I was advised late this arvo, Silvia is on her way back.

[JavaB]

Re: machine in this price bracket

If I could count the numerous times Ive removed a mouse from an ATM power supply sheesh the lil buggers get in everywhere, hence the dead mouse theory

Sullo,

Many moons ago I worked at Woomera (the rocket range.... not the detention centre )

We had a bad mouse plague.... and exterminators were called in over a weekend. They killed and removed all the bodies...... except for those which crawled into equipment to expire...

Monday morning.... turn on our gear (Telemetry tracking equipment for missiles).... which in those days was valve equipment (read gets very hot) with high voltages of many hundreds of volts floating about......

I think you can imagine the rest..... bit worse than a dead mouse in an ATM power supply. :-/ > >

[Sullo]

Re: machine in this price bracket

Maybe we could mix up a pangalactic gargle blaster and feed that thru the boiler perhaps?
worked in hitchhikers guide to the galaxy?
or feed a babblefish into the pf and see if "the machine" tells us the answers.
My faith is in Renzo, he will be my saviour (no religious offence intended there)

If I could count the numerous times Ive removed a mouse from an ATM power supply sheesh the lil buggers get in everywhere, hence the dead mouse theory

[robusto]

Re: machine in this price bracket

Ditto JavaB.... nothing like a good mystery. Its like reading a good book and putting it away for the night before you learn how the mystery is solved in the next chapter in the morning.


(Dennis: It is a well-dococumented fact that mice can contort themselves and squeeze into the smallest of spaces to gain access.))

--Robusto

[JavaB]

Re: machine in this price bracket

I must admit to watching this thread with great interest....

It clearly is a most unusual..... and difficult to diagnose fault.....

Maybe when they cast the new boiler (Im assuming here it is cast and only the mating surfaces are machined) some of the moulding material has been left on the inside wall of the boiler.....

Just waiting for the next instalment.

[Dennis]

Re: machine in this price bracket

What else can it be - I think the dead mouse theory holds as much weight as any other solution offered!

Lots of pressure now on Renzo to come up with the diagnosis!

[TC]

Re: machine in this price bracket

Chris

I thought that those at Di Bartoli were the experts?? and they have the machine in their hands.  They arent happy with the results either!

Will be interested to see what is wrong with her in the end.

Sue

Agreed Sue- I cant say Im not super curious....

Chris

[Sueb]

Re: machine in this price bracket

Chris

I thought that those at Di Bartoli were the experts?? and they have the machine in their hands. They arent happy with the results either!

Will be interested to see what is wrong with her in the end.

Sue

[robusto]

Re: machine in this price bracket

My posts are not meant to be offensive.

Humorous, yes, offensive no.

If others take offense from a post on the global, international, world wide web which is open to several billion people to read ---it is their problem.

I make no apologies.

--Robusto.

[TC]

Re: machine in this price bracket

Ive been enjoying this thread its been giving me a good old giggle.

I must say though Sullo you must be so frustrated.  I would have thought a machine so young would have more of a warranty behind it.  I would be devastated after spending that much and now losing her.  I can see though why you wouldnt want her back.  It does sound like you got a dodgy machine unfortunately!

Good luck with your quest for a new machine

Sue

Sullo and Sue,

There is a warranty supplied by Rancilio on all product.

As I understand, our consumer rights allow us to return a product deemed not to to be of merchantable quality for the customers choice of refund in full or brand new replacement.

I guess the issue here is merchantable quality. As others have suggested, the machine could be placed in the hands of a "specialist silvia shot puller"....This approach should provide an answer...

I am sure that the supplier wishes to resolve the issue as well...

Chris

Chris

[Sueb]

Re: machine in this price bracket

Ive been enjoying this thread its been giving me a good old giggle.

I must say though Sullo you must be so frustrated. I would have thought a machine so young would have more of a warranty behind it. I would be devastated after spending that much and now losing her. I can see though why you wouldnt want her back. It does sound like you got a dodgy machine unfortunately!

Good luck with your quest for a new machine

Sue

[Sullo]

Re: machine in this price bracket

Sorry Viv, didnt see any direction in the post wasnt jumping down your throat.
I apologuise to you on behalf of this thread then.

[JavaB]

Re: machine in this price bracket

Viv,

Ah political correctness....

I think we all (males and females) get too easily offended now.... and read things into posts/articles/speeches etc that were not intended....

As you said Silvia is normally referred to as a female, rocky a male.... (and my coffee machine I also refer to as a male!)

I often "personalise" posts (to make the post more interesting)... and if I was talking about a rocky with a problem (or my coffee machine).... Id suggest beating him into submission with a screwdriver as well....

It doesnt mean Im going to attack (or suggest someone else attacks) my 18 year old daughter or my wife wife and beat them into submission (or my son if Im using the male equivalent......) Im talking about an inanimate object.....a coffee machine which most of us give a "human" personality to.....

My comments werent meant to be sexist and if you take them that way, them I appologise..... But I think we all need to chill out on political correctness.... or soon we wont be able to say anything.... as it may offend someone.... somewhere.....

Ill now crawl back down my "personhole" and disappear!

[Viviane]

Re: machine in this price bracket

Sullo,

Thats where Robusto and I differ to your view....

We wouldnt let the little miss beat us....

Id have the lid off, screwdriver in hand to beat her into submission.... Just to get the satisfaction of proving who is the master......

No mere machine would be permitted to get the better of me..... no matter how frustrating the attempt - until I had conquered her!

Then she would be out the door....... with a smile on my face as I waved her goodbye ;D ;D ;D ;D

R.I.P. Miss Silvia, then. Her brief life was cut short and died all too young.
Never did get to be an old grandmother like her sisters.

JavaB is right. I am dogged as they come and Ive forgotten how many
times Ive said "I dont let things beat me".

But I am trying to change, albeit slowly, and put a more appropriate value on my precious time.

Sometimes I envy people like you Sullo who know when to stop and let go.

(But Id still give Silvia another try, and as JavaB said, wave it out the door, a conquered woman).

--Robusto

Geez....

Sounds like Miss Silvia has some very rare and exotic disease....

Maybe time to call in Dr House ;D ;D ;D ;D (Although Im sure DiB will scare her into submission!)

Will be watching developments with interest.....

Sullo, if youd reread your own thread instead of jumping down my throat you would realise that these were the posts I was referring to, not anything that youve written. I also refer to Silvia as "she" as do many of us. I also treat her with respect and have learned as much as possible about how she works. In return she tries her best to give me the coffee I want. Its a great partnership.

Sullo, drink some instant, plunger, whatever you have in the house to get some caffeine into your system, rather than making snide apologies to an infrequent objection to comments made here. This forum is very much male dominated, and like your Silvia problems its actually very rare for the females to feel the need to complain about the way the men here express themselves. Get over it.

[ozscott]

Re: machine in this price bracket

goodness...is this thread taking a turn for the worse....