Hi, I did a search for stuff about this and found nothing, so here goes:
I got a silvia/rocky for xmas (woohoo!, also got a SS tamper, a bunch of espresso cup/saucers and a steaming pitcher) since this is the first serious machine I have ive been playing with it for 2 days straight trying to perfect my temperature surfing and such. For a while I had the grind too coarse and when i put it on notch 7 or 8 i started to get stronger with much better crema, the problem is though that I get a leak in the portafilter at the front and can see a stream of near-clean water dripping down the side of the filter and off the little bump between the two spouts.
Any idea if this is a PF problem? or could it be that Im over tamping (about 10-14Kg on the home bathroom scales) or overdosing or something? I dont have scales and my rocky doesnt autodose, so I just fill it till it looks about right, originally I used the little plastic measure spoon to get a feel or what that is. The PF locks on fine all the time, even when this leak is evident. I say this because once I was seeing how much i could fit in that double filter basket and wasnt able to lock the PF into the machine at all, but Ive come to realise her limits now
Just wondering if anyone else has seen this and what I could do to go about avoiding/fixing it?
Cheers, oh by the way, great forum!
I got a silvia/rocky for xmas (woohoo!, also got a SS tamper, a bunch of espresso cup/saucers and a steaming pitcher) since this is the first serious machine I have ive been playing with it for 2 days straight trying to perfect my temperature surfing and such. For a while I had the grind too coarse and when i put it on notch 7 or 8 i started to get stronger with much better crema, the problem is though that I get a leak in the portafilter at the front and can see a stream of near-clean water dripping down the side of the filter and off the little bump between the two spouts.
Any idea if this is a PF problem? or could it be that Im over tamping (about 10-14Kg on the home bathroom scales) or overdosing or something? I dont have scales and my rocky doesnt autodose, so I just fill it till it looks about right, originally I used the little plastic measure spoon to get a feel or what that is. The PF locks on fine all the time, even when this leak is evident. I say this because once I was seeing how much i could fit in that double filter basket and wasnt able to lock the PF into the machine at all, but Ive come to realise her limits now

Just wondering if anyone else has seen this and what I could do to go about avoiding/fixing it?
Cheers, oh by the way, great forum!

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