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  • #16
    Re: Carimali Uno e Rebuild.

    Congratulations!  What a fantastic result for your blood sweat and tears!

    Sniff

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    • #17
      Carimali Uno E

      Hi

      I picked one up on the weekend . Former owner told me how well maintained it was.

      The group head was a mess along with the portafilters etc.
      Cleaned up those parts and decided to do some testing to see if this was right off.

      There's a ring off Calcium around the heating element gasket , and some signs of dripage , I thoroughly expected the fuse to blow.
      (An outfit in BC quoted me $295 for a 1800W element ouch)

      I hooked it up the dishwasher adapter kit after blowing the inerds with compressed air. $12

      I was ready to run when I plugged it in and lo and behold the pump kicked in and fill the boiler.
      Then feeling brave I turned on the heater. That worked it heated up to about 1.5 bar. Got great steam out of the wand.
      There was constant hissing from the group head and I didn't have those parts put back in.
      I'm thinking it might be a stuck solenoid and some cleaning to get it workable.

      This thread is a couple years old now . These machines are real rare in this side of Italy . If anyone has some advice or a user manual , any help would be appreciated.
      I'll try find the post at the top of this thread on cleaning the boiler without removal first. I'll also need most of the group head gaskets.

      Thx

      Fergus
      fm9@shaw.ca











      Originally posted by SniffCoffee View Post
      Congratulations!* What a fantastic result for your blood sweat and tears!

      Sniff

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      • #18
        new uno owner

        Hi fellow Uno experts after much coveting and many a conversation I have taken the plunge and bought a Carimali Uno from a second hand store. Now I have two options here really either suck it up and take it to a specialist espresso tech outfit and be prepared to pay big $$ OR have a quiet tinker with it myself having drawn on the expertize from the likes of you good folk.
        So to put it quite simply what are some easy steps that I can take to do some basic cleaning/preventative maintenance of the machine myself a which tasks should b left to the experts?

        Originally posted by Mutti0 View Post
        Hi

        I picked one up on the weekend . Former owner told me how well maintained it was.

        The group head was a mess along with the portafilters etc.
        Cleaned up those parts and decided to do some testing to see if this was right off.

        There's a ring off Calcium around the heating element gasket , and some signs of dripage , I thoroughly expected the fuse to blow.
        (An outfit in BC quoted me $295 for a 1800W element ouch)

        I hooked it up the dishwasher adapter kit after blowing the inerds with compressed air. $12

        I was ready to run when I plugged it in and lo and behold the pump kicked in and fill the boiler.
        Then feeling brave I turned on the heater. That worked it heated up to about 1.5 bar. Got great steam out of the wand.
        There was constant hissing from the group head and I didn't have those parts put back in.
        I'm thinking it might be a stuck solenoid and some cleaning to get it workable.

        This thread is a couple years old now . These machines are real rare in this side of Italy . If anyone has some advice or a user manual , any help would be appreciated.
        I'll try find the post at the top of this thread on cleaning the boiler without removal first. I'll also need most of the group head gaskets.

        Thx

        Fergus
        fm9@shaw.ca

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