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Then I found out the base was loose (not sure how, its been sat in the garage for the best part of a year) I fitted the lock ring last year when I first built it.
This has been a constantly occurring thing for me, can only assume it's the boiler spacer/gasket (https://espressocare.com/products/boiler-spacer-europiccola), that's compressed over time and therefore loosened a bit.
I've not been great about re-tightening it, and I can turn the boiler using the lever pretty easily. But it's not a leak-risk so I tend not to bother. Not helped by the process of tightening the boiler flange being a pain. If I had a proper little workshop I'd absolutely make one of those little grouphead mounts for a vice and use that. But alas that's not the case.
Though this sort of thing seems like overkill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKu0qmFurrA
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Made a bit of progress on my europiccola refresh/tart up
New element and pstat pipe chucked on and some wiring put together, fired up and got up to pressure, pstat cycles nicely.
Then I found out the base was loose (not sure how, its been sat in the garage for the best part of a year) I fitted the lock ring last year when I first built it.
This time I'm going bigger and better and using a breaker bar and a workmate to get some leverage into it so it should stay put this time round!
Then I can tidy up the wiring, fit the new wooden handles and hopefully pull some shots.
I should probably fit a resettable thermal fuse as well.