SPACEMAN · ALAMO
Service · All Spaceman ModelsSpaceman Frozen Beverage Machine Repair · Alamo, CA
Spaceman machine service in Alamo, fifteen minutes from our San Ramon shop
- $75 diagnostic (waived with repair)
- Same or next-day best effort
- CSLB #1136642
Spaceman in Alamo
Spaceman commercial service.
Alamo is our backyard. There is no big commercial strip here, just Alamo Plaza and a handful of cafes along Danville Boulevard, plus country club kitchens and estate homes off Stone Valley Road. The Spaceman units we see in Alamo split two ways: a frozen beverage barrel behind a plaza counter, and commercial-style soft serve machines that owners put in pool houses and outdoor kitchens for the summer.
The estate installs are the interesting calls. A Spaceman 6210 countertop unit in a pool cabana sits idle from October to May, and idle time kills these machines differently than heavy use does. Seals dry out, mix residue nobody flushed in September turns to concrete in the lines, and the first party of June ends with a stalled auger. I tell Alamo owners to book a pre-season check in May, because that visit is cheaper than a June emergency.
We are based in San Ramon, licensed under CSLB #1136642, and I am EPA 608 Universal certified for the refrigerant side. The $75 diagnostic is waived with repair, quotes come in writing, and we cover Alamo 7 days a week.
Common repairs we do
What we close on the truck.
- First run of the season produces nothing but cold soup. A unit that sat all winter often has a partially restricted cap tube or a charge that leaked down through a fitting that loosened with temperature swings. I test the sealed system properly instead of guessing, because on a seasonal machine a wrong guess wastes the one weekend you wanted it working.
- Consistency control drifts, product goes from icy to runny. Spaceman units read barrel torque to decide when to run the compressor. When the sensing goes out of calibration the product swings between over-frozen and melted. I verify the torque reading against actual product texture and recalibrate, and if the control board itself is failing I quote the board in writing first.
- Loud knocking from the drive side. Knocking under load usually means a worn drive coupling or gearbox bearings starting to go. On a pool house machine that only runs weekends, owners live with the noise for a season and then the gearbox fails on a holiday. Catching it early turns a major repair into a coupling swap.
Models we service
Spaceman product lines.
- Frozen-beverage and soft-serve machines
Pricing and warranty
What it costs. What we stand behind.
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$75
Diagnostic visit. Waived when you book the repair with us.
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Written
90 days on consumables, 1 year on major parts, 2 years on sealed-system rebuilds. Quoted in writing before work starts.
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CSLB
#1136642. Bonded and insured. We file warranty paperwork when applicable.
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FAQ
Spaceman in Alamo questions, answered.
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How close are you to Alamo, really?
Very close. San Ramon to Alamo is 10 to 15 minutes straight up the 680 corridor. Danville sits between us, and we run Walnut Creek and Lafayette on the same axis, so Alamo calls often get same-day service, sometimes same-morning. -
Do you service residential soft serve and slush machines, not just store units?
Yes. A Spaceman in a pool house is the same machine as one in a shop, with the same compressor, auger, and seals. The difference is usage pattern, so I adjust the maintenance advice for a machine that sleeps half the year. -
What warranty comes with a repair?
Repairs carry a 1 year warranty on our work. You also get the quote in writing before I open the machine up beyond the diagnostic, so you can decide with real numbers whether to repair or replace an older unit.
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