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Not seen too many of these, but on fill its dumping large quantities of wet stuff into the base from the small side metering tank, presumably an overfill caused by a blocked tank. My question is.. how do you get into the tank as it is a sealed unit with the sump etc. and can the tank be sourced separately. 😕 Also as a new boy to’t site what is a sticky???? ❓
Re: AEG Favorit 420
Hi Cornwell40,
This is usually a blockage in the matrix itself (the side tank) which is integral with the sump moulding. A replacement kit was available which involved hacksawing through the matrix/sump transfer pipe. Great fun in the customers house. 420 is an old one though, I have a feeling the kit is now obsolete. Ask kwatt to see if there is still a valid part number (he’s ever so helpful) and he’ll explain stickies as well
Regards,
Penguin45.Re: AEG Favorit 420
Yes there was a kit available for these, I can check tommorrow for the part number and if it’s still available. Ken (kwatt) won’t mind me butting in as he won’t have the facility to look the spare up as easily as I will.
And while were here, a “sticky” means, if, when you post a new message and select sticky it will “stick” at the top of that forum untill it is “unstickied”. Announcements will always remain above stickies though.
Hope that makes sense 😕
Dave.
Announcements are generally for moderators and site admin to announce something important, hence they sit at the top of the forum.
Next is the sticky ones, which are supposed to be important or of note, worth reading. If there’s no activity on the thread for a while we’ll generally remove the “sticky” status and let the thread fall back as normal.
I’m not one for rigidly enforcing rules on this, I tend to think that most people have enough savvy to suss it themselves when to use or not to the different functions but if there are any questions please feel free to ask.
K.
Re: AEG Favorit 420
Cornwell
Side air chamber kit is still listed by Electrolux Distriparts,
Part number 899 646 403 107 £32.88 + vat retail, carriage extra on small orders £5.00 + vat.
Sparkey
Re: AEG Favorit 420
Dave_Conway wrote:I can check tommorrow for the part number and if it’s still available.
Sparkey already did 😀
Dave.
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😀 Thanks for the info guys. You may have made an old lady very happy…….not me, the customer. By the way, in praise of the site, its great to have this access to what was getting a very lonely occupation.
Ta!
Tony.Re: AEG Favorit 420
I solved this problem once by sawing through the pipe joining the two components [as stated by penguin,] cleaning out the metering tank by soaking it in bleach, and re-fitting it using a piece of rubber hose and 2 jubilee clips. I think I got the right diameter hose from a car spares shop but have forgotten now.
Geoff RolandI did once solve this with a pressure washer – the customer had had the conversion done several years earlier and was reluctant to pay out again – we took it out in the garden and seriously hosed the damn thing! Probably more luck than judgement though.
Worth noting that the one’s which suffered most with the clogging problem are connected to the hot water supply; especially immersion systems. This also seems to apply to the various Thomson built machines and Diplomats.
All the money they save by reducing the heating time gets swallowed up by me having to clean out the fill/water level baffles. False economy?
Penguin.
Penguin45 wrote:I did once solve this with a pressure washer – the customer had had the conversion done several years earlier and was reluctant to pay out again – we took it out in the garden and seriously hosed the damn thing! Probably more luck than judgement though.
Worth noting that the one’s which suffered most with the clogging problem are connected to the hot water supply; especially immersion systems. This also seems to apply to the various Thomson built machines and Diplomats.
All the money they save by reducing the heating time gets swallowed up by me having to clean out the fill/water level baffles. False economy?
Penguin.
It is unwise to fit any dishwasher on a hot supply.
On a cistern fed system the low pressure leads to an extended fill time , due to the resistance met in the water softener. With four or five fills the programme time can become very long.
With a hot fill, the wash phase is shortened due to the heat up time being reduced. If the incoming water is getting close to 65 Deg C the temperature kills off the enzymes in the detergent before it starts to work. The result is a wash phase reduced, by about nine or ten minutes, and the wash is done with little more than dirty water.
There is another downside, or upside, to a hot fill. It leads to premature failure of the fill valve due to overheating; these valves are only rated for about five minutes, even with the cooling effect of a cold water flow.
If anyone can remember the slimline Zanussi dishwashers that washed cleaner on a quickwash than a main wash; that was because, on the main wash phase, the timer did not pause whilst the water heated to temperature. This shortened the wash phase by nine minutes. On the quickwash programme, the timer paused while the water heated and produced a cleaner wash.
The problem could be cured by an additional link lead on the timer, the manufacturer declined to do the modification, probably due to cost. It would have been a “nice little earner” for the Agents. We produced the explanation, and the solution, but it was quietly buried.
wcda
Correct WCDA,
Add also that hot water, especially from an immersion system, is dirty water (that’s why nobody fills the kettle from the hot tap) and you’ve got a recipe for disaster. Not to mention the reduction in wash time by reducing the “hold for heat phase”. Ain’t much going to come clean and the level system on a baffle fill machine will quickly clog.
I love the public.
Regards,
Penguin.
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