Hello folks, I have an urgent but small problem.
I (stupidly) decided today was the annual day to take out the shower screen on the old La Pavoni and clean up around the seal. I backflush regularly but I like to do this once a year to clean out the gunk that gets up around the outside of the seal
Ggaaaaahhhhh!! Now I remember that last year when I did it I couldnt get the thing back together easily. The rubber gasket just slips and pinches and goes in one one side but never the other... I am nearly to the point of wrenching the whole thing out and turning the machine upside down and taking a hammer to it.
I have tried gently knocking it back in by putting the showerscreen and gasket in place, then using the basket and a small mallet to try to exert some even pressure all round.
Ive tried a stumpy screwdriver, which works okay until I get to the point where one bit of the gasket is still bulging downwards. I push that in, and it pops out somewhere else.
I should probably fire up the atomic to take the edge off though. Hands shaking from lack of coffee....
Ggggaaaaaaaaahhhhhh again!!!
This is absolute torture! Does anyone have any suggestions? And would it be silly to lubricate the seal with silicon spray so it slips in easier? or would that be disgusting?
Thanks in advance :-/
I (stupidly) decided today was the annual day to take out the shower screen on the old La Pavoni and clean up around the seal. I backflush regularly but I like to do this once a year to clean out the gunk that gets up around the outside of the seal
Ggaaaaahhhhh!! Now I remember that last year when I did it I couldnt get the thing back together easily. The rubber gasket just slips and pinches and goes in one one side but never the other... I am nearly to the point of wrenching the whole thing out and turning the machine upside down and taking a hammer to it.
I have tried gently knocking it back in by putting the showerscreen and gasket in place, then using the basket and a small mallet to try to exert some even pressure all round.
Ive tried a stumpy screwdriver, which works okay until I get to the point where one bit of the gasket is still bulging downwards. I push that in, and it pops out somewhere else.
I should probably fire up the atomic to take the edge off though. Hands shaking from lack of coffee....
Ggggaaaaaaaaahhhhhh again!!!
This is absolute torture! Does anyone have any suggestions? And would it be silly to lubricate the seal with silicon spray so it slips in easier? or would that be disgusting?
Thanks in advance :-/

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