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Phewww!!!
I thought that post might have pushed the boundaries of our friendship and sweated on it for a while.
Hope the joke I left in the post above didn’t offend anyone.
You never know peoples circumstances however I’m sure you’d edit if required.
I did a post as no-one had answered two of the enquirers posts.
When I hit the submit I found Martin had posted so I withdrew and PM’ed the following to Martin.
I was rather embarrassed with my post however here goes what I sent to martin.PM to Martin
I was asked to run a marathon, I said, “Piss off”.
They said come on, it’s for spastics and blind kids.
Then I thought, fuck it, I could win this.Also the post I withdrew was:-
Unfortunately we can only advise you on what the fault may be.
To advise you how to replace the bearings puts us a risk of litigation
It causes us to assume your level of experience which off course we can’t do
In fact the word Assume is made up of the letters arranged thus
ASS-U-ME
For me to ASSUME your level of experience would definitely make an ASS of U and/or ME.
For me or any other engineer to instruct you would certainly cause us to wrongly estimate your skills.
There is no way we can judge your skills without overseeing you perform hundreds of jobs
For us to assume anything would could lead to serious consequences so we have to assume nothing and leave you to your own devices
Because of the quality of todays appliances, most appliances now have many risks including:
1/. Unswitched live wires
2/. Devices that store a lethal current even when the power is disconnected
3/. Edges of metal that are Razor sharp
We too are exposed to the same income threatening problems but experience and endless training has prepared us.
I once had a customer who was a professional musician
He was an oboist in the National Orchestra.
He made his living at this
He proceeded to repair an appliance and nearly severed his finger on a Razor sharp stainless steel edge.This gentleman spent 3 months of work without income and was lucky to return to his profession.
My advice to you:
1/. Your health is not worth it
2/. You wealth is not worth it
3/. Call Repairs @
or if you think I’m only giving you the run around
Call the manufacturer and book their service
You may say we are only saying this to protect our income by having a technician do your work however that is not the agenda.
Read in our new stories of families who have lost the bread winner if you don’t believe me
We are just avoiding messy litigation and horror of horror, you injuring yourself possibly even fatally.
Sorry to be blunt but
A spade is a spade is a spade is a spadeBit rough eh??
The reason I withdrew it was that it was too crass?.
It also would have gone against what I later found in the Articles & Help section.
I had finally followed some of the links as posted in the forums that direct guests to the individual contents of the Articles and Help area. http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/modules.p … ge&pid=102.
In this help area and in many of the posts you guys instruct people to “Do It Yourself”, which, in my opinion, is a recipe for disaster not to mention a revenue loss for engineers in Repairs@. I tend to leave it to pointing out the fault.Not the end of the PM but enough for this Forum as Craig has re-inforced my thoughts on this subject.
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With Hoover Front loaders that have lost their inner race and the outer race is flush with the housing so you can’t get a drift on it, I get a stick welder and give a three good dollops of weld to the inside of the outer race at 120 degrees apart.
This heats the outer race and breaks its seal with the housing.
It also cracks the outer race so that it can come out in pieces.
It also gives a bit of metal on which a drift can obtain a puchase.
The diecasting doesn’t mind a bit.
Don’t think I’ll get out of bed tomorrow.
Too many little hitlers running around in uniforms.
And I thought we won the war.
A Sydney train commuter was fined $200 by the little hitlers because he was “running on the platform”.
If it was on TV it has to be true. I seen the ticket (on TV)
I feel like starting a new topic “1001 ways the Government could tax you” however I fear they are reading this site and would get too many ideas.
Like:
Dangerous goods certificate @ $100 required to carry petroleum products in fuel tank of vehicle
Noise pollution meter on horn @ $100 a parp
Light pollution meter after hours @ $100 / hour
Exhaust must be collected and disposed of in recycling centre @ $’s
Smoke detector in every vehicle
Vehicle certified each year as to danger to public health
A person must walk in the front of each vehicle with a load hailer signifying approach of said vehiclekheath wrote:Its very likely the weee directive will qualify ownership of the used spare that you remove from an appliance.
The customer always retains ownership of the parts that come out of the machine that he/she owns.
We dispose of them for, primarily asthetic, then safety, then training purposes, and sometimes to recondition.
The slow turnover parts that we have removed we retain for three months in case the customer asks for them back. (whether they get “their” part or not is sometimes open to debate). If we don’t give them back we could and have had a proposed “theft” charge levelled against uskheath wrote:The weee directive will have huge impact on us, increase red tape, increase admin, increase costs and the real kicker is the consumer is not to be financially burdened by any of it, legally.
The consumer always pays.
I’m sick of being told that costs have to be absorbed!
How??????
There’s no blood in this stone.One of the reasons I got out of the electrical trade is that they legislated that you are responsible for the whole installation if you added to or altered any fixed wiring.
1/. As my x-ray vision was failing (old age), I was no longer able to look through walls floors and ceilings to see potentially dodgy wiring or it’s imminent failure so I felt I couldn’t comply with legislation
2/. As my acute hearing was failing (too much pink floyd), I was no longer able to hear through walls floor and ceilings to hear potentially dodgy wiring or it’s immenent failure so I felt I couldn’t comply with legislation
3/. As my acute touch was failing (too much stoking womens thighs), I was no longer able to feel through walls floor and ceilings to feel potentially dodgy wiring or it’s imminent failure so I felt I couldn’t comply with legislation
4/. As my acute smell was failing (too much smelling fine wine), I was no longer able to smell through walls floor and ceilings to smell potentially dodgy wiring or its imminent failure so I felt I couldn’t comply with legislation
5/. As my acute taste was failing (too much tasting fine food), I was no longer able to taste through walls floor and ceilings to taste potentially dodgy wiring or it’s imminent failure so I felt I couldn’t comply with
legislation.6/. As my crystal ball was broken (too much lottery number gazing), I was no longer able to predict the future to forsee potentially dodgy wiring or it’s iminent failure so I felt I couldn’t comply with legislation.
And you wonder why people become cowboys
Re: F&P 085
peeved wrote:
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
My e mail is as follows: ananda@kooee.com.au or failing that :
ananda_brown@yahoo.es
I can sense a happy ending to all this.
Thanks again.Have sent you the faultcode readouts.
Level 3 when slow spin and spin hold are lit is the important code
Forget the catalogue spares
That’s thousand of Pounds to set up, and thousands of Pounds to maintain.
It’s not your core business
It will distract you from your current main aims..which are?????????Do a default KISS solution with spares as suggested just to capture extra enquiries
They could Phone/PM a friend (Dave @/Spares@)
(User friendly as well)Speaking of AIMS! well I am anyway
Have you done this web site out of reacting to circumstances
or are you planning to:
Get on the front foot and drive the issuesIs it top secret?
or:
Where is your plan?
Where are you goals?
What do you want to achieve?
I would have thought you would have had a listelse:
Being philanthropic requires money
I would have thought your main aim is to “Control the world” (Bit of Doctor Evil there).
Well at least to control your worldIf you were/are excited as I were about this web site as I am and lose sleep thinking about the possibilities then until you bring me down to earth saying that “it’s all just philantropic” or I’ll continue to be a thorn in your side.
Kicking me off would be your only other solution.
Don’t reduce my esteem for you by demeaning you achievements to date
but we need
but that requires
.
ie “But” is such an awful word and should never be used in a sentence let alone conjoin sentences.
Can always tell me to F off (then a smiley face if it’s tongue in cheek)
I appreciate that my timing may always be out so no reply is better than giving me an intro to continuing the threadI always like the last word
KISS
No I haven’t missed you.
just “Keep it Simple Stupid”
As penguin saysShop@” to “Spares@? Just Ask!”
Phone number to suit and bang
Extra spares enquiries with very little work.
CraigybellI plumped for the most user friendly
I realize the pressure you guys are under and I didn’t mean to increase that. I just saw a problem, brought it to your attention, offered suggestions
Shop@ should be Spares@
Phone numbers should be with Spares@ not a screen scroll away from Shop@/Spares@ in the Information Panel
Spares@ should be on the Navigation Panel
Spares@, Spares@Categories and Repairs@ should be up the top of the front page (this is a money making enterprise isn’t it)
Or “If you register here then you can Message Spares direct” (Dave-Conway or preferably as Spares member)
A method of a PM from the front page I guess wouldn’t be possible?All the bells and whistles are not justifed/economic but the current errors where not helping.
I’m gunna put the Spares link & Phone number on my tag line to assist exposure.
