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Was tightening the boiler on my Europiccola after fitting a new gasket a few weeks back. Emptied the boiler, tightened it, popped the base & lid back on and went about my business. Went to make a coffee a few hours later and the fuse box went. Forgot to put any water in the boiler. Oh joy.
On the plus side, for the heating element, pressurestat pipe, thermostat, thermal paste & o-ring for the boiler it all came to about £80-90 (much less than the price inflation since I bought it 5 years ago).
Heating element is still functional (think I basically burned away the insulation around the heating element terminals, so it trips the fuse after it's been on for a few mins), so hopefully will be able to repair that at a later date.