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Re: hotpoint belt fitting tool
Here’s a tip on fitting Crosslee belts, and should work on the Creda ones.
Get yourself a Tricity Bendix oven door handle, 3116132006 (comes as a pair). Pull off one end cap/piece, and then the hollow end put over the motor shaft as you “roll” the belt along into place. The remaining end piece/cap (which will be in your hand) you use to rotate the belt into place.
Alternatively use a long-reach socket on an extension.
Alex
Re: REDUNDANCIES AT COMET
bagman wrote:……. MFI Engineers though…that’s a different story! 😉
Are there any left?
My area for MFI gets larger every month, more than I can say for the rates.
Back to Comet, I know one or two from Exeter, and even when we follow their engineers, they have already demonstrated to the customer their professionalism, but the vibes are strong that they get very little support, and the morale seems to be low.
Alex
Re: A Tricky Job? – Whats the hardest repair you have done?
Nostalgia is not what it used to be.
When we got rid of £-s-d (15/02/1971) 3 gallons of premium petrol was £1.00. I used to fill my Anglia 105E with 6 gallons for £2, car tax was £17/10s you would buy a packet of 20 Players No6 for 3/6 (15p) and a pint of Double Diamond was 2/6, (12.5p) You could get 8 pints for a quid, and nobody except toffs drank wine.
Conversion AU to AT harness on the 3224, bearing housing changes got down to just under 2 hours, sealing the spin chambers on the 3314L t/tub, 4805 D/W anything that needed replacing in the sump, Candy 2 door “Silent” D/Washers. Thanks Martin for reminding me about the 3221H planet & sun gears, and of course Alvania grease.
Anyway, we are drifting off the subject a bit. Back to the future, there is an AEG American cabinet F/Freezer where to reverse the door takes 2 engineers and a wiring loom change as the existing isn’t long enough. Also a fridge/freezer where if the element fails on the battery evaporator, you need to disconnect the whole assy from the compressor, (which is a system repair) and lift out the compressor to replace the element.
Very little is made these days with the technician in mind, we have evolved into part fitters, the opportunity to “engineer” the repair has all but vanished. I wonder how long it will take before we vanish?
Alex
Re: A Tricky Job? – Whats the hardest repair you have done?
wilf wrote: resilient bearing on hoover 3174?
showing my age again wilf 😆Where you need arms 6 foot long to get at either end. Early ones were not too bad as held with 2 5/16 screws, later ones had aan open ended steel sprung loaded band, just as you fitted it, boing and off it would come.
Alex
Re: A Tricky Job? – Whats the hardest repair you have done?
Went on a dream, would have been the 804 805 range at that time. The early ones had a straightforward 7mm headed nut/bolt, and with a universal socket and 7mm ring spanner, piece of cake through the porthole.
Early 90’s they fitted a spring which the bolt passed through, which meant you couldn’t spin the nut along the thread, and needed to ratchet the thing the whole way. Turbo washer dryers took about 5 mins longer. If you overtightened the tub lip would buckle and you’d have a leak.
Alex
Re: A Tricky Job? – Whats the hardest repair you have done?
Cue Ken…..
Candy Charme range bearings, especially the Turbo washer dryers. Worse than that, Candy Top loader bearings.
Worse than that… Zanussi f/freezer insulation re-foams in the 1980’s.
Puts you lot in the shade.
Alex
Re: MFI
Funny you mentioned accounts. It is a shambles at present, I’m not able to reconcile anything.
I get an audit trail, then 3 weeks later a payment hits the bank for a totally different sum.
I’m actually busy enough to bin them but the way things are heading, and the vibes I get about others having very little work, I may stick with them as a schedule filler, but it may not last. Need to get rid of some spares though.
I have had no contact at all, no service bulletins for 3 years, no correspondence, Nado.
Alex
Re: Philco WD1009SE motor.
Depends what motor is already in there. If the Square “Metz” motor with a plastic pulley, you need to fit a kit.
Ref metz and siemens type motors. These motors are no longer available you must use the indesco motor. On all these older models you will need to replace the module and the interface.
Alex
Re: anyone know how you tell beko date codes for the washers
Take 07-012345-09 1st 2 is the year, last 2 the month, Therefore will be year 2007 month 9
Alex
Re: Recommended Listening
gegsy wrote:Madonna !!! she takes some beating (not physically)
She is 50 (August) and still fitter than most of us will ever be (Jim an exception 😉 ) ] Yes she really is 49 !!!
GregAnd it shows, look at her neck, she reminds me of Bette Davis.
Dreadful woman! Can’t see the attraction!
Alex
Re: Yellow Pages
We are well into month 2 of the new Y.P. book with no advert except the bare minimum.
To date we have NOT noticed the difference. I do a spread sheet for every Month showing the percentage of income regards my top 6 accounts over the business as a whole, including Cheques, C/cards and Cash. The chart produces a graph of the trend with a comparison relating to the same period the previous year.
When my 1st quarter ends in July, I shall pop in some figures. Year on year the chargeable work has dropped by approximately 4{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} and looking to date, there is nothing that worries me.
So far so good. Alex
Re: Hoover Keymatic 3226
Sumphose became obsolete in 1980/81 so I suspect no chance. But perhaps there will be an old one from somebody’s attic or maybe an old machine left out there, but highly unlikely as these used to rot with age.
Wait for Martin, he will come up with the part numbers from his memory.
Best of luck, Alex
Re: indesit, worst kept secret.
Can’t say I’m surprised.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/camb … 403375.stm
All we can supply now in employment relate to financial, services, education & health.
We used to be world leaders.
Alex
Re: Free pint up for grabs.
Both still available, and I have them in stock.
Hinges retail @ £12.25 each & Supports @ £7.07 each. Need to add a fiver postage & the Vat, and I will knock off 25{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} the parts prices
If you want them, send me an e-mail from the link with a postcode phone number etc. I can call you for c/card details.
Alex
