New Sticky ?

I did a post as no-one had answered two of the enquirers posts.
When I hit the submit I found Martin had posted so I withdrew and PM’ed the following to Martin.
I was rather embarrassed with my post however here goes what I sent to martin.

PM to Martin
I was asked to run a marathon, I said, “Piss off”.
They said come on, it’s for spastics and blind kids.
Then I thought, fuck it, I could win this.

Also the post I withdrew was:-

Unfortunately we can only advise you on what the fault may be.
To advise you how to replace the bearings puts us a risk of litigation
It causes us to assume your level of experience which off course we can’t do
In fact the word Assume is made up of the letters arranged thus
ASS-U-ME
For me to ASSUME your level of experience would definitely make an ASS of U and/or ME.
For me or any other engineer to instruct you would certainly cause us to wrongly estimate your skills.
There is no way we can judge your skills without overseeing you perform hundreds of jobs
For us to assume anything would could lead to serious consequences so we have to assume nothing and leave you to your own devices
Because of the quality of todays appliances, most appliances now have many risks including:
1/. Unswitched live wires
2/. Devices that store a lethal current even when the power is disconnected
3/. Edges of metal that are Razor sharp
We too are exposed to the same income threatening problems but experience and endless training has prepared us.
I once had a customer who was a professional musician
He was an oboist in the National Orchestra.
He made his living at this
He proceeded to repair an appliance and nearly severed his finger on a Razor sharp stainless steel edge.This gentleman spent 3 months of work without income and was lucky to return to his profession.
My advice to you:
1/. Your health is not worth it
2/. You wealth is not worth it
3/. Call Repairs @
or if you think I’m only giving you the run around
Call the manufacturer and book their service
You may say we are only saying this to protect our income by having a technician do your work however that is not the agenda.
Read in our new stories of families who have lost the bread winner if you don’t believe me
We are just avoiding messy litigation and horror of horror, you injuring yourself possibly even fatally.
Sorry to be blunt but
A spade is a spade is a spade is a spade

Bit rough eh??
The reason I withdrew it was that it was too crass?.
It also would have gone against what I later found in the Articles & Help section.
I had finally followed some of the links as posted in the forums that direct guests to the individual contents of the Articles and Help area. http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/modules.p … ge&pid=102.
In this help area and in many of the posts you guys instruct people to “Do It Yourself”, which, in my opinion, is a recipe for disaster not to mention a revenue loss for engineers in Repairs@. I tend to leave it to pointing out the fault.

Not the end of the PM but enough for this Forum as Craig has re-inforced my thoughts on this subject.

Phewww!!!

I thought that post might have pushed the boundaries of our friendship and sweated on it for a while.

Hope the joke I left in the post above didn’t offend anyone.

You never know peoples circumstances however I’m sure you’d edit if required.

Well said Chris, the guy is obviously a fool.

Thing is it’s obvious to anyone reading that thread that he hasn’t a clue and that the advice given is correct, call an engineer.

To anyone that doesn’t understand that then they’re the type that just would never pay for a repair and are just asking for trouble and why should we help them commit suicide or wreck their home?

K.

alexa wrote:Cause Martin would realize that my post referrred to a different guy

That’s where the confusion for me set in 😕

Even so I still wonder why Dave was so abrupt in his first response to common enough request by a member of the general public after all ❗

Possibly “Not a DIY fix, try Repairs@” may have been better received ❓