Hi, I'm Pedro from Coffee Parts.
And today we're upgrading the legendary E61 group head.
One of the simplest and easiest upgrade you can do to machine at home is changing
the group head seal and shower, screen difference between your machine would
have come with the rubber gasket and the upgraded cafe that seals are Silicon,
which are a lot nicer, softer feel.
And they last longer, and from the shower screen to control
and build quality of the shower.
So you're like the IMS really ups that flow control.
Yeah, it's something very simple and easy to do.
Most people wait for a service to update machine, but sometimes people
just want it done straight out.
The box.
What we've got here is basically the Cafelat group head seal, your
and an IMS shower screen, and now different seals have different.
And that's just a visual thing, but what they really are is a different sizes.
So from factory your machine would have had an 8mm seal.
If you've got an E61 head that as you use the portafilter and you rub the lugs
in and out, in and out, you wear away at the metal and eventually you have
to go thicker seal or paper spacer.
So companies like Cafelat that do make seals in 8mm and 8.5mm.
And if you do need to go further in time, you can just add a paper space,
which adds half a mm on top of that.
So today what we're basically going to be doing is removing the factory
group head seal, and a shower screen and replacing it with these two.
So before we get into.
Just want to show you what a used seal typically looks like when the shades
come in for a service, basically after a few months, this is what many shower
screens and seals and look like.
Especially for machines that don't get back flushed regularly.
Now really is something you want to be, not only keeping the machine clean,
but changing the group head seal in the shower screen every six to 12 months.
we are changing a group, head, seal commercial.
You've got a lot more room domestic machines.
It's sometimes easier to actually remove the trip tray to kind of
buy you a little bit more space.
And obviously remove the Portafilter.
Once you've got 'em out, you want to use a picker, but you could use, I
a flat head screwdriver, but anything else that you can get in there and pry that seal out.
So once a seal comes out, outcomes, the shower screen.
Now bear in mind, this is a new machine.
So it came out very easy.
When they're a bit older, they become brittle and quite hard to get.
Now I like to, if you look at the group heads seal, it's got a bit of
a chamfer or a bit of an edge there and completely flat on the bottom.
The flat bit goes down and the edge actually goes up towards that shower
screen because it's got an edge there.
So I like to put them in
A then on little trick.
I like doing is on the Porterfilter is actually removing the basket
just to once again, get a bit more clearance in a group head.
And I'm pushing these in good my fingers, as far as I can
then using the portafilter to do the rest of the job, even
if it's at the wrong angle
and then bring the basket back into that Portafilter.
I can, and there you go.
The seal is done.
so the only tool we'll need to change the grip at seal is effectively a group.
O-Ring picker, you could really use anything.
He can't try to seal out like a Flathead screwdriver, or just
anything you have lying around.
And it's good to have food grade grease.
It just helps protect the seal.
So that down the track, it's not as stuck to the group head.
It gets in age.
This makes life a little bit.
And it really the only two things you need, but effectively you could
do a, with a Flathead screwdriver.
Thank you for watching this video on updating E61 group head.
Hopefully this allows you to get that little bit extra out of your machine.
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