DariBer Senior Member Joined: 4 Oct 2012 Posts: 12 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Expertise: Just starting
Espresso: ECM Giotto (2005)' Gaggia... Grinder: mahlköning Vario
Posted Wed Oct 24, 2012, 3:24pm Subject: how to fill the Vibiemme Domobar super water tank
I'm about to buy an used Vibiemme Domobar Super espresso machine.
But I have one question. I don't have the possability to connect water from the tap to the machine so I need a tank in the machine.
When I ask the seller in mail if it has a tank he tells me that there is a tank on 2.7 liter and that the tank fills with water by a bowl beside the machine and the machine sucks the water to the tank. My question is, is this true, for me it sounds like the machine sucks the water to the boiler and not to the tank as I read that the boiler is 2.7liter and that the tanks are usualy 4l.
Could some one be kind and awnser me how do I fill a Domobar Super with water in the tank?
stefano65 Senior Member Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 1,337 Location: Eugene OR Expertise: Professional
Espresso: Vibiemme,Elektra, Grinder: Vario,Macap, Vac Pot: not Drip: not Roaster: not
Posted Wed Oct 24, 2012, 3:30pm Subject: Re: how to fill the Vibiemme Domobar super water tank
a NORMAL vbm has a in the back of the machine which you can fill up with a pitcher, water bottle, a water line directly with a little cock valve etc etc then the boiler get filled from the water reservoir with the autofill system
if your seller has a version of the VBM made after the year 2010 with a full size motor and pump (versus the vibe pump like the model mention above) then you can choose between a dirct connect to the water line or to use the water reservoir as the model above
DariBer Senior Member Joined: 4 Oct 2012 Posts: 12 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Expertise: Just starting
Espresso: ECM Giotto (2005)' Gaggia... Grinder: mahlköning Vario
Posted Wed Oct 24, 2012, 3:36pm Subject: Re: how to fill the Vibiemme Domobar super water tank
are there any Domobar Super that doesn't have ay water tank at all, that you need to connect directly to the water or does alla Domobar Super contain a water tank?
DariBer Senior Member Joined: 4 Oct 2012 Posts: 12 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Expertise: Just starting
Espresso: ECM Giotto (2005)' Gaggia... Grinder: mahlköning Vario
Posted Wed Oct 24, 2012, 4:20pm Subject: Re: how to fill the Vibiemme Domobar super water tank
stefano65 Said:
a NORMAL vbm has a in the back of the machine which you can fill up with a pitcher, water bottle, a water line directly with a little cock valve etc etc then the boiler get filled from the water reservoir with the autofill system
if your seller has a version of the VBM made after the year 2010 with a full size motor and pump (versus the vibe pump like the model mention above) then you can choose between a dirct connect to the water line or to use the water reservoir as the model above
Posted Wed Oct 24, 2012, 5:42pm Subject: Re: how to fill the Vibiemme Domobar super water tank
From your description, it sounds like it is a plumb-in only machine. There would be no reason to have a bowl externally located for a reservoir machine. The "tank" sounds like the boiler. You need one with a "reservoir."
Now, you can run the plumb model using an external bottle and an on-demand pump like that which are used in "caravans" (RV's here). Google "Flo-jet pump." You want something like this.
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