I am currently stuck with my Sunbeam Cafe Crema. While the machine has served me well enough for the past 2 or so years, it seems to have had enough today. I made 4 coffees from 3 pucks, heavily tamped and rather finely ground (#2.5 on a commercial grinder, for my retail customers. Its the grind we normally use for our decaf.)
The coffees came out fine, quite slow, but thats how I like em.
Then came the trouble. I turned knob to steam mode, I hear the pump start thudding loudly, as per usual, but after the normal 30-60 second wait, no steam. This has happened before, so I let the machine keep going and leave a cloth below the wand so that it doesnt send water everywhere when it starts. About 5 minutes later it finally starts, very loudly at first, and then after a moment its very, very soft steam, no pressure at all. I turn then knob back to the middle, but the "steam" keeps coming out.
Anyone know whats going on? Even if I unplug the machine it seems to leak steam, and if I turn it on and turn iit to steam it starts giving me the same slow steam. >.<
The coffees came out fine, quite slow, but thats how I like em.
Then came the trouble. I turned knob to steam mode, I hear the pump start thudding loudly, as per usual, but after the normal 30-60 second wait, no steam. This has happened before, so I let the machine keep going and leave a cloth below the wand so that it doesnt send water everywhere when it starts. About 5 minutes later it finally starts, very loudly at first, and then after a moment its very, very soft steam, no pressure at all. I turn then knob back to the middle, but the "steam" keeps coming out.
Anyone know whats going on? Even if I unplug the machine it seems to leak steam, and if I turn it on and turn iit to steam it starts giving me the same slow steam. >.<

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