Not OP, but that’s awesome - waste not want not! I love “good enough” solutions that produce perfectly workable results like this. The rest that I use, to tamp my portafilter on, is my old phone case - it’s the perfect height!
Here’s the link to the tear down, if anyone is interested… specific to my question is the quote:
Now if you happen to have a rebuild kit laying around you can replace the points but I did not.
Refurbish E61 pressurestat?
So grateful to have found this community, thanks to everyone who participates!
I’ve had to replace the pressurestat in my Astoria Rapallo every couple years, because the contacts get very pitted and disfigured. Everything else is probably fine, and it seems nuts to me to have to buy a whole new one, for the sake of a couple small strips of metal.
I’d love to just replace those contacts; does anyone have experience with that? I did a bunch of googling and couldn’t come up with anything except a teardown-and-clean where the poster says “you can replace them if you have a refurb kit”. But it’s an old post and searching for “pressurestat refurb kit” hasn’t yielded me any good results.
Any advice appreciated, and thanks for reading. Here’s hoping that whatever you’re brewing or pouring this weekend is delicious!