Rather than just a repair issue, this has been a fascinating insight into design of electric products, and points of failure
Somehow the person who owned this machine managed to get water into the top at the front - not something the designers ever thought would happen...
Somehow the person who owned this machine managed to get water into the top at the front - not something the designers ever thought would happen...
https://twitter.com/jonworth/status/1473243732212436996
This has meant a part - the switches to turn the machine on - failed
Even getting switches out of the machine is not simple, while replacing anything else on a Gaggia espresso machine is easy
Even getting switches out of the machine is not simple, while replacing anything else on a Gaggia espresso machine is easy
Getting spare switches is - you guessed it - also not so straightforward, because those aren't the part that normally fails (pump and boiler are)
Also having disassembled the switches, what failed is also interesting - the contacts themselves are some sort of alloy, so were OK
But the springs holding the contacts in place had rusted to dust
But the springs holding the contacts in place had rusted to dust
This also underlines why #RightToRepair matters - were this stuff not so modular this machine would end up being thrown out
As it is - despite the unusual failure here - I have a decent chance of making it work still
/ends
As it is - despite the unusual failure here - I have a decent chance of making it work still
/ends
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