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I ended up completely taking her apart....when I got the boiler opened, I was horrified as to what I saw, I cannot believe I drank from there, totally gross. The heating element was fine, I found a burnt transister on the board. At that time I was pretty frustrated, since she was already apart...

well that was short lived... I made myself a pretty good latte early this morning,...now that the wife is finally out of bed, I was going to make her one as well,...noticed the outlet GFCI breaker was tripped. The second the X! touches the outlet, the breaker trips. Sounds like the heating...

Thanks, I am new to this,...and have not seen a manual for this machine. In order to descale and rinse,...I have been running the steam wand alot by fully opening the steam valve, then running the pump to flush water and get out the specs that are present. There is definitely not a very dry...

The machine does get plenty hot enough for steam, and the light does go on and off. Is it normal for the light to come back on during the steam process? after 2 days of descaling and rinsing, the brew mode is nice and clean, and the steam wand only occasionally has a few white specks floating in...

To be more presise, I steemed into a measuring cup until the steam ran out (maybe 20 seconds)..and ended up with almost a half cup of water.

One thing I forgot to ask... Is it normal to get a lot of water along with the steam when using the wand? it gets very hot, and lots of steam...but over about a 20 second period, there is enough water for a few big mouth fulls..if you were to drink it....which I refuse at the moment.

Thanks a bunch for all the info, I removed the mushroom shaped seal last night, it did have alot of build up,....I have done alot of flushing,...but will keep it up, and hopefully will get to the point where I see nothing floating around in the water coming out., I do believe the previous owners...

Just purchased a used Francis X1 1st gen, built in 2001. The machine just looked dirty, like it was stored for along time, the old lady I got it from said her kids used it, but was stored a while. I ran 2 bottles of Durgol Swiss Espresso Descaler,purchased on amazon with excellent...