Went to clean my coffee maker and wanted to clean it through and removed the screw under the slide out draw on the left. When I did a spring popped out and I don't know which way it goes back. Has something to do with the button on the side. Please advise.

These are not easy to work on, find a service agent that has done them before and get a quote for the repair, they can be very expensive. If the slide above the debris container on the side is stuck then that means the piston is down, if it will not pop up I would suspect it needs a new distributor but there are very many things in one of those that could also be unwell.

Yes, you place the spring into the tube at the back. When you replace the basket holder, make certain you reach in behind the holder and guide the spring into the proper place on the holder. (Otherwise the spring will be forced to a permanent bend and not work as well. Can't find replacements for this spring on Cuisinart's website).

As for why it pops out better now, when you removed the basket holder and cleaned it, you also cleaned the plastic guides on each side. In normal use, these guides acculuminate coffee and tend to get sticky or gummy. When the door pops open, the sticky rails grab the guides and slow the sliding action.

Cleaning them restores the clean guide rails to slide open on. (Next time you clean the basket holder, remember to reach in and wipe out all the inner parts, including the plastic rails that the basket holder slides out on. These get coated with coffee as well. And the place around where the grind basket fits over the ground basket. This area always gets sticky with old coffee. Just use a wet paper towel and clean everything. (But remember to be careful when you reinstall the basket holder so that the spring fits back properly.

Remove the 2 allen wrench screws under the screw and screen, this will drop the diffuser, careful do not loose spring and plastic ball that is in there. Then run machine without parts in place to check if water goes through. If yes replace parts minus screen and screw and test, it taht works insert screen and screw and test.

Hello, Thank You for using FixYa. I will be helping you today.First remove the door that covers the icemaker it just pops off be careful it breaks easy. next there is one screw under the icemaker to the right side remove that screw.Now the piece that screw went through pops off.Now if you look under the ice maker,the rails that it slides into there are plastic clips you have to push up and slide the whole icemaker toward you. Thats it.
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There is a little cover over a spring. The loops of the spring go inside the screw that holds the cover. The spring ends are against the wall and a small pin connected to the button on the side. Keeps the button locked. Cleaning out dried coffee in the are may help and pam spray may keep it from sticking.

Remove the screw and shower screen under the brew head, make sure screen is clean, try running the head to see if water flows, if no water remove allen wrench screws, and check spring and valve seat, DO NOT LOSE SPRING AND VALVE. Try running head, if water does not flow, reassemble and descale machine.

No, no... He has a Saeco pressurized portafilter which has a valve that will not allow coffee through when the portafilter handle is pushed all the way to the right. His handle is locking in the rightmost position; this is not a grounds problem.

mjtourig: Can you not just nudge the handle to the left before you pull a shot to unlock it? If it is too clogged for that, try taking your portafilter apart to clean it. You'll have to remove the 3 screws on the bottom, and be very careful the entire time that you do not lose any of the parts (in particular, there is a spring under one of the screws that will want to pop out, and a tiny white plastic thing under that spring...). Good luck!

I think the main problem with this machine is that the grounds fly all over inside when grinding and combine with the steam and hot water and eventually gum up the moving parts. This causes the latch for the filter basket to lose its grip sometimes and the door pops open during the brewing cycle...I was trying to take apart the slides to clean them out and made the mistake of removing the small screw underneath the left slide. Then the spring popped out and it took about an hour to get it back together, very frustrating. I ended up bending one end of the spring into a slight hook with a needle nose pliers so it would catch better on the "nub" that is connected to the side button. The best way I figured out to clean the slides so far is to blast them out with compressed air periodically for preventative maintenance. I use one of those cans normally used to dust off electronics and insert the straw into the slides.

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Do you have any type number on the machine?

I think I just pulled off an effective fix on mine... went from leaking all over the counter to no leaks in the last three pots.. not sure if we have the same model.. in fact I don't even know what model I have... it's a plain white unit with a singe button. Anyway, here's what I did:

• Remove the bucket
• Turn bucket over
• On my unit, the bucket itself is mounted inside of the white outer trim, and the assembly is held together by four recessed phillips screws. Remove those four screws and seperate the bucket from the outer shell.
• Reach into the bucket and pull the rubber gasket seal from the dispenser.
• On the bottom of the bucket, raise the dispenser lever until the spring pops out.
• Stretch the spring a bit.. not too much, you want to be able to put it back!
• Clean the gasket seal and the gasket seating surface.
• Put it all back together :)

The stretched spring causes the gasket to seal more tightly than it did before, and in my case, stopped the leaks.