Zanussi pressure pots

[robbra]

Hi all,
please tell me an easy way to clean out these wonderful gunge collectors. What do you use to get into these. I have tried bent coat hangers, cable ties and long screwdrivers but they always take ages.
Any tips gratefully accepted
Rop

[Twoten]

Re: Zanussi pressure pots

Hi Rob,

I always removed the unit and used the bent coat hanger with running water in the sink. Water up the walls and the kitchen window!

Since reading the what’s in your toolbox thread
http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=471

I found the syringe (thanks to Martin) good for this. Attach a peice of pressure swith tube and you can flush water right into the chamber where the blockage is.

These syringes are available on Ebay
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/100ml-NEW-Measuring-Syringe-For-Hydroponics-Nutrients_W0QQitemZ7718480534QQcategoryZ3186QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem. Since acquiring one I have found it also useful for draining dishwasher sumps and bases.

[whiskeyjack6058]

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My old faithfull tatty bendy bottle brush works well in the sink with hot water, but they are a time killer to remove… 😕

[goosegreen]

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After all the years I have struggled to remove and clean out the manifolds I had the perfect tool on the van! Its a Pango compressed air drain cleaner I just adapted the nozel to take a lenth of P/switch tube attached this to the exsisting P/switch tube with a butt conector let the tub fill with a few inches of water and give it a blast. Even better on the built in models you can remove the lower plate and attach the tube straight on to the manifold. Works a treat

Goose

[Flyman]

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I have been using a large syringe for the last six years and never had a recall yet. Part fill the machine, switch off and remove the hose(s) from the pressure switch(s). Connect the syringe to the end of the hose and suck water up into the syringe, squirt it back down again. Repeat this several times. Drain the machine then reconnect the hose(s) to the pressure switch(s). Test the machine for the water levels. Five minutes from start to finish and you only have to remove the lid! 😀

200ml syringes are normally available from farm shops in the lambing season and I believe are available from AEG or Bosch but I don’t know the part numbers.

Anything for an easy life.

[Electricmalc]

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Fill a bowl or sink with water, immerse the pressure pots in the water with a piece of pressure hose pushed into the pot, and blow into the pressure hose.
The bubbles loosen the gunge. Have tried the bent wire and wire brush B4 but this is much easier.

WARNING Blow not Suck 😆

Malc

[Kirk]

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After many years of coat hangers and under the tap I now use my small portable hand steamer I fit a hose on the end and SHOVE it up! I then pull the tube of the pressure switch and let it flow back down to clear any debris that is left. Not had a call back yet! started doing it yesterday.

Kirk

[Penguin45]

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Kirk wrote: Not had a call back yet! started doing it yesterday.

I love in-depth research….. Sounds good though.

😀 😀

Chris.

[bobokines]

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Bit confused here, are we talking about washing machine pressure chambers or dishwasher matrixes? 😕

I find the best way of cleaning the dishwasher matrix is to take it off the machine, take it into the garden with a bowl of water. Take the valve coils off. Then squirt warm water through the valve openings with a syringe and give the whole thing a good shake. Be prepared to get wet!

I make a little ‘ bottle brush’ from a length of electrical cable with an inch or so of insulation cut back and the copper conductors frayed out. This can be used to get to hard to reach areas.

Keep at it until all traces of black gunge has gone. Otherwise you will be back within a few months to do it again.

Washing machine pressure chambers I clean through the pressure hoses with hot water from a syringe. Keep sucking and blowing until the water runs clean.

A bit of diluted chlorine bleach helps in both cases

Bob

[robbra]

Re: Zanussi pressure pots

Many thanks for all replies. I think the syringe sounds the least complicated and have ordered one.
Rob.
P.S. It was the washing machine pressure pot

[ace]

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I use a car footpump with the tapered air bed adaptor that comes with it. Give the chamber a root round with a coat hanger, let the machine fill part way, give it a few blasts down the pressure switcg tube. I remove the p/sw tube from the car pump in between blasts, this lets water into the chamber and tube, give it a blast and it flushes everything out.
Don’t forget to pump the water out before refitting the tube back on the switch.

Only been back to one, and that was not the chamber.

One of my customers watched me like a hawk, made a note of everything I did, 3 months later she phoned me with the complaint that it was flooding. She told me she had sent her husband to buy a foot pump and adaptor, told him how to do it, they tried the machine afterwards and it flooded again. She then sent him back to the shop with the pump to change it. Why I hear you ask, because I had used a red one, they had got a blue one. Like a pratt he did as he was told.

Needless to say it was the hot valve sticking open :rotl:

Ace

[Martin]

Re: Zanussi pressure pots

Bosch Syringe = Part no. 340007

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