Hi, my sunbeam 6910 after years of service has given up. It might be the thermal fuse from what I’ve read (green light comes on but never reaches ready despite having heated up) or might be more. I’ve no idea how expensive or difficult it is to fix. I have a sunbeam Torino grinder which seems fine, bought new for $100 on trademe, I’ve never tried another. Together these two machines produced pretty good coffee I thought.
so I can take for repair or maybe it’s time for a new one? Problem is the options in NZ even are a bit overwhelming. Perhaps I need to upgrade the grinder too?
for the machine my criteria is as follows:
1. I will never buy a breville or sunbeam new as I’m violently opposed to closed box machines that are intended for landfill (my sunbeam was 2nd hand). But they do come up second hand so that’s one option.
2. I love the fast start up on the sunbeam and the low maintenance and good milk steaming (soy flat whites and macchiatos) and the quick switch from the shot to the milk
3. Makes 2-3 coffees per day
4. Don’t want to spend a fortune on maintaining it.
there’s a shop in Auckland that sells Lelit. I’m not sure there are any other options in the under 2k range. Can anyone recommend make/model that might suit? I get confused about what PID, heat exchanger, single/double boiler etc are and which I should be looking at.
thanks!
so I can take for repair or maybe it’s time for a new one? Problem is the options in NZ even are a bit overwhelming. Perhaps I need to upgrade the grinder too?
for the machine my criteria is as follows:
1. I will never buy a breville or sunbeam new as I’m violently opposed to closed box machines that are intended for landfill (my sunbeam was 2nd hand). But they do come up second hand so that’s one option.
2. I love the fast start up on the sunbeam and the low maintenance and good milk steaming (soy flat whites and macchiatos) and the quick switch from the shot to the milk
3. Makes 2-3 coffees per day
4. Don’t want to spend a fortune on maintaining it.
there’s a shop in Auckland that sells Lelit. I’m not sure there are any other options in the under 2k range. Can anyone recommend make/model that might suit? I get confused about what PID, heat exchanger, single/double boiler etc are and which I should be looking at.
thanks!

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