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  • Presumed Sold CMA/Astoria Rio 1 group ex-commercial machine

    I have a commercial single group machine for sale, with a complicated history. I'm in Sydney, in the Ryde area. This is a heavy unit so pickup/dropoff in striking distance of Sydney is the go here.

    I bought it while living in the US for a few years. It came from a cafe near Chicago that went under, and the previous owner just wanted to get rid of it. I had it at home for a few years in order to serve coffee to larger groups who came through our house regularly, as well as a daily driver.

    Since we brought a fair bit home with us from the US, the coffee machine came too, with a big transformer to run it on 240V. That worked out fine.

    Eventually, about 18 months ago, the heating element inside the boiler died. Instead of just replacing the element with a 110V part, I replaced all the relevant electrical parts with their 240V equivalents, so it now runs of a regular Australian household socket. So the included pic of the electrical details is for reference but no longer accurate re. electrical details. Water source is plumbed in, but the rotary pump is mounted inside so everything is self-contained.

    We're moving house shortly to a smaller place, and we no longer have the large groups of young adults in our place regularly to justify having a machine with an enormous boiler in it. But if you would like a machine to tinker with, or serve lots of coffee to people with, or have more steam power than you can think of, or just to have and use for yourself, this works out great.

    It's in reasonable condition. Some of the chrome is a bid sad around the group. A little bit of rust on the internal frame, well away from anything that's of any great importance (and well away from what you can see). Seals and gaskets replaced fairly regularly in the time I've had it, and descaling done reasonably often. The hot water wand does have some flaking chrome that will end up in the cup, but I never use it so I haven't fixed that particular bit. Very easy to work on, and commercial parts can be very easily found here in Australia to fix or maintain anything you need.

    But overall it works great. Pulls good shots, steams great milk.

    The only indication on a reasonable price I've ever had for this was a conversation with a bloke in a cafe in the US, where they also sourced and reconditioned machines for homes and offices. Telling him about my machine he said, "Oh, they're worth about $1500 (USD) when they're not working before we get them running."

    Given that it is indeed running, but has a somewhat complicated history and the fact that I would like to offload it, I reckon around the $1000 mark sounds fair for this, but I'm open to guiding from others. Includes 3 group handles and a handful of accessories, spare gaskets/seals, etc.

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