Hi All,
I would like some advice on my Gaggia as it's leaking water from what I think is the water tank. It comes out of the machine (turned on or off) from the back, underneath. I can't leave the water tank with water in it else it ends up all over the place. It still performs fine, just that I have to mop up all the time, so I've stopped using it. I've always used filtered water by the way.
If you look into the water tank housing it has water in the bottom. If I pull out the water tank and just put it on the counter top it leaks from the right hand side valve. The valve is simple, a plastic rod with an o-ring and a spring. So I guess either the o-ring has shrunk (maybe, as my Gaggia is over 3 years old) or the spring has lost it's spring, so to speak, although it seems ok.
Is this valve supposed to leak (I doubt it but I thought I'd ask)?
Where can I get an o-ring that fits this valve and or spring?
Or am I barking up the wrong tree and it's something else?
I have descaled it recently.
I've scoured the internet sites, including the offical Gaggia one to no avail. Please help, I'm bereft without my coffee!!!
I would like some advice on my Gaggia as it's leaking water from what I think is the water tank. It comes out of the machine (turned on or off) from the back, underneath. I can't leave the water tank with water in it else it ends up all over the place. It still performs fine, just that I have to mop up all the time, so I've stopped using it. I've always used filtered water by the way.
If you look into the water tank housing it has water in the bottom. If I pull out the water tank and just put it on the counter top it leaks from the right hand side valve. The valve is simple, a plastic rod with an o-ring and a spring. So I guess either the o-ring has shrunk (maybe, as my Gaggia is over 3 years old) or the spring has lost it's spring, so to speak, although it seems ok.
Is this valve supposed to leak (I doubt it but I thought I'd ask)?
Where can I get an o-ring that fits this valve and or spring?
Or am I barking up the wrong tree and it's something else?
I have descaled it recently.
I've scoured the internet sites, including the offical Gaggia one to no avail. Please help, I'm bereft without my coffee!!!