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Tika - You need to bleed out any air in the system while the machine is warming up. Either leave the steam tap open as it warms up and close it when it starts gushing steam, or wait for the ready light to come on, then open the steam valve, close it when you get a good strong rush of steam and wait for the light to come on again.
What's happening is that trapped air in the system is making the pressurestat think the boiler is fully up to steam pressure (and therefore temperature) when it's actually compressed air opening the contacts on the pstat. This is known as false pressure.