It was very dirty and very neglected, no original driptray, leaking water, ripped HX-tube etc etc.
The next couple of days we completely restored the machine, replacing all gaskets and rubbers, cleaning and descaling everything. Fixed the HX-pipe in the boiler (was ripped open so boiler always overfilled). Had to make a boiler gasket from teflon.
And while we were at it I decided not to use the old outer casing (which is dead-ugly in my opinion) and we had to do some casemodding.
Replaced the rather flimsy internat hto water and steam taps for external sturdy Astoria taps. Also fixed a build-in manometer in the frontpanel.
Last things to do were making the stainless steel cover and cup warmer tray.
Well, now it's finished and I made some very nice espressi with it... definitely a keeper. Unfortunately there is still one part defective... the p-stat. I have to set it anew each time I heat the machine from cold. As long as it's on it will be ok and stay within the set margins. If the machine has been off and cooled down the p-stat suddenly is set at 2.2 bar.... which of course means the safety valve on the boiler kicks in resulting is a sh1tload of steam and water in the kitchen.
Am thinking of PIDing the machine, see post in members clubroom.
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I would like to thank Youri for helping me out... couldn't have done it without him...