Things have been running hot on the blogs recently with Richard writing exciting a couple of posts on my tennis club and Robert discovering, and using properly, new words like 'succinct' in a comment of praise (for some reason) of the second post:
Last week the machine stopped working and no coffee at all came out of the spigot. Bummer! What to do? After doing all of the things that blokes do short of asking someone I looked up the instruction book, which. for the Italian Espresso Vita coffee maker, is a 40 page, well written and detailed booklet.
It's not one of those flimsy, fold-out and incomprehensible leaflets that come with Asian and IKEA-type goods. I went to the 'trouble-shooting' section where there was a solution to no coffee coming out of the spigot. It said that the filter basket could be blocked and can be cleared using the supplied cleaning pin. "What cleaning pin?" I asked myself before reading on:
"The cleaning pin is located behind the water reservoir and drip tray. It has two pins at either end. One is the the thinner and shorter of the two and is for cleaning out the hole in the filter basket. Insert the cleaning pin into the single hole in the base of the filter."
I looked inside the machine and sure enough there it was safely stored in its own little niche behind the water reservoir. Bloody clever Italians. They, like the Germans aren't very good at winning world wars but they are damned good designers.
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| The clening pin in its niche at the back. |
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| The cleaning pin |
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| The filter basket |
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| The hole at back of the filter basket that was blocked. |
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| The 'group head' that holds the filter basket |
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| How it looks cleaned and reassembled. |
Well you'll be pleased to know that the cleaning tool worked and the flow of coffee is back to what it was when I first bought the machine - "Pisciare come uno nuovo" the instruction manual said whatever that means.
6 comments:
"To pee like new."
Another popular post!!!!!!
Well, not really.
I had a psychopath working for me years ago. She was a thoroughly nasty and unempathetic piece of work. We had to arrange anger management courses for her.
In correspondence she used to use unnecessary extra exclamation marks too.
We just got home from town having been out to dinner with Mike and Joanne who are staying the night in Whangarei having visited the excellent Hundertwasser art centre and museum.
Mike and Joanne are good - they haven't stooped yet to overusing punctuation marks.
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