- Built-in espresso/coffee system
- Built-in bean grinder
- Internal water tank (no plumbing needed)
- Steam wand, frother, and hot water tap
The Dacor CM24T-1 is a discontinued / legacy 24-inch built-in tank-fed automatic coffee system — no longer in production, but we still service it. The CM24T-1 is Dacor's 24-inch built-in tank-fed automatic coffee system. Dacor did not market the CM24T-1's platform under one of its named design collections in the sources behind this page, so no collection claim is made for it here. The features that set the CM24T-1 apart on paper are Built-in espresso/coffee system; Built-in bean grinder; Internal water tank (no plumbing needed); Steam wand, frother, and hot water tap. One part of the CM24T-1's model number is reliably decodable: the digits straight after the prefix letters (24) give the nominal size in inches, which is consistent across Dacor's current SKUs — Dacor has never published a full legend for the rest of the string, so nothing past that and the LAP/RAP hinge letters should be treated as confirmed. Dacor has not published a confirmed rating-plate location for a unit like the CM24T-1, so look along a door edge, the door frame, or an interior wall first, and photograph the plate once it turns up rather than guess at a spot. What typically fails on a platform like the CM24T-1 is the brew-group heater, a flow meter that has stopped reporting water flow accurately, or the steam-wand solenoid valve. On a built-in coffee machine like the CM24T-1, descaling neglect is the single biggest contributor to boiler and flow-meter failures, ahead of any single component simply wearing out. The parts that go first on a built-in coffee system like the CM24T-1 are the boiler/brew-group heating element, the flow meter that measures water passing through, and the internal grinder motor. Diagnosing the CM24T-1 starts with checking the flow meter and the brew-group heater directly, since descaling neglect affects both and mimics a bigger electrical problem. The CM24T-1 never shows an alphanumeric error code at all — Dacor's coffee system communicates in full-sentence messages instead, confirmed directly from the Automatic Coffee System Use and Care Manual: "Machine Ready - Drawer Out," "System Off - Front Panel Open," "Please Milk Clean," "Clean Group," a named "[Subsystem] Group Error," "Timeout Filling Up Broiler," "Flow Meter Error," "Error - Coffee Temperature" / "Error - Steam Temperature," and "Too Much Coffee." Some of these are routine reminders rather than problems — the milk-clean and group-clean messages appear on a schedule, not because anything has broken. As a Legacy Dacor product, the CM24T-1 predates the September 2016 Samsung acquisition and runs on Dacor's own proprietary control architecture rather than anything Samsung-derived. Behind the CM24T-1 is a company founded in 1965 in Pasadena, California — the name is short for Distinctive Appliances, Incorporated — that remained family-run for three generations before Samsung Electronics America's acquisition closed in September 2016. The CM24T-1's age, generation, and control platform all matter more to a correct repair than its collection name or finish; that is the single idea this page keeps coming back to.
The CM24T-1 shows messages rather than codes, and its platform has no current replacement in Dacor's range. The CM24T-1 has company: the rest of the line-up is in the model directory, and the problems it shares with them are covered in our repair guides. Specifications: www.dacor.com.
