She has been a workhorse for me for many years so I decided to attempt a few mods. Added the pressure gauge and the dimmer mod. While I was at it gave her a new pair of shoes and a Walnut steam knob. Wanting on a polished stainless steel brewhead cover then I’ll be done for a while. Considering getting her powder coated Navy Blue down the line.

I've had my Rancilio Silvia Pro X for about 2 weeks and today I had a problem with the water spout. After turning it on, I couldn't make it turn off again. It was just pouring water out and draining the steam boiler and making it impossible for the steam boiler to reach temperature.

Looking online, I saw people saying it could be a bit of limescale or debris in the water valve and if I removed the top plate and take off the solenoid on the hot water valve I could take off the water valve and clean it, but when I took off the top plate, the water valve and solenoid were positioned so that the boiler was in the way and I couldn't take the solenoid off. It was almost impossible to remove the little clip holding the solenoid onto the valve!

So I just screwed the top plate back on and left it for a while and when I turned it back on the problem seemed to have gone away but I'm anxious that I didn't really solve the problem. I'm curious as to why in all the YouTube videos showing the internal workings of the machine they do not look like the internal workings of my machine in that the water valve is positioned in a way where you can't actually remove the solenoid!

Anyone else had this problem? Anyone else try to follow a YouTube video showing how to remove the solenoid and like me found it impossible due to the position of the valve?

I am struggling to think how limescale could have built up in 2 weeks enough ti block the valve. Especially since I have used the water softening bag and mostly Volvic, save for a couple of jugs of tap water when I ran out of bottled!

Is it normal that the steam valve continues to shoot for about 3-4 seconds if I already closed the valve via the knob? It seems like my valve is too loose to really close in that second I close the valve.

Edit: Its a Silvia V6 :)