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…. who does daft things? Went to a Bosch today, bra wire stuck between inner and outer drum. Asked for a container to catch any drips when I took the heater out, was given best china serving dish, just about small enough to fit under the drum. Extract said bra wire, re-assemble apart from bottom trim panel and do a rinse to check heater joint watertight. Looking into machine for drips and I’ve only gone and put the machine back together with serving dish still inside 😳
Nope been there, done some things just as daft and probably felt just a stupid/angry/annoyed then chuckled later. 😉
K.
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Installed a sink unit and tried the taps before I’d fitted the waste. Not being silly, I put a bowl under the strainer of the sink to catch the water, and was proud I’d thought of it.
Yes you guessed it, picked up the bowl when I finised, emptied it down the sink.
Alex
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Fitted a power unit on a Hotpoint top loader, put the wrap round cabinet and top surround back on, turned round to pick up the back panel and found it leaning against the inner drum. 😳 😯 🙂
Also remember years ago fitting an inner door liner on a Hotpoint fridge, in the days when the insulation was fibre glass and the door liner was held on by 35/40 screws. The metal door was like a Rolf Harris wobble board without the liner so to make sure the door was square after the new panel had been fitted I used to remove the door from the cabinet and lay it on a table. Manually removed and refitted all the screws only to find that I had fitted the liner upside down. ❗
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Did one Monday. Unjammed Logic pump for chatty old lady. Bolted pump back in, set it off – hadn’t put sump hose back on…..
Possibly my finest act of incompetance was an old 10 series Creda washer; replaced drum bearings and seals, fought the tub gasket on, slapped it back onto the drum, bolted everything up and realised that I hadn’t put the pulley back on. Unfortunately, there was no shaft sticking out of the hole in the middle.
Apart from that Phidom, yes, it is just you……. 😀
Chris.
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Apart from w/pool dishwasher waste hose, FL1085 took faulty motor off with raised segment whilst chatting to cust. upon fitting new motor went to test machine after fittting lid to hear clicking noise…
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went to customers house to repair a logic auto
fault was a pump problem so asked for a pan to catch water
fixed fault and leftnext day customer rang to as about pan said she could not find it and thought i had taken it
2 days later returned to investigate noisy machine to retreive pan from underneath eating humble pie with lots of appologies
what i was really thinking was
what a plonker b
Dave
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My brother-in-law knows a TV engineer, that got such a rancid brew in a house somewhere, that he put it in the TV, and put the back panal back on.
You’d think that as soon as the good people of that house moved the TV, it would fall over a wreck the tele, right? Well, apparently, he went back years later, and it was still there, in the unmoved TV.
…and he left it there again!
BTW, sorry, but I’m too young and sharp to make mistakes. 😉
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Goatboy wrote:I’m too young and sharp to make mistakes.
Oh dear.
An invitation for comment if ever I saw one 😈
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Ok, maybe once I when to a repair and found my old cobbing pliers in the bottom of a washer. 😳
…and maybe sometimes I fix people’s vacuums and give them it back without the tools.
But nobody is perfect, right?
Lately, I have had a spate of forgetting to re- fit the blue paddles in the WMA washing machine drum after removing them to heat the bolts up on the drum support for removal, …I am just tidying up and normally spot them lying somewhere….some just clip in and these are ok, but some need to have the tab bent over to retain them and these are the ones that make you want to cry if you forget to fit them before assembling the tub.
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Just spent the evening with Dave from Brighouse Domestics (Musket on UKW). We’ve been friends for years. He turned up this evening with his middle finger bandaged and braced….
Turns out he’s got a vacuum cleaner in the cellar, sticks in a new set of brushes and fires it up to make sure it runs. No brackets, motor takes off, without thinking Dave catches it……… Ouch!
I knew there was a reason I didn’t do vacs!
Chris.
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I once called with a colleague to fix an A3110 Hopover when drum bearings were failing in droves. Opened the door, spun the dum – very noisy rumble. Quoted customer, went to van to get bearings while colleague started stripping machine.
45 min’s later we’d replaced drum bearings and reassembled machine. Colleague puts belt on and spins drum … exactly same noise as before. ’twas the motor bearings failed.
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andy_art_trigg wrote:I once called with a colleague to fix an A3110 Hopover
Is that made by the same firm who make the Legover, 😀
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