Thought I would stick up my espresso machine project, not really doing modifications more poking around it till it works properly again ;D still some of you might find it interesting 
Spotted it mis-described on e-bay with a low buy it now price and it was within a sensible distance
From those pictures and a poor description I worked out what it was and decided to take a chance on it.
It is a La San Marco 95-31 2 group. These normally retail new around £3500 plus VAT. This particular example is 6 and a half years old , it apparently came out of a cafe that closed and then spent a couple of years sitting in a garage.
When I picked it up it was obvious that it hadn't had a hard life but it hadn't been cleaned down the last time it was used
So I gave it a serious clean down in the middle of the kitchen floor 
it was full of saw dust and splattered with paint probably from when it was sitting in a garage.
The 5 core power cable worried me that I might have bought a 3 phase machine but taking a side panel off revealed a wiring diagram showing how to wire it for single phase.
So next I plumbed it in to my homes water supply, plugged it, switched it on and stood back. No fuses blew - good, pump sized - bad, half an hour of switching on and off unsized the pump - good, boiler heats up - good, boiler reaches correct pressure and stops heating - good, steam wands work - good, hot water works - good, group heads don't work - jolly pain in the backside
So now I have started to strip it down to find out what is up with it. I will be descaling it all - it might have a blockage caused by scale - and servicing it - group head gaskets on commercial espresso machines should be replaced at least every couple of years.
The strip down so far
Pressure vessel with lots of plumbing connections
Spotted it mis-described on e-bay with a low buy it now price and it was within a sensible distance
From those pictures and a poor description I worked out what it was and decided to take a chance on it.
It is a La San Marco 95-31 2 group. These normally retail new around £3500 plus VAT. This particular example is 6 and a half years old , it apparently came out of a cafe that closed and then spent a couple of years sitting in a garage.
When I picked it up it was obvious that it hadn't had a hard life but it hadn't been cleaned down the last time it was used
So I gave it a serious clean down in the middle of the kitchen floor 
it was full of saw dust and splattered with paint probably from when it was sitting in a garage.The 5 core power cable worried me that I might have bought a 3 phase machine but taking a side panel off revealed a wiring diagram showing how to wire it for single phase.
So next I plumbed it in to my homes water supply, plugged it, switched it on and stood back. No fuses blew - good, pump sized - bad, half an hour of switching on and off unsized the pump - good, boiler heats up - good, boiler reaches correct pressure and stops heating - good, steam wands work - good, hot water works - good, group heads don't work - jolly pain in the backside
So now I have started to strip it down to find out what is up with it. I will be descaling it all - it might have a blockage caused by scale - and servicing it - group head gaskets on commercial espresso machines should be replaced at least every couple of years.
The strip down so far
Pressure vessel with lots of plumbing connections
(in a vaguely Ace Cafe style)
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