Leak - Heating Element

Do you have a leak coming from this area in your machine?

Then you can follow this guide to tighten the heating element nuts!

1. Turn off and unplug the machine.

2. Open the boiler cap, turn the machine upside down, and dump any remaining water from the boiler.

3. Turn the machine upright and remove the 4 screws to remove the piston assembly using the M3 hex key that came with your machine.

4. Turn the machine upside down and remove the 7 screws on the underside of the machine using the same M3 hex key. This allows for removing the base plate from the bottom of the machine.

5. You should now have access to the bottom of the boiler. You will need to remove the heating element power wires on top of the element by removing the 2 small nuts on very top of each post with a 7mm wrench. Then preferably with a long thin 17mm socket you can tighten the larger nuts on the bottom of the heating element posts.

6. You should see a painted line on the nuts showing their original alignment. You can use this as a reference to see how much you have tightened them afterwards.

7. Turn the nuts clockwise, tightening the nuts until you have tightened another quarter to half turn.

8. They should now show an alignment similar to this where the paint on the nut is now offset from the pain on the boiler.

9. Reversing all the disassembly steps, reassemble your machine, add water to the boiler and check for any leaks.