Motor Carbon Brushes It would not surprise many people in the trade to hear me say that a lot of people think that replacing carbon brushes in their washing machine will cure all ills, but it doesn’t and it’s perhaps not just as straightforward as you think. In days of old carbon brus…
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Electrician’s death was a tragic accident
A coroner’s jury has returned a verdict of accidental death in the case of a washing machine repairman from Borehamwood, who was electrocuted at work earlier this year. Peter Roseman, known as John to friends and family, was fixing a washing machine in Sutton Path, Borehamwood, on January 12 this…
How To Replace Washing Machine Drum Bearings
Replacing Drum Bearings Of all repairs that can be done to a washing machine this can be one of the most physically difficult to successfully complete as, more often than not these days it requires a complete stripdown of the machine. The first thing you have to realise about a bearin…
Lord Hunt calls for renewed action on gas safety
At a gas safety stakeholder forum on Monday 2 October, hosted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Lord Hunt of Kings Heath made it clear that complacency on gas related carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is not an option. Research commissioned from University College London by HSE to inform its…
Consumers To Be Charged For WEEE?
The implementation of an environmental recycling charge (ERC) is supported by a number of industry associations, according to reports. The current argument regarding costs is based on the requirement, set out in the WEEE directive, that all producers and suppliers must take responsibility for rec…
Whirlpool To Fire 1200 Workers
Whirlpool will lay off 1,200 U.S. workers and expand production at a Mexican factory. The big Michigan appliance maker said Tuesday it would expand production of side-by-side refrigeration products at its Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, facility beginning in 2007.
Siemens bosses donate £3.4m pay rise to workers
Siemens executives yesterday agreed to put off a 30% pay rise for a year and contribute the €5m (£3.4m) to a €35m fund to retrain some of the 3,000 employees threatened with redundancy at its stricken former mobile phone business. The German technology group has suffered a torrent…
Dyson Re-Launch Their Washing Machine, Or Do They?
There’s been rumours for months now that Dyson was going to resurect the Contrarotator washing machine with not-so-subtle hints being dropped all over the place by none other than James Dyson himself in the press. This morning I came across a couple of articles that seem to indicate that the mach…
Miele Shows New XXL Commercial Dryers at Expo Detergo
Miele Italy will be exhibiting its newest commercial tumble dryers featuring its patented honeycomb drum at Expo Detergo in Milan. The newest dryer has an 800-L drum to provide high laundry throughput – the PT 7801 tumble dryer has a load capacity of 32 kg based on a load-to-volume ratio of 1:25….
Royal Mail finds ‘washing machine man’
A postcard sent by a boy to his grandfather addressed only to “The Washing Machine Man, Ixworth” arrived at the right address two days later.