Almost New Again.

Well, the vacuum breaker valve has been replaced, but my machine is acting kinda strange. Initially it struggled to bring up the temperature with the lifeless steam (although I increased the boiler pressure setting). After a few false starts, it seems to go back to its old self slowly but surely, with 1.3 bar reading on the pressure gauge, up from 1.1 bar (I can't quantify the increase, but it sounds good to me). I’ll have to wait and see if the machine is truly ready, and I’ll get to play around with the extra steaming power...