Knock yourself out. Go for it. You will be quids in as you will not have to pay a heating engineers callout/ labout charge
You seem to have more faith in seller refurbed item (wonder what qualification he has to tinker and effect repairs) than someone who repairs boilers for a living.
Reading your post, looks like you do not even know what is wrong with your boiler!!
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