Re: ISE10 1606W leak
Just a quick update if anyone else is having a problem with a leak around pump area.
I found a small pinhole in the rubber bellows hose that connects the main tank to the pump. Something sharp (probably an ear ring left in a pocket) had pierced the hose and over time the water had built up and overflowed.
Hole temporarily patched with a bike repair kit until new part arrives.
Opening up the machine I was really impressed with the sheer quality of the thing, and how easy it seems to work on. This is the first issue in 7 years (and that’s due to us not emptying pockets properly), and I’d fully expect to get another few years out of it at least. And we use it a lot – once or twice a day, every day.
Hopefully parts will continue to be available for a while yet: this seems to be a real throwback machine in terms of quality and fixability, with nothing else out there really that comes close. When you look inside you can really see what the ISE product vision was all about, even though the business model wasn’t quite as good as the product.
If you’ve got one and its playing up, do think about repair before binning it.