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Re: Magnitron(?) for Panasonic Combi microwave
All part of the service, do tell this repairer about us though, he may not be one of our numbers.
Alex
Re: Magnitron(?) for Panasonic Combi microwave
Under NO circumstances be tempted to open up and have a look. They can hold a charge of up to 6,000 volts, even if unplugged from the mains, and you won’t survive that size of a shock.
Therefore take it to an authorised M/Wave repairer. The Panasonic invertor type is a good machine, and might be worth spending some money.
Take a look inside the cooking area, and see if there is any burns or burnt fat deposits on the inner roof. There should be a sheet of mica in the roof, (looks like beige or grey plastic 4″ x 3″ approx), and they can breakdown and burn as well as spark and arc across. If that is the case, won’t cost an arm or a leg. But even then, not a DIY job.
Alex
Re: zanussi bolt
A good sharp cold chisel and a lump hammer. Make a small indentation in the face of the countersunk bolt, and start chipping away with the chisel angled so you drive it anti-clockwise. It does work.
Heat is all very well, and if you use that method a bit of oxygen from the refigeration brazing kit & it works ok, bit drastic though.
Alex
Re: Service Power
In case you missed it in the main arena. Some scouser was trying to look for his old buddies from Candy, and came up with some names. Friends-reunited, eat your heart out!
I phoned Terry Jackson last night and he put me in the picture regards who is doing what. I told Terry I would post up the results, and asked if he had a problem if I divulged who he is now working for. He is quite happy for all to know where he is, as people should look at him as the guy they know, not who he works for and his associates. Good point I suppose.
The point of this is, Terry Jackson was a service Manager for Candy, before that Merloni, and despite all that an all round good bloke, (well I think so). Anyways, he has been seduced by his old Powerhouse boss David Brock. Sold his soul to the devil perhaps.
This gave me the excuse to ask a couple of things, and I steered the conversation around to Trubshaw. He tells me that Trubshaw is still there but is more or less a salesman, and deals with new accounts. He has no controlling power status etc. Another little snippet, they are pulling in a fair few new repairers on the Brown goods side, and most are NESN agents. Intrigues me how that’s possible when Mr T managed to tie all the agents down, and not go to other work providers.
Nice to have an insider, but I don’t want to abuse this if you get my point. Any info volunteered will be passed on though.
Alex
Re: Lost Contact
Paul Alig, now self employed engineer in the Wirral.
Dave Highton, National Service Manager for Wetrock industrial cleaners.
Chris Wainwright, Service engineer, Baumatic.
Bruno Pino, still at Gias, on returns.
Tony Games, still there, doing whatever!!
Terry Jackson, left Powerhouse, working for Service Power.
I suppose once you get into this business, tend to remain. Faithful lot aren’t we.
Alex
Re: Useful tip… Fat in drain pipe
As Lawrence, but I pour some boiling water into tube and stretch the pipe at the same time.
Alex
Re: Another joke.
A visitor is being shown around a Scottish hospital.
At the end of his visit, he is shown into a ward with a number of patients who show no obvious signs of injury. He goes to examine the first man he sees, and the man proclaims:
Fair fa’ yer honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain e’ the puddin’ race!
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,
painch tripe or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy o’ a grace
as lang’s my arm.
The visitor, somewhat taken aback, goes to the next patient, and immediately the patient launches into:
Some hae meat, and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.This continues with the next patient:
Wee sleekit cow’rin tim’rous beastie,
O what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
wi’ bickering brattle.
I wad be laith to run and chase thee,
wi’ murdering prattle!”“Well,” the visitor mutters to his colleague, “I see you saved the psychiatric ward for the last.”
… Wait for it…
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“No, no,” the Scottish doctor corrected him, “this is the Serious Burns unit.”Re: Humiliation……..
Well being overtaken by an ice-cream van, and your van losing power…………..
Perhaps you blew a seal!!!
Alex
Re: Lost Contact
If I get 5 minutes I’ll phone Terry Jackson.
Do you remember Mel Barff, and Chris Wainwright? Tony Games is another one, as well as Bruno Pino. Have to be careful what I say, you could be one of them.
Alex, who was introduced to Candy training from a reel to reel projector on the Lady K in 1975
Re: Expert Appliance Care
EAC need to sell the business, if that is possible. To do that they will need a healthy “Order Book”. Therefore, any work that may be in the offing, might not stay. A management buy out for example would quickly claw back the work. Strategically, they will endeavour to hold onto any existing contracts, or at least start making approaches and reassurances to their work suppliers and the manufacturers.
Problem is, the largest part of their workload was I/G or insurance work, and there is no money in that. There is little these days in chargeable on refrigeration, (when did anyone last fit a VT9), and let’s face it, they were no good at selling themselves to the general public.
I’ve had it suggested to me by LEC that I might be getting a lot more work soon. Then there is Servevast (Smeg), British Gas, and what about MFI?
MFI don’t want to think about it. They don’t have direct service with the skills, and some of the agents are not geared up for refrigeration. LEC have similar with some of their repairers who don’t want to know about Medical products, and Glen Dimplex the parent company of Lec don’t quite have the infrastructure to hande the work themselves. Lec agents needn’t get excited either, as Glen Dimplex are starting a training programme, and will no doubt start doing doors and cosmetic bits themselves. Leaving the rest of us with the system work, or the wrongly diagnosed calls.
To fill the gap, I can see that possibly one of the above could get involved. However, MFI appear to be in trouble, Glen Dimplex backed out, and forget Brit Gas, they are looking to hive it all off. Those that passed it away such as Hotperloni have probably lost the skills, and might not even be geared up for this type of work.
Then we think of the surfeit of good engineers. Trouble is as already been said, “One Trick ponies”. Good at what they do, but a limited repertoire. There are not many of us that need such an addtion to the team.
I wonder if there is anything in this to get excited about, somehow I don’t think so.
Alex
Re: The Big Bad Wolf
If anyone thinks they will benefit from the short term fall-out, they need to get real.
Further to Ken’s post regards the support from on high, they didn’t get that luxury in the end, they were left to their own destiny, with no support at all. The demise has been going on for some time.
For a start, EAC need to sell the business, if that is possible. To do that they will need a healthy “Order Book”. Therefore, any work that may be in the offing, might not stay. A management buy out for example would quickly claw back the work. Strategically, they will endeavour to hold onto any existing contracts, or at least start making approaches and reassurances.
Problem is, the largest part of their workload was I/G or insurance work, and theer is no money in that. There is little these days in chargeable on refrigeration, (when did anyone last fit a VT9), and let’s face it, they were no good at selling themselves to the general public.
I’ve had it suggested to me today by LEC that I might be getting a lot more work soon. Then there is Servevast (Smeg), British Gas, and what about MFI?
MFI don’t want to think about it. They don’t have direct service with the skills, and some of the agents are not geared up for refrigeration. LEC, (who now pay £40 per call by the way) are similar. Some of their repairers don’t want to know about Medical products, and Glen Dimplex the parent company of Lec, don’t quite have the infrastructure to hande the work themselves. Lec agents needn’t get excited either, as Glen Dimplex are starting a training programme, and will no doubt start doing doors and cosmetic bits themselves.
To fill the gap, I can see that possibly one of the above could get involved. However, MFI are in trouble, Glen Dimplex backed out, and forget Brit Gas, they are looking to hive it all off.
I wonder if there is anything in this to get excited about, somehow I don’t think so.
Alex
Re: Indesit IDL500(in the pink)
Probably a different density in the plastic components. We find with some machines the filters for example will turn pink, then the wheels stay a pristine white.
We used to get this on our Zanussi with the top basket feed funnel, the filter, and the lid of the dispenser, yet the wheels and basket attachments unaffected.
Dare I say this, as with a lot of things these days, built to a price, and quality somewhat compromised. You do mention the wash results, I presume it does get to temperature o.k. if not you would need a service call.
Alex
Re: ISDL Slow Payment
turbodry wrote:I’m still waiting for December invoices to be paid …. what do you mean by “up to date” If you send an invoice in 1st Jan, by their system, it can’t be paid before end of Feb …..
D & G can do it in 7 days.
I am paid up to 10 January. They always pay at the end of the Month. Yes it is over 30 days, and there is nothing out of the ordinary in that I’m sorry to say. If a company tells you their trading conditions means payments in up to 60 days, and you accept this, you have little choice.
I have some companies who I’m forced to put on stop at least twice a year, even Manufacturers; not the case with ISDA. Also don’t forget, they are awaiting payment themselves, whereas D&G and Manufacturers have total internal accounting. Maybe that is no excuse, but it is part of their cashflow.
D&G spoil us, we also enjoy having a settlement within a week.
Alex
Re: ISDL Slow Payment
They pay me once a Month without fail, and always up to date.
Never any delays or issues, never have to chase them.
Only complaint I have is they expect me to cover all eventualities on their work for 3 months in event of a recall.
Alex
Re: UK Whitegoods Meeting – Feb 06
Martin wrote:
Goatboy wrote:
What do you think the traffic is like at 9am on a Friday there? 🙁8 am is a better time to be in that location, 8:30 even will be OK for the most part. As the M42 is fully open I would’nt expect any delays unless the weather gets any worse that is?
Took me 2 hours 45 minutes last Thursday night to travel from NEC junction to the Bromsgrove interchange where the M42 joins the M5. My fault I usually cut across town along Hagley road and join the M5 at J3. As I left at 4.45 p.m. I stupidly thought it a bad idea to take the town route.
Those coming from the North West on Friday a.m. may as well take the new M6 toll road, and come into the NEC from behind.
Failing that, if coming Down from M6 N/West, come in from J6 of the old M6, Don’t head for town, but follow signs of the A38 east along the Tyburn Road. This is the Main Rd to Litchfield & the M6 runs parallel to you up on the right. Turn tright at Bromford Lane, Think it is a R/Bout, if not lights, and under the Motorway. Straight on up over the top, and drop down to large crossroads with lights & the Fox & Goose pub on the right, keep going straight on. Then follow your nose to the right around a strange one-way bit keeping right around an old building in the road, up past the retail park, Currys Comet & all that, (Stechford) past the leisure centr on the left, up and over the railway bridge. Station Rd, straight on at lights, (There is a police station on left, Bordesly Green Rd & Heartlands hospital up the road on the right) You don’t want to go there, keep going ahead up to a small R/Bout, take the second exit, sort of straight on, as you go along you will see there is a common on the right. That will take you up to the Swan R/Bout, hang a left, drop down and you are on the A45 heading towards the NEC with all the traffic going the other way.
Big tip, don’t go to the wrong Holiday Inn, there is a 1930’s one on the A45 just by the Airport Carpark, you need to go to the NEC itself, past the Crown plaza and keep to the right, that will take you towards Sutton Coldfield and the correct hotel.
Best of luck.
Alex
