Hotpoint brushes – laminated vs thin.

[iadom]

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Penguin45 wrote:161460 now obsolete – get ’em while you can.

Another cunning ploy by Hotpoint perhaps? Ensure that the remaining GEC motors get cooked by the awful 1600474…….

Or am I being paranoid?

Chris.
The white ones are OK. I received 25 sets of the old dodgy type last week from one of my suppliers and promptly posted them back and had them exchanged.

[Penguin45]

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I’m paying £2.65 in 20s.

Chris.

[leavemetogetonwithit]

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At Seme currently £2.83. (1’s) No quantity discount currently offered.(Obviously they know stocks are running out). 😡

It’s not quite the end of the world as we know it but it’s not far short. 🙂
Must be some pattern ones worth having, are there not?
Mike.

[Martin]

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leavemetogetonwithit wrote:Must be some pattern ones worth having, are there not?

Funny you should mention that but again Qualtex do a very splendid CAR64HT with a heat resistant casing (up to 300degs apparently) 😉

[Dave_Conway]

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£2.49 in 10’s anyone (genuine ;)) ?

Dave.

[leavemetogetonwithit]

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Thanks for the offer Dave.
There is a reason why I (nor anyone else so far) has jumped at it and that reason,I think, is as follows:-
We like to keep orders of essentials like this until the moment they will be needed to make an order with one of the big suppliers up to the required carriage free threshold.
So really this is the factor IMO which makes the whole bulk buying show not worth persuing 😥
It would only be worth it if we could buy a competitively large range from this one source. That would mean UKW becoming a BIG spares supplier. I don’t expect anyone here is really interested in doing that, are they?

That said, it could just be worth 💡 somebody filling a garage with 16146077’s
on the basis of selling small quantities after they’re obsolete. But there’s probably no-one who wants to risk tying up that much capital and leaving their car out in the rain. 🙄
Mike.

[Dave_Conway]

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leavemetogetonwithit wrote:There is a reason why I (nor anyone else so far) has jumped at it

Ah, but they have via PM’s 😉

Dave.

[Martin]

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leavemetogetonwithit wrote:So really this is the factor IMO which makes the whole bulk buying show not worth persuing 😥

Mike, even the small ‘one man band’ trader can make ‘bulk buying’ a reality. Chris (Penguin45) and myself the typical example here. We know from experience our spares demands based on current trends OK? WE also realise that buying a batch of say ’20 off’ is far cheaper than ‘one off’. So once a month we double check or stocks on these items and reorder accordingly and take benefit from the massive discounts our wholesalers make available. 😀

So the point I’m making is that you too can benefit from bulk buying on such things as (possibly) MOTOR BRUSHES???? 💡

[leavemetogetonwithit]

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I’m glad to hear that some of you are finding it worthwhile.
I still stick by my point that I need to have something held back with which to “make up” orders if I’m not to keep customers waiting too long.
But I guess I just spend much less on parts than most.
For example I spent an hour changing the end bearing on an old GDA motor today(it was well stuck on, I had to give it the hammer approach in the end – then there was all the messy carbon clean up and changing the melted tacho coil). Not worth it I hear you say, just get a new motor, but it’s a bit of a banger, the customer is as poor as a church mouse and she’s been a good customer over the years and I just felt like spending some time pottering at home. ‘S what self employment’s all about innit?
Mike.

[roly16]

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I was told by a third party so I can’t vouch for the veracity of the story that an engineer in Manchester used to save up his old Hotpoint brushes in holders and when he got a large collection he spent an evening taking out the worn carbons and fitting new ones [I think they were SD19s] in them.
Not something I’ve ever tried or would bother doing but just perhaps he’s got a point. If you’re going to sit and watch Corrie you might as well earn some money at the same time. If you’re doing 100 or 50 it adds up to quite a lot of saving . Whether they last as long as genuine replacements I don’t know.
Anybody any experience of this?

[Phidom]

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I’ve never used the new carbons in old holders on Hotpoints but I used to do this with the Indesco brushes, which used to be very expensive. Pattern Bosch carbons were the same size and a quarter of the price of the Indesco brush assemblies.

[Martin]

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Years ago on TV they had regular COWBOY series. (Rawhide, Wagon Train, Bonanza, The Virginian, High Chapparal* and many others)

Oh how I miss those cowboy programmes….well at least until now and some of the exciting tips and tricks I read on here :rotl:

*
http://www.thehighchaparral.com/

[Phidom]

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These spurs do make a mess of customers laminated floors and it can be difficult finding somewhere to tie up the hoss. 😉 Some of those soldered-in brushes I fitted in 1998 are still going strong though.

[leavemetogetonwithit]

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Brushes with holders are just a modern luxury to avoid getting dirty hands. Real men have nothing to do with them! 😆
Mike.

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