ok I found one of these on the side of the road which is arguably where it belongs but it looks like its hardly ever been used so I thought I'd give it a go
got it home and filled the water tank, and switched it on
the pump engages and primes the thermocouple but there it ends - the heating light does NOT come on and in standby or milk frothing mode the machine runs through a non stop and quite loud series of clicks at regular one second intervals
the pumps obviously working and in steam mode cold water will dispense from the steam wand
but I can get any water to run from the group head and the thermocouple fails to engage as there's no hot water at all
ideas peoples?