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Re: New way to replace Bosch brushes.
Martin wrote:
leavemetogetonwithit wrote:
and let us know if this is how you do it. 😆This is how Penguin45 does it.:wink:
That gives a whole new meaning to working out in the field – sounds like you’re out in the countryside and stopped in a layby for a picnic 🙂
Re: New way to replace Bosch brushes.
Sorry, didn’t have time to read the entire thread but I did notice the old argument about whether or not to give advice to the public.
In my opinion, posting videos on how to do something is great if you are a member of the public trying to help fellow consumers as long as the advice is good.
If you are in the trade, then posting totally free advice with no commercial gain at all seems a bit pointless and undermines your own business as well as others for no good reason.
Posting free advice where you do get a financial gain such as through advertisements, or by charging for the advice or by selling the spares etc is a perfectly legitimate 21st-century method of trading. It might undermine fellow engineers sticking to the old methods but this is the modern day and traditional repair businesses have long since been under threat and in decline. New methods of earning money from knowledge need to be exploited.
Every single engineer in the trade has the ability to compete in this new market too. We can all make our own how-to videos which will live or die by how good they are. If the advice and videos are made to make money it’s hard to criticise them, you cannot hold back technology and you cannot enforce traditional methods. The Internet is only going to grow stronger and stronger and more people will use it to find information and buy stuff.
Re: New way to replace Bosch brushes.
robbra wrote:Thanks lads, I will take you up on it but I’m on a week off so putting my feet up in the sun 😆
I’ve sent you an email on the subject for when you get back, as promised Rob. 😀
Re: New way to replace Bosch brushes.
its like being back in the school yard reading theses threads
all IL say that there is half a dozen members who go out of there way to help other engineers or members of the public.iv never met any of you but i have plenty of respect
this is the only professional site on the Internet
through the years iv been reading kens posts and have up most respect
he has so much knowledge about the world wide domestic appliance business and hands on repairs IL always thought this guy must be from technical development (IE he must be building them)
but he actually been out there and got his finger nails dirtymy self I’m proud to be a member of united kingdom white goods trade association
and some people should have more respect.
by the way ken you need to re set this âž¡ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0kJT1HY … re=relatedkeep your chin up matey
garn…
Re: New way to replace Bosch brushes.
andy_art_trigg wrote:If you are in the trade, then posting totally free advice with no commercial gain at all seems a bit pointless and undermines your own business as well as others for no good reason.
Chris posting that video did puzzle me a bit for that very reason Andy. What I think is a great trade video on YouTube is this one. 🙂
Re: New way to replace Bosch brushes.
the guy looks similar to the guy who’s in the hotpoint drum change video
that you get with the drum removal tool 8)
i think his name was martin to 😉Re: New way to replace Bosch brushes.
Martin wrote:
Chris posting that video did puzzle me a bit for that very reason Andy. What I think is a great trade video on YouTube is this one. 🙂
I’ve been back and read all the thread now. Chris did say it was part of the spares@ project. If the video had some advertising about UKW it would have made more commercial sense. That would have involved some processing though, maybe a caption underneath with the spares@ web address could be added? That way it would be a commercial venture and perfectly legit in the modern world 🙂
Re: New way to replace Bosch brushes.
Im gonna place a ad in the lancashire post! brushes fitted from a tenner, see what calls i get. 8)
Re: New way to replace Bosch brushes.
LJDomestics wrote:Im gonna place a ad in the lancashire post! brushes fitted from a tenner, see what calls i get. 8)
WELL ITS GOING TO COST YOU ATLEAST £62.00 TO PUT AN ADD IN YOUR LOCAL RAG
BY THE TIME YOU COVER YOUR OVEHEADS FOR YOUR BUISNESS I RECON YOU WILL HAVE TO GHANGE AT LEAST 20 SETS BEFORE YOU BREAK EVEN.
YOU BETTER TAKE A FLASK AND SARNIES WITH YOU JUST TO KEEP YOUR COSTS DOWN.
NO DINING OUT FOR LUNCH THAT WEEK 🙂
PAUL… 😉
Re: New way to replace Bosch brushes.
Most people now know how to change their own Hotpoint brushes,i have a shop and sell loads,Very rare we sell Bosch brushes,but we do just do Bosch machines to sell in the shop.Most Bosch machines we get are pump blocked or Brushes.Maybe soon we will sell loads of Bosch brushes
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I was actually joking , im in the north east, i was gesting as iadom gets so many brush jobs, i see few here as most people around here do change their own hotpoint brushes and even delve deeper with regard to trying a D.I.Y job as there is a lot of not so well off here in the region.
However i do advertise locally 6 days per week in the local newspaper that is out on a daily basis here, £184.00 per four weekly, its amazing the amount of new people that have moved into the area that require assistance and didn’t contact the local repair shops that have been around here for years! trouble is,they dont advertise like i do so the new to the area customers came directly to me due to advertising regular.
Don’t get me wrong, the local shops will have a decent client base already over the years of trading and i see them wizzing around quite a lot.I also had several thousand business cards delivered door to door to capture the audience that don’t read the local newspaper, the phones not really stopped since!.
So really i think the only way to get anything out is by sticking a good bit in!
Don’t always assume because you are well established and don’t feel the need to advertise, there is forever a new audience to capture moving into your area on a daily basis.
It is silly to have a go at penguin for posting step by step video’s of a brush change, especially as most of us tradesmen come here ( the internet and ukwg ) loooking for answers to jobs we are having a little trouble diagnosing etc!If business has dropped, then DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
Whining won’t bring the wages in.
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This area of the North West is one of the poorest in the country, right up there with certain London boroughs and the North East for people on Social Security, perhaps there are not as many hooked up to t’internet as ‘darn sarf’. 😀
The only people moving in around here a illegal immigrants. :rolls:
Jim.
Re: New way to replace Bosch brushes.
Well if we accept that this sharing of information is inevitable and unstoppable and perhaps even desirable by some accounts, and that the effect on our trade is minimal, then why do we need to have the site split into trade and public areas? Should we not just open the whole thing up?
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Mike.Re: New way to replace Bosch brushes.
As the “Guilty Party” in this horrid little affair, I’ve kept right out of it; but that, Mike, is just plain stupid.
Chris.
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