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Re: Bosch WFL2260 motor access
Penguin45 wrote:
LMTGOWI – I hope you’re fitting blanking grommets into the gratuitous holes.Cheers,
Chris.Nah, I’m talking 8mm holes round the back under the worktop. The gap between the cabinet front and the floor would present more danger.
Anyway, I won’t need to do it again now I know your tricks!By the time a penguin finds greener pastures, he remembers that penguins only eat fish.
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leavemetogetonwithit wrote:By the time a penguin finds greener pastures, he remembers that penguins only eat fish.
😀 Please don’t – I promise you, I’ve heard all of them – there is even photographic evidence in the Gallery….. 😀
But seriously folks…. 10mm ratchet spanner, £5.99 in Halfords. Alledgedly “professional” quality – I’m on my 3rd one in 2 years 🙄 .
Chris.
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leavemetogetonwithit wrote:Nah, I’m talking 8mm holes round the back under the worktop.
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OMG! I thought you were joking! You are joking, right?
That’s better that Phi taking Zanussi tubs out of the cabinet to fit door seals!
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No, Billy, not joking.(I wouldn’t like to be the butt of your jokes 😆 ). (Sorry to milk that for all it’s worth; must be the herd mentality).
Only takes a minute to drill a couple holes. Have saved £17.97 (3 x £5.99) in last two years by not having to buy “professional” 10mm ratchet spanners @ H”””ords. Also a tenner on plasters & bandages. 😉
Am thinking of getting one of those mini-drill things with multi attachments at W”””worths with all this new found wealth. Has anyone found them useful?
Mike.Re: Bosch WFL2260 motor access
No way!!!
You don’t really drill holes in the back of customers machine, do you????
It must be a wind up surely 😕
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boro wrote:No way!!!
You don’t really drill holes in the back of customers machine, do you????
It must be a wind up surely 😕
No,as I said, an electric one. 😆
Can somebody tell me what’s wrong with making minor improvements to the design of customers’ machines? If you came across one of my “improved” Bosches, I take it you would not deign to use the holes I had provided for your convenience as well as my own, prefering instead to wrestle with a Halfords ratchet at 45* angle? What about all those holes you find where transit bolts were fitted? They’re much bigger. I’ve come across quite a few cases where customers, having done a bit of work themselves,hadn’t bothered to replace the back panel at all.
Actually it’s only been the once so far (at least for this make/model) but it worked so well, I wouldn’t hesitate to do it again and I’d be surprised if the customer wasn’t impressed with my common sense approach.(Obviously,I’d OK it with them 1st).
Before the internet came along we only got spares delivery once a week out here,so in order to keep customers happy I developed a few ways round things (temporary repairs and the like). Some things I learned from coming across the work of others, some things I thought of myself.
I’m learning a whole lot of new ones from this site,thanks to you chaps and I very much appreciate that. 😀 Hope eventually there’ll be opportunities/contexts to reveal more of my own brilliant ideas 😉Re: Bosch WFL2260 motor access
Penguin45 wrote:
But seriously folks…. 10mm ratchet spanner, £5.99 in Halfords. Alledgedly “professional” quality – I’m on my 3rd one in 2 years 🙄 .I have a WFL2450 carbon brushes job to do tomorrow morning and as I was driving past my local Halfords today I thought I would follow Penguin`s advice and buy a 10mm ratchet spanner.
Hope it makes the job easier Chris because it was bloody £9:49 😯 , no wonder it was in a locked cabinet. I`ll be doing my best not to break it but it beats drilling holes in the back of the cabinet anyway. 😆Bryan
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That’s £28.47 Penguin and you are each set to waste over the next couple of years then. 😆
You could each have bought yourselves a nice BOSCH drill by now ❗Re: Bosch WFL2260 motor access
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that the Halfords Professional range comes with a lifetime warranty, even if the are mainly made in China or Taiwan 🙂 That makes P45’s investment very sound, if it breaks take it back for a new one.
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I snapped a Torx 30 Halfords Pro on first use ( ( Indesit bearing spider ) replaced without any quibbles.
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I`ve just hauled the packaging out of the bucket and I`m away to staple it to the receipt…..just in case . 😀
Made in China….lifetime guarantee , seems like a contradiction in terms.
Chris , maybe at £5:99 you`re getting the cheapo version. 😆Bryan
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Halfords?, Woolworths?…made in High St, China?
Guys, get quality tools in future from Snap On or Britool and live the dream 8)
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Martin wrote:Halfords?, Woolworths?…made in High St, China?
Guys, get quality tools in future from Snap On or Britool and live the dream 8)
Are they guaranteed against you leaving them somewhere, last week,
you can’t remember where?Re: Bosch WFL2260 motor access
when you remove back panel to take belt off, wedge something between tub rear and cabinet, so that when you tilt machine back to access motor the tub isn’t resting against cabinet rear and you can get at bolts with 10mm socket on 1/4″ rachet from socket set you already have rather than buying rachet spanner for job.
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