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The answers to this question helped me and I thought a picture of the switch near the ball would help. I am pointing to the black switch with a pen in the photo. 3 screws and you can get too it. In the photo you can see the cover removed after the screws are taken out. Also mine looks slightly different as the wheels that hold it upright when stored broke so I just took them off.

As oldturkey03 said I would suspect the fuse first. Mine too was not powering up and when it did it would not recognizing the tray being in place. I took it apart looked for any easy electronic problems: fuse, burnt areas indicating over heating or failed electrical components / short, loose electrical connections etc. Never found what the exact problem was but something may have been loose because after doing the above and putting it back together it worked:)

Thank you JC Gidley, removed the mention of down from the last point

There is a black plastic band around the front glass. So stick the razor between the metal back and outside of the black plastic that is around the front glass. If you look closely at the first picture you can see the black plastic strip outside of the front glass. If you stick it between the black plastic and screen you could leave the mid frame in the metal case and only lift up the the glass and screen.

I had the tray missing error too. I never found the specific cause but taking it partially apart and looking for loose connections, electrical burns, dirt etc and then reassembling it did work. Error 8 seems to be “brew group” failure to home but I am not familiar with 16. Sorry I don’t have a better answer. There are lots of great youtube guides too. https://youtu.be/Pxad75B2WLQ

Hi Mark,

you can try pulling it off the machine (pull straight down), then if you hold the small pointed end when turning the other end it will unscrew apart, I think there are five pieces ( outer metal sleeve, inner metal sleeve threaded at the bottom end, small metal nozzle that screws on the inner metal sleeve and then two black rubber pieces that may or may not come off for you) after you have it all apart you can soak it, scrub it and or use a needle to poke out the center of the nozzle. Or you might find just using a needle solves it. Hope this helps

no experience but if I felt gutsy enough I would disassemble the water path and flush it out but then you might get leaks and or need to replace some of the parts. At the very least I would take off the panels look at the lines and see how difficult disassembly / reassembly might be then weigh that vs sending it to Capresso.

or that could be true:)

Adele sorry to hear about your trouble. I doubt the manufacturer sells those kind of parts. I assume you have tried removing power from it for a while then plugging it back it. I would recommend contacting http://www.capresso.com/contact.shtml

I have had good luck with talking to them. Also my friend sent his in for refurbishment by Capresso (~$250) and he said it came back like new:) If mine ever dies I plan on doing that. Also you could try taking it apart and looking for anything out of sorts. Good luck

Sorry Troy just saw your comment, (I guess I missed the email from ifixit about it?) My advice would be to remove as much as you can with it still being functional and then maybe you could see what the problem is as it runs? Our is still working great but a friend of mine, who I made this guide for originally did recently send his back to the manufacturer and for $250 (including shipping) it came back like new. I have not seen it since but I gather they replaced all the wearing parts, cleaned and inspected it. The problem he was having was an error code that he could not figure out.

Sorry to hear about your error unfortunately I don't know where that is nor have I seen that error. If had to guess i would say it would be behind that black shield shown in picture 13. If you feel up to it I would take it apart clean the unit and see if you can trace the water hosing and I would guess the thermal block would be just up stream before the water goes over the compressed coffee puck. Look for simple stuff like loose electrical connections, dirt etc. Also I have had some luck calling Capresso support.

http://www.capresso.com/contact.shtml

good luck please post what you find thank you