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kwatt wrote:Ariston split door seal… nuff said. 😉
Ooooooh………. 948CD – evil, evil brute. Please tell me there are none left! And who put the fan motor at the bottom? Sheer genius :rolls: .
Chris.
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…cleaning condesers on Miele washer driers… 😥
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BOTH CAVITYS ON A DOUBLE OVEN ERrrrrrrrr
ROGUE
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Smashing out almost a square metre of thick Welsh slate floor tiles in order to get to a Neff integrated washer dryer out!
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Cue Ken…..
Candy Charme range bearings, especially the Turbo washer dryers. Worse than that, Candy Top loader bearings.
Worse than that… Zanussi f/freezer insulation re-foams in the 1980’s.
Puts you lot in the shade.
Alex
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Whilst we are on a candy theme…1980’s or there abouts candy door boot change,(sorry can’t remember model) boy was that a pig to do,i can remember i was encamped in the womans kitchen most of the morning 😳
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Went on a dream, would have been the 804 805 range at that time. The early ones had a straightforward 7mm headed nut/bolt, and with a universal socket and 7mm ring spanner, piece of cake through the porthole.
Early 90’s they fitted a spring which the bolt passed through, which meant you couldn’t spin the nut along the thread, and needed to ratchet the thing the whole way. Turbo washer dryers took about 5 mins longer. If you overtightened the tub lip would buckle and you’d have a leak.
Alex
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I guess none of you have ever changed a pump to outlet hose on a Hotpoint Countess/1200 wringer machine or a cabinet change on a Hotpoint Empress/1100 then. 😉
PS. I cannot think of any way in which Hotpoint 1800,9000, WM series pump change could be described as awkward. 😕
As for the 1800 brush change I did the odd one through the front but mainly from the back, a small flat blade dumpy screwdriver was all you needed to get the old ones out.
Jim.
agree with you helo_75 bloomberg door seal has to be right up there.
The first one I done took about 45 min, all the ones I have done since still take about 45min!Re: A Tricky Job? – Whats the hardest repair you have done?
ALEX WROTE
Worse than that… Zanussi f/freezer insulation re-foams in the 1980’s.
I DID NOT MIND DOING THEM EASY MONEY ( UNLESS THEY HAD NOT BEEN DEFOSTED)
ROGUE
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Alex wrote:Cue Ken…..
Candy Charme range bearings, especially the Turbo washer dryers. Worse than that, Candy Top loader bearings.
Worse than that… Zanussi f/freezer insulation re-foams in the 1980’s.
Puts you lot in the shade.
Alex
Was that the razor sharp stainless steel tub with about as much rigidity as a beer can? If so, I still have the scars……. 🙁
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corner brackets on the old hoover single tub? resilient bearing on hoover 3174?
showing my age again wilf 😆
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wilf wrote: resilient bearing on hoover 3174?
showing my age again wilf 😆Where you need arms 6 foot long to get at either end. Early ones were not too bad as held with 2 5/16 screws, later ones had aan open ended steel sprung loaded band, just as you fitted it, boing and off it would come.
Alex
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wilf wrote:showing my age again wilf 😆
Good Lord the old codgers have come out to play in this thread I see. 😆
Yes indeed the shoulder units of the single tub were a bugger especially the wringer drive shoulders. But that was kids stuff compared to 3224’s and 3226’s (ATH timer conversions and Tub & Drum replacements)as Alex will no doubt concur. 😉
Worst still, and going back even further to my halcyon days in the 1960’s was changing the built-in immersion heaters and/or getting the ruddy impellors off those Dishlex dishwashers just to change the motor. 👿
I bet the Bosch lads never ever saw a VT550 and the ever popular VT570 or know what the hell I’m talking about even? Whimps need not apply to try even moving one of those machines let alone fixing one! Men were men in those days!8)
I’ve just remembered those flippin’ Hoover A3208 motors with the god awful plastic gears that shredded to a pile of plastic and grease in the bell housing! (Used on the Sinclair C5 as well they were)…how times have changed eh?
Happy days!:D
This job ain’t fun no more. The thrill of the fix just don’t happen as customers have long since turned into ‘quick fix, cheap as chips, fix it yesterday or I’m buying a new one’ type people. Back in the old days they valued their precious machines like they were part of the family and could little afford to even think about getting a new one. It just had to be fixed and likely as not we were able to do so for a modest and valued by all type fee rather than the cut and run approach today I guess. 🙁
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Alex – There were 3 bolts and you needed a peice of wood 4 feet long and a 5lb lump hammer to remove the old bearing.
Martin & Alex – Do you remember when you could replace the diaphram inside the fill valves and remove and replace the sleeve bearings on the drain pump of the 3224. The times I have taken the skin off my knuckles trying to remove the brake disc and phosphor bronze sleeve from the drum shaft on those early Keymatics.
You had some satisfaction when a repair had been completed. It was not just a case of fitting whole components. Motors, pumps, gearing and valves were not available as complete parts. 😛
I will now sit back in my rocking chair, with my slippered feet resting on my zimmer frame, and drink my cocoa, before taking my afternoon nap. Oh those were the days, when you could by 15 litres of petrol for 18 shillings and 9 pence. 😉
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