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Re: Hoover vision HD VHD 9123 D
Went to one about a month ago, same fault. Checked pump filter, sump hose for rubbish and the sink U bend connector. All fairly clean. Did a test wash, worked perfect. Got back home, customer phones to say its done it again, told them to switch it off, and leave it alone, don’t touch anything. Went back, very small load in machine, also they were using a liquid detergent, which they were just pouring in, no measuring. Therefore the pump was full of nearly neat detergent, which would foam up on first empty position. Advised customer to do full loads and use powder instead, had no call backs. Hope this helps, Martin.
Re: Whirlpool American top loader
Thanks for that John, Whirlpool out of stock, and only want £15 for it.
Re: Ariston LSI61 difficulty selecting program
Check everthing to do with heater circuit, especially stats & NTC, stops the feed to pcb
Martin
Re: Servis M3025 Sole Motor
Most common cause, will not spin without a heavy load in drum. Try putting a load in drum, if no load or too light a load, will not spin.
Martin
Re: What resistor do I need?
Seme have not had any in stock for months, try CPC, Farnell, or RSComponents.
Recommended rating 5 wattsI used to build prototype PCB’s
Martin
Re: White Knight CL767
Went to this version yesterday, fault tripping electric, as soon as I removed the lower back panel water started to run out, this one had a good seal. The moment you switched the machine on, the fan picked up the water sitting in the bottom of the back panel and sprayed it through the heater. Usual problem with with this crap design, impellor dropped off pump shaft, only held on with an ‘0’ ring. Had same problems on both Bosch and White Knight. Always done them from the back, and drum out.
Ace
Re: Cooking on the oven base
On ovens with a base element, nothing should be put on the base.
I went to one where the customer had the manufacturers out twice under guarantee. The fault was for a burning smell, the manufacturer could not find anything wrong and charged her a call out both times. At 13 months I was called to it because it was overheating, I pulled it out of the housing to change the oven stat, the chipboard base under the oven had an 18 inch diameter hole burnt through it. I enquired if she used aluminium foil in the bottom of the oven, she did. This directs the heat downwards. When the engineers called she threw the foil out. By the end of the week the manufacturers had supplied and fitted a new oven and housing, refunding the two callout charges and paid my call out. Needless to say the customer did not mention aluminimum foil.
With roasting dishes, the base of the oven buckles upwards, the best one I have seen so far is on an Ariston, a hump in the middle 30mm high.
All the instruction books I have seen state that nothing should be placed on the base. Regards Martin.
Re: Really smart tumble dryers?
All too complicated, there is a much simpler solution.
In the good old days everbody had a clothes airer fastened to the ceiling, raised and lowered by a rope and pulleys. Heat from the fire range would dry the clothes overnight no problem, condensation no problem, it all went up the chimney.
Modern solution, ceiling full of clothes airers, a decent dehumidifier with humity stat, by setting the stat you can dry the clothes from damp to bone dry. Only uses a small amount of electric, and more heat given out than electric used.
For the more affluent, build a £15, 000 conservatory with a vented peak and with tie rods strengthenig the roof. Hang the washing on the rods overnight. Condensation goes out of the vent, no electric used.
Ace.
Have to go now, some blokes are hammering on the door, seem to be carrying a white jacket with buckles and straps.Re: creda c150ew
One of the troubles with these cast solid plates is they take ages to heat up. I have had them where part of the elemnt has gone o/c, but it still heats up, but slower thn normal. The quickest way I have found to test for this is with a clip on Amp meter, tests each setting on the switch and the elements, more amps as the switch is turned higher.
Beware of these pratts who test cookers in schools. I was in the Home Economics Room (posh for cookery lessons), repairing a tumble drier.
This pratt came in to test the cookers on their annual inspection, failed every one on insulation. I said to him, how many do you fail, hundreds he replied. I told him to go round and switch all the cookers on for a few minutes, and the test them again. They all passed.
The teacher who was with me was amazed, I told her that as the cookers had not been used for three days, the elements has absorbed moisture from the air, and this is what had shown up on the meter. Has anybody else noticed that most elements are not sealed at the ends anymore, where the porcelain insulater fits.
Ace
Re: Zanussi pressure pots
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
