I have a brass boiler Family that I purchased off gumtree for $40! Has been working beautifully... but turned the machine on the other day and something ( i am thinking the element?) on the top of the boiler went bang...with flames and smoke. Question, does the Silvia element fit the family. I have tried Coffeeparts but they do not list any boiler parts for the Family. I am unfortunately in the middle of rebuilding our original Family (bought new in Fivedock in the nineties) with the ally boiler so we are back to using the trusty atomic.
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Hi Atomicbomme,
Did you solve the problem of finding a heating element. I bought one from Coffeparts.com Australia and they sent me one thta I think is for the aluminium boiler the bolts are too short I'm missing 3 mm.
I'm not quite sure if to modify the boiler or where to find the correct element.
Thanks.
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When you say the bolts are too short, could you not use one bolts or is the another issue this causes?
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