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Dear God alive.
I have just run 13 sachets of Puly descaler through my 2003 Gaggia Classic.
I'm not convinced the ebay seller was entirely honest about the 'complete descale and clean' anyway but when I disassembled it to do my pre-use checks and fit the PID controller, the boiler was reasonably tidy inside so eh.
I've since abused the poor thing for the past 9 months by only descaling it once. My defence that I ran out of descaler and kept forgetting to order some more is a pretty poor one (I have been running Puly Cafe through it weekly, though, since I have tons of that!).
So now I've done that and flushed it through with a couple of tanks of clean water, it's a clean with the Puly Cafe and another flush through, a new BWT water filter and a run of the auto-tune on the PID, I get to start dialling in the beans I have. Hopefully I'm still pretty close on grind settings, temperature and pressure, because I'm a little low on beans.
Oddly, I'd never let my tools (hand or machine) get to this state.
I have just run 13 sachets of Puly descaler through my 2003 Gaggia Classic.
I'm not convinced the ebay seller was entirely honest about the 'complete descale and clean' anyway but when I disassembled it to do my pre-use checks and fit the PID controller, the boiler was reasonably tidy inside so eh.
I've since abused the poor thing for the past 9 months by only descaling it once. My defence that I ran out of descaler and kept forgetting to order some more is a pretty poor one (I have been running Puly Cafe through it weekly, though, since I have tons of that!).
So now I've done that and flushed it through with a couple of tanks of clean water, it's a clean with the Puly Cafe and another flush through, a new BWT water filter and a run of the auto-tune on the PID, I get to start dialling in the beans I have. Hopefully I'm still pretty close on grind settings, temperature and pressure, because I'm a little low on beans.
Oddly, I'd never let my tools (hand or machine) get to this state.