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Re: A Tricky Job? – Whats the hardest repair you have done?
Richard wrote:… those were the days, when you could by 15 litres of petrol for 18 shillings and 9 pence. 😉
Now you really are telling porkies, if you asked the pump attendant for 15 litres he would have sent you away with a flea in your ear 😆
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Richard wrote: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.
True enough! But just fitting the roller, 2 springs and pressure collar on that brake disc was challenge enough surely?:D
Richard wrote: Oh those were the days, when you could by 15 litres of petrol for 18 shillings and 9 pence. 😉
Ah :lesson:
Richard was guilty only by putting a modern translation to his post as he realised that many these days don’t know what a gallon is? So 15 litres = 3 gallons in todays terms OK? 😆
By the way Richard, don’t forget 3d for 3 shots of Redex with that :rotl:
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Nostalgia is not what it used to be.
When we got rid of £-s-d (15/02/1971) 3 gallons of premium petrol was £1.00. I used to fill my Anglia 105E with 6 gallons for £2, car tax was £17/10s you would buy a packet of 20 Players No6 for 3/6 (15p) and a pint of Double Diamond was 2/6, (12.5p) You could get 8 pints for a quid, and nobody except toffs drank wine.
Conversion AU to AT harness on the 3224, bearing housing changes got down to just under 2 hours, sealing the spin chambers on the 3314L t/tub, 4805 D/W anything that needed replacing in the sump, Candy 2 door “Silent” D/Washers. Thanks Martin for reminding me about the 3221H planet & sun gears, and of course Alvania grease.
Anyway, we are drifting off the subject a bit. Back to the future, there is an AEG American cabinet F/Freezer where to reverse the door takes 2 engineers and a wiring loom change as the existing isn’t long enough. Also a fridge/freezer where if the element fails on the battery evaporator, you need to disconnect the whole assy from the compressor, (which is a system repair) and lift out the compressor to replace the element.
Very little is made these days with the technician in mind, we have evolved into part fitters, the opportunity to “engineer” the repair has all but vanished. I wonder how long it will take before we vanish?
Alex
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And what about dryer element change on aeg lavamat 2000,whole tub outjob,bosch vt595,door sealand those rolls twin tub spin mounts,drill out nuts job
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whiskeyjack6058 wrote:Today I went out to fit a sump hose to a CDA CI392 integrated washing machine.
There will be worst jobs I’m sure..
Feedback anyone?Robert.
No, I don’t think there are. I’ve still not managed this one; the collar is designed to push into the neck of the sump hose [ or soap hose] from inside the outer tub. How you get in by pushing it up the hose from outside I’ve never figured out.
The last one I had had a split in the middle of the sump hose. I cut it in half, and joined the the two halves together with a short length of plastic tubing and two jubilee clips. Worked fine.
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Hang on lads, i’m just getting my anorak on!!!!
I have been out to a few Bosch VT washer dryers, lukily most of the bits are obsolete! I still have customers who have them and refuse to change them.
Worst jobs have to be, 80’s and 90’s mainly……….
Tank change on Philco’s (flimsy stainless spotwelded thing).
Dryer ducts on the OLD Zanussi Jetsystem Turbodrys and the sump/heater assembly on these.
Hotpoint top loader gearbox.
Servis Homecare QUARTZ washer dryer bearing change.
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nationalhomecare wrote:
Servis Homecare QUARTZ washer dryer bearing change.
SteveArrrghh, all those bolts and then the last few would be corroded and then snap. 🙁
I remember them from my short stint at National Homecare. Never again!
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nationalhomecare wrote:
Hotpoint top loader gearbox.Why so,I assume you mean a power unit as opposed to the gearbox itself. 45 minutes max, wrap round cab off, lift console and top surround off and rest it back on suitable chair or stool. Outer drum off, take motor & balance weight off chassis then lift out the power unit. Wedge four of the rectangular nuts from the motor or weight bolts into the suspension dampers to keep them open and refit new assembly. Easy peasy.
Jim.
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iadom wrote:
nationalhomecare wrote:
Hotpoint top loader gearbox.
Why so,I assume you mean a power unit as opposed to the gearbox itself. 45 minutes max, wrap round cab off, lift console and top surround off and rest it back on suitable chair or stool. Outer drum off, take motor & balance weight off chassis then lift out the power unit. Wedge four of the rectangular nuts from the motor or weight bolts into the suspension dampers to keep them open and refit new assembly. Easy peasy.
Jim.
History now though, Jim 😥Re: A Tricky Job? – Whats the hardest repair you have done?
I was involved in B-Grade Hoover products for a long time and I remember doing the T5090 twin tubs. I used to dread changing the front panel which held the lift up mechanism for the spinner, although I found a easy way round it in the end.. 😈
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When I was a raw recuit in the 70’s, my boss always threatened me with repairing a Burco 21 washing machine. I never did see one.
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iadom wrote:
nationalhomecare wrote:
Hotpoint top loader gearbox.
Why so,I assume you mean a power unit as opposed to the gearbox itself. 45 minutes max, wrap round cab off, lift console and top surround off and rest it back on suitable chair or stool. Outer drum off, take motor & balance weight off chassis then lift out the power unit. Wedge four of the rectangular nuts from the motor or weight bolts into the suspension dampers to keep them open and refit new assembly. Easy peasy.
Jim.
Me and power units/gearboxes never got on whether twintubs or toploaders, I don’t think it was anything to do with the product rather the company I worked for lacked the training/knowledge so everything was always hard work with them. Its great when someone comes along who’s had experiance time and again and shows you how its done, often with quirky ways to make life easier, that sort of help always proves invaluable!
Problem was, we would see a toploader every couple of months if that asthey we’re a dying breed so I never built up a familiarity with then.
Good machine none the less!! 🙂Re: A Tricky Job? – Whats the hardest repair you have done?
In answer to the above question…
Any job that involved the word “family” or “friends”.
Always the trickiest.
K.
Re: A Tricky Job? – Whats the hardest repair you have done?
There was a time when the top loader gearbox was available as a separate item from the complete power unit. You could change those without removing anything other than the back panel, gyrator tripod, seal and loosening the bowl clamp, if you knew what you were doing of course. 😉
It may well be history but it is experience that can never be repeated, anyone else ever work on one of these, I have. 😳
Jim.
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What a lovely piece of kit 🙂
Unfortunatly, No, it seems (I know i’m going to get stick for this!) but the real ‘Engineering’ side of the job has gone, and those of us that like to take things apart and ‘Repair’ a part are looked at by others with dismay and scorn, some days I feel like its just a fit parts job.
I bet pump manufacturers will never introduce a repair set for a pump like the ones for indesit ‘L’ series 🙁
But then again everythings so throw away these days no need to….
I must be getting old….. 😆
Steve
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