Bialetti Moka Express 6-Cup Coffee Maker "cooks pot replacement filter" Questions

Cooks coffee pot is sold at JC Penney as part of the Home Collection After searching for the replacement basket on web took whole coffee maker back to jcp and they replaced the 12cup coffee maker with

...filter discs but it still didn't work, three new rubber gaskets all gave the same problem. But... then I thought about the one other replaceable part: the funnel cup. These are available to replace ...

...filter in my Bialetti 6-cup pot with genuine Bialetti parts. Now instead of gently flowing out of the center post, the espresso takes a long time to start brewing, and when it does, it forcefully ...