ranciloio S24

C-man

Well I bought it! $100 not working

now where do I start looking?

It does nothing, but looks good! power light comes on and that's all
'they said it was working last time they used it during Christmas ( holiday house)

It is like some Safety switch is tripped somewhere maybe from low water level?

I can't find any switch, looks well made inside.

FreshCoffee2

....and you fell for the old "...they said it was working last time they used it..." Well, cant go wrong at the price regardless. If its not functioning there will be an electri-kill "inconvenience" in it somewhere meaning, someone let all the smoke out of the wiring. I'll give ya 50 for it and will have the hole in the wiring plugged pronto! Well done.

derrilex

Love that last pic C-man. Looks like its got a belt drive :rofl:

C-man

According to the internet the reset breaker is on the left side of the boiler but the only thing there is that little brown circle thing in the 3rd from the last photo with a + in it what is that?

Koffee_Kosmo

Well done mate I am glad you picked up this wonderful machine for a $100 KK

Brett_H

Holy wow! $100?? Where do you guys get these bargains?

Lacehim

They wanted $500, but I told C-man to offer $100 or walk away. Lucky for him they couldn't be bothered fixing it! That looks like a pretty clean machine, but it was from a holiday unit, so probably hasn't had the best of care cleaning wise.

Koffee_Kosmo

I believe that the repair costs will fall way short of the original asking price Again - it's a great buy KK

Lacehim

C-Man, Here's a parts manual, will be handy. http://www.partsguru.com/user/S20Parts[1].pdf Wiring diagram http://www.partsguru.com/user/Wiring%20diagrams%20BrainColorCode[1].pdf It's electrical, so don't go pulling it apart to "restore" it, just find the fault, get it checked out and use it. 🙂

Seeya_Latte

Great pick up C-man and good luck with it Classic machine - a friend of ours has got one and he knows I'm always eyeing it off just in case he wants to upgrade but ill be waiting a while because they just keep on keeping on

Lacehim

Anger Management wrote:

Ya links are broken :-)

No there not! They used [] in their file names so stuffs up the HTML code for links, so you'll have to cut and paste old skool! 🙂 they are there, I took a looky. C-Mans in the building game, so might know a nice mates rates sparky to look it over.

Anger Management wrote:

PS. After your finished, drop it into me and I will have it fixed and set up to run correctly for FC in a few min...

So is that a serious offer to help AM? I know your busy though. 🙂 Mrs AM might kill ya for bring another stray home (coffee machine that is, no offence C-Man) C-Man, if you have a few $$ to throw at this, the quickest way might be to give it to these guys. http://www.govtec.com.au/ Even if they charge you a fee to look at it, it will be fixed and they will check it over properly. I've never used them, but they are THE sunshine coast repair guys.

Lacehim

Anger Management wrote:

The auto link is BROKEN... Not every one is old school Better to provide a full link such as " Manual can be found here "

Or the HTML designers didn't figure someone would use [] in their file names :🙂 I always forget about those tinyurl's. Coz I'm old skool dude! Either way, I'm sure C-Man has his plans.

C-man

Lacehim wrote:

They wanted $500, but I told C-man to offer $100 or walk away. Lucky for him they couldn't be bothered fixing it! That looks like a pretty clean machine, but it was from a holiday unit, so probably hasn't had the best of care cleaning wise.

Yeah, It was Lacehim that set the price! he hammered them down! thanks buddy!

C-man

I thought that was what these forums is all about, helping each other I am not going to do anything too stupid like shock myself, I already did the with the SB haha I will try a few simple things like resetting it as I am sure no one knew how to do it from where it came from. maybe manually refilling the boiler as it had not been used since Christmas when it was running good. My brother is a sparky too. Pretty cool looking machine, solid as a rock!

C-man

does this look like a vibe or Rotary pump? I think the boiler is empty.

Koffee_Kosmo

C-man wrote:

does this look like a vibe or Rotary pump? I think the boiler is empty.

That is a vibe pump A rotary pump is a little smaller than a car alternator if that helps with a visual perspective KK

C-man

Update, I found a wire touching a pipe when I was manually filling the boiler it had burnt the insulator off so I separated them. fired it up now have heat and pump and steam! and 1.2bar boiler pressure! yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I was praying for something simple

derrilex

Awesome - bargain of the year so far :thumb:

Lacehim

Nice. Bargain of the year 2013 I would say! 🙂 Just make sure it's well insulated again, and get your brother to look it over just to make sure it's 100% safe on the electrical side. FYI I can't believe how unprotected wires are in espresso machines. I put some end caps on my element on Monday, because the ends where metal, but all the electrical wiring is exposed to the heat, no insulation or anything. Now you need to clean it. Do you have any backflush detergent and a blind basket (basket with no holes)? If not get some and give it a good clean before you use it! It's going to be rather dirty I'm afraid. I doubt anyone ever though to clean it in it's last home! 🙁

C-man

I added photo of blue wire touching the pipe when I was manually filling the boiler with the steam arm connection off I noticed a burnt piece of wire shielding that made me look harder. I was a sparky for 2 years a long time ago. the thin pipe looks like a brown wire but it is a copper pipe.