20 Most Recent Jura Capresso C1500 Espresso & Coffee Maker Questions & Answers

Used to get the Service 8 with increasing frequency until it almost froze up. Luckily I figured out an easy solution and my 5 year old refurbished C1500 with over 4000 coffees runs like brand new. Here's how:
Take out the grounds tray and reach in to pull back the flap up above where the grounds fall. There is a piston and cylinder thingy behind the flap kind of like a car piston. Take a wad of wet paper towel and shove it up there to clean it out. Then use a dry towel to dry it. Now the secret solution: Take a can of spray pam and point it at the piston and cylinder with the flap pulled back. Give it a couple good shots. Now you just need to get the machine to work that in between the piston and cylinder walls by running the rinse cycle until it frees up. You may have to run it a few times then unplug and let it cool for a couple hours and run it again. The motor overheats if the piston is really stuck so you need to let it cool down. Apparently this is lubricated at the factory with a FDA approved food grease from Dow Corning that needs to be replenished but hey no one is going to die from a little vegetable oil. Some day if it even hints at happening again (It has been 3 months now) I know what to do. Cheers!

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Hi Alan Try Manual & Instruction Books On Line The Books & manuals are more than likely on the manufacturers site. They usually can be downloaded for currently available devices. Search their support area for your specific model of device. Try Google Search for a Manual or PDF File for the specific brand & model number. Also check these Sites: www.retrevo.com .... Manuals www.office.manualsonline.com

The "sensor" is most likely a micro-switch. When the tray is in it actuates the switch and closes a circuit indicating to the controller that the tray is in place. Sorry to tell you this but it will have to be disassembled to replace the switch if it has failed as the micro-switches are usually sealed items that are not normally cleaned.

If the drawer is stuck and cannot be put back in then put everything back except for the coffee grind bucket. That works for me. Press the power button to switch it off and then back on again and you can removed the drawer and put the bucket part back in again.

After making approximately 200 coffees, the internal brewing chamber and thebrewing unit must be cleaned (of coffee oils, etc.). The display will showCLEAN UNIT alternating with the regular message. This indicates that it is timeto run the tablet cleaning cycle

Have you tablet cleaned it?