u/vangokart

I'm hoping you all can help. This happened this week, luckily I have a good sense of smell. My Silvia V3 is at least 16yrs old, give or take. Looks like some resistance has built up and fried the boiler connections. (one is burnt and the other lightly toasted) Smelled pretty bad as you can imagine. I assume it's the age and wear on the boiler elements that caused this.

I've recently upgraded the water pump, replaced the OPV, and the steam and hot water thermostats. Do I just buy a new machine? (might be out of my budget right now) or replace the boiler? If I replace the boiler, I don't think the overheating of the connection should happen again if I replace the boiler, but any insight would be helpful . Thanks.