Oh no you're not a pain, its a pleasure if I can help.
From your description I fear, we have a bigger issue...If there is no possibility to set the sensor through the opening, the machine has to be opened and the drive must be removed. The sensor is a simple and cheap microswitch. You can see it here:
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, the right-hand little white box. If you are lucky, it just can be pressed in again, hopefully there is not broken anything else. Use the guide for Siemens (which I already gave the link) to remove the drive. Here more pictures: [link|https://www.juraprofi.de/Melitta-Ersatzteile/Brueheinheit-und-Antrieb/Antrieb-A-047-optimiert-fuer-Melitta-Kaffeevollautomat::20727.html|Drive] and [link|https://www.juraprofi.de/Melitta-Ersatzteile/Ventile-und-Schalter/Mikroschalter-DX41-D41R-QGAC-fuer-Melitta-Kaffeevollautomat::11814.html|Microswitch Cherry DX41]. I hope you will find anybody to do the fix and wish you good luck - Greetings from Germany.
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I found a [link|https://youtu.be/rhGANOrfSJE?si=ZwYAE-hcJpCYXIRd|video]
Oh no you're not a pain, its a pleasure if I can help.
From your description I fear, we have a bigger issue...If there is no possibility to set the sensor through the opening, the machine has to be opened and the drive must be removed. The sensor is a simple and cheap microswitch. You can see it here:
[image|3552749]
, the right-hand little white box. If you are lucky, it just can be pressed in again, hopefully there is not broken anything else. Use the guide for Siemens (which I already gave the link) to remove the drive. Here more pictures: [link|https://www.juraprofi.de/Melitta-Ersatzteile/Brueheinheit-und-Antrieb/Antrieb-A-047-optimiert-fuer-Melitta-Kaffeevollautomat::20727.html|Drive] and [link|https://www.juraprofi.de/Melitta-Ersatzteile/Ventile-und-Schalter/Mikroschalter-DX41-D41R-QGAC-fuer-Melitta-Kaffeevollautomat::11814.html|Microswitch Cherry DX41]. I hope you will find anybody to do the fix and wish you good luck - Greetings from Germany.