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  • leaky PF?

    Ive had my Rancilio Silvia for a while now and just the other day it started doing crazy things. After filling the porta filter with coffee, tamping etc... I clamped it on to the group head pressed the button and waited..only water started spraying out of the top of the PF down the sides. The gasket is clean, I tried many more times varying the amounts of coffee in the filter.. but nothing helps. too much pressure, not enough???
    any ideas out there?
    thanks

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    Re: leaky PF?

    If seal and screen area is clean and you have not been overdosing perhaps the seal may need replacing?

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    • #3
      Re: leaky PF?

      Have you been backflushing regularly? If not, that could be a candidate for the problem.

      There have been a couple of cases of Silvia users finding a piece of swarf (small pieces of material left over from machining) that have managed to work their way into the water path and caused an issue. Seems to have emerged as an issue when the machine had recently been inverted.

      http://coffeesnobs.com.au/YaBB.pl?num=1194921106/4#4
      http://coffeesnobs.com.au/YaBB.pl?num=1180869084/4#4

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