Well my trustworthy and great work horse ECM giotto premium has been playing up a bit recently so i decided it was time to either a: Buy a new machine or b: fix it and give it a good clean up.
The machine is just on 5 years on and in that time has been on from morning till bed time everyday.
The work horse
After lots of dicussions with Chris from Talk coffee i decided to give it a shot and fix it.
Parts i will be changing are pressurestat, anti vac and control box.
will also give at a complete descale.
Today i decided to pull it apart, i also decided to try and document it best i could, so if anyone else is in the same situation, they can try to tackle it themselves.
Word of warning however, you do this at own risk.
So on with the show.
My machine was already cold, if its hot, i recommend you let it cool down, would also pay to empty the boiler the night before.
Once the machine is cold, take the water tank out and remove the top, its only 4 screws holding it in place.
Looking in from the top
you can now take the back and side pannels off.
They are held in place by 2 bolts on top per side and 2 bolts per pannel underneath. You just need to undo the bottom bolts a little and once the top ones are out, the pannels just slide out.
completely open
following are some more pics with names to most of the parts you will find inside.
Parts list one
Parts list two
Parts list three with boiler removed
Here is a pic of the boiler, you can see the amount of gunk that has built up over the years. It is very hard and crusty.
Most of the connectors from the plumbing work is the same.
Boiler
to remove the boiler is fairly straight forward.
The is only one bold underneath the boiler holding it in place. The other things holding it there is the plumbing work.
so undo all the plumbing work, and the one bolt under the boiler and she will come out easily.
At this point its even easier to get tot he pump and anything else hidden down the bottom which may need replacing.
Finally here is a pic of the heating element. Chris, talked me through measuring it to make sure it is ok.
Heating element
Tomorrow i will throw all the brass pipes and the boiler into a bucket full of descaling solution and give them a huge clean up.
Once that is done, i will replace the parts that need to be replaced and put my baby back together again.
I will try and take more pics again to show just how clean we can hopefully get this machine.
The machine is just on 5 years on and in that time has been on from morning till bed time everyday.
The work horse
After lots of dicussions with Chris from Talk coffee i decided to give it a shot and fix it.
Parts i will be changing are pressurestat, anti vac and control box.
will also give at a complete descale.
Today i decided to pull it apart, i also decided to try and document it best i could, so if anyone else is in the same situation, they can try to tackle it themselves.
Word of warning however, you do this at own risk.
So on with the show.
My machine was already cold, if its hot, i recommend you let it cool down, would also pay to empty the boiler the night before.
Once the machine is cold, take the water tank out and remove the top, its only 4 screws holding it in place.
Looking in from the top
you can now take the back and side pannels off.
They are held in place by 2 bolts on top per side and 2 bolts per pannel underneath. You just need to undo the bottom bolts a little and once the top ones are out, the pannels just slide out.
completely open
following are some more pics with names to most of the parts you will find inside.
Parts list one
Parts list two
Parts list three with boiler removed
Here is a pic of the boiler, you can see the amount of gunk that has built up over the years. It is very hard and crusty.
Most of the connectors from the plumbing work is the same.
Boiler
to remove the boiler is fairly straight forward.
The is only one bold underneath the boiler holding it in place. The other things holding it there is the plumbing work.
so undo all the plumbing work, and the one bolt under the boiler and she will come out easily.
At this point its even easier to get tot he pump and anything else hidden down the bottom which may need replacing.
Finally here is a pic of the heating element. Chris, talked me through measuring it to make sure it is ok.
Heating element
Tomorrow i will throw all the brass pipes and the boiler into a bucket full of descaling solution and give them a huge clean up.
Once that is done, i will replace the parts that need to be replaced and put my baby back together again.
I will try and take more pics again to show just how clean we can hopefully get this machine.

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