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Hello, After only 17,488 coffees! ... our De’Longhi ECAM 23.450.S is suffering from brain or bladder problems. This is a failure to direct water to the group for either rinsing or coffee-delivery. The water drains internally to the tray and the good, dry, ground coffee gets dumped to the grounds container. I have descaled and even opened the box to check internal pipes and valves; but there have been no improvements in this wasteful but intermittent fault. I suspect it could be a sticky directional solenoid valve or a logic controller failure - any recommendations from forum experts would be gratefully received. Alistair

Where to start please? The Europicolla worked ok one day, then trips MCB circuit breaker for mains sockets the next. Happy to strip down and rebuild but would appreciate some advice on likely cause. Thanks in advance.

Hi, first post here and can't find anything similar to the problem I have - any help appreciated. I have an old Gaggia Coffee machine (about 18yrs old). It's been maintained well, descaled reasonably regularly, etc. A few replacement parts (gasket, brew head, etc). It's worked so well for 18 years, I'm loath to buy a new machine which will be less repairable. A few days ago water stopped coming through the brew head. Steamer still works. I've checked for airblocks using usual methods and can't find any problems. So I did a full teardown of the machine (boiler and group head) and gave it a full clean and check. Back together and same issue persists. I turned the machine on, left to heat up for a minute, then switched on the coffee switch. Pump *sounds* like it's working properly, but still no water making it out of the brew head. If I take the brew head off and remove the spring/rubber valve mechanism from middle of the group head then hot water flows through (about 100ml in 10s) when I switch the coffee switch. Put the spring/valve back in and, again, no water comes through. Could it be a faulty pump? I think the flow rate without the valve in seems OK, but maybe there needs to be more pressure to push the valve open (these 'Coffee" machines don't have a solenoid/switch). Everything is definitely clean and free of any major scale. Any help would be much appreciated to try and resurrect the beloved machine!

Is anyone aware if the SJ has an overheating cutout on it?