I noticed the last few days when I brew a 16oz on the clover there seems to be an "over-flow ring" around the puck... anyone know what the deal is with this?  Is it a screen/filtering issue?

I was thinking maybe not all of the water was getting pulled out into the cup, as it looked an ounce or two short in the end.  Another thing mentioned was stirring method, but I've been using a clover for several years now and i don't think my stirring technique has changed in the last few  days.

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When we had an onset of mal-formed pucks, it was the first sign that the brew bottom assembly had started to crack. It's the big plastic piece at the bottom of the chamber, below the screen. It fails with a series of hairline cracks above the area where the solenoid attaches; we also found cracks around the center, where the piston comes through the bottom. As the cracks grow, the Clover no longer forms a proper vacuum and can't pull the coffee through the filter-- thus the pucks are either completely wet or else have a deformed ring around the outside. Eventually, you'll find that there's not enough pressure to push all of the coffee out with each cycle and you'll have coffee purged during the cleaning cycle. Finally, the cracks open up enough that you'll run a brew cycle and have coffee running out the bottom of the machine.

We've found that the replacement brew bottom has been unavailable as a replacement part for months, so we had our own designed and milled. Over on coffeed, someone from Trabant just said that the part is back in production from Starbucks, but I can't get any verification on it yet. As of last friday I had not heard that the part was available from either of the Clover parts distributors. Here's a flickr set about our own solution:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/daseindesign/sets/72157623961720894/
thanks anthony - i'll check it out today. I haven't noticed any coffee during the cleaning cycle but i'll keep an eye on it -

Anthony Rue said:
When we had an onset of mal-formed pucks, it was the first sign that the brew bottom assembly had started to crack. It's the big plastic piece at the bottom of the chamber, below the screen. It fails with a series of hairline cracks above the area where the solenoid attaches; we also found cracks around the center, where the piston comes through the bottom. As the cracks grow, the Clover no longer forms a proper vacuum and can't pull the coffee through the filter-- thus the pucks are either completely wet or else have a deformed ring around the outside. Eventually, you'll find that there's not enough pressure to push all of the coffee out with each cycle and you'll have coffee purged during the cleaning cycle. Finally, the cracks open up enough that you'll run a brew cycle and have coffee running out the bottom of the machine.

We've found that the replacement brew bottom has been unavailable as a replacement part for months, so we had our own designed and milled. Over on coffeed, someone from Trabant just said that the part is back in production from Starbucks, but I can't get any verification on it yet. As of last friday I had not heard that the part was available from either of the Clover parts distributors. Here's a flickr set about our own solution:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/daseindesign/sets/72157623961720894/

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