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Re: oven temp regulation tolerance

Thanks for that Kwatt. 🙂

OK, I’ll conclude :

The temperature sensor is working.

The mean temp at setting 35 C for dough rising is inadequate, and always will be too slow to start with in the winter.

I can set to oven min setting 50 C to begin with and let it cool to dough setting 35 C…which helps (set to constant 50 would kill the yeast).

For other cooking, I use an interior oven thermo, it’s OK – I could get a better one, (1 in a 1,000).

Overall, electronic technology is enticing, but I got best results with an enamelled open fire/oven Rayburn back in the seventies, and they are easier to regulate.

The rayburn had a kindling shelf , which was good for warming dough as well.

A bar above the kindling shelf was great for drying socks-something modern ovens lack 🙁

My grandma got the last new one in the UK, in 1974 after her old cracked after 50 years – so I cant have one

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Temperature tolerance and calibration

Thanks Samuari .
Exactly the kind of confirmation I was seeking 🙂
This is a temperature sensor, but I supppose the same applies to calibration.

10{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} out on 35 degrees is only 3-4 degrees either way; perhaps I would be better off with a new temperature sensor? But do they deteriorate in performance or just go right out of whack all of a sudden, I wonder? ❓

The trouble is its useless for dough rising with this performance.

➡ I did find out that set at 60 degrees C, it is 15 degrees out, which I suspect is about the performance throughout the range, judging by my cooking results, and compensations (by setting a higher temperature). So, it seems fairly uniform.

Could I have a stab at calibration…? I am technically highly competent mechanically and electronically, but I could use some pointers for the model/board…to identify the component and pin outputs. I could apply known water temperatures to the sensor, and watch it cut out switch on and off.

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Re: bearings baumatic wd12

thank you tim.

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Re: running washer dryer with dryer timer disengaged

oh, the cranky idea is that the timer is shorting out the machine due to contamination of spilt soy sauce (a whole lot) and whilst it is one special order, the machine might be run with the timer disengaged.

anyway, do you think it would affect the motor cylces?

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OK to bypass the capacitor for a test?, I think so.

BTW, is it OK to bypass the capacitor for a test, I think so.

I traced the short back to the live lead out from the capacitor, and there was a little smoke dust on the lead by te capacitor. Meanwhile I cleaned up all other switch contacts real well, including the pressure switch, and tested the door interlock switch as well.

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Re: philco washer dryer wd 2002s door switch

Many thanks, seems a good price too. how about a capacitor for the same machine?

ps. wha i’ll do is ask in my email, sorry, thanks again.

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Re: quality pre 1998 machines and scams?

Martin wrote:I wouldn’t waste your money or risk your life on this aged Philco my friend 🙄 The residents of that council flat in Peckham had the right idea, you should follow their lead 😉

Thanks for the reply. May i challenge that, without offence, take it a bit further:

The machine has served our family, since i found it, very well indeed without need for repair for six years. I’m talking three washes a week minimum, drying for some intense periods, and periods of when I did about one hundred washes a week for cleaning up, when my boy was born with eczema. Only the removals company caused a problem with spillage. For the sake of a capacitor, i should what, buy a new machine? Fix this Servis with a blown capacitor I’ve spotted?

But the Servis is warned against here on this post (i think if not somewhere else on the forum.
I can see quality in the Philco. A stainless inner and outer drum. Care for wool etc. It is stable, and the components well set out. The components look real good. It is mint looking inside. The hoses look new. Even the ballast weight looks quality casting. As regards, cast iron and the Miele, I like cast iron for all sorts, especially log burners. But concrete is a lovely material. There is quality workmanship in concrete too.

The Servis looks real nasty cheap stuff. The Philco’s top board is knackered now, but I can cut some new board anyway.

Any other thoughts?

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quality pre 1998 machines and scams?

Thanks for the great discussion which echoes what i notice with my strange experiences, a person ( new here) who has repaired his own washig machines (second hand ones first time, otherwise dumped outside houses) since 1993, and never bought a new one.
The first was a hoover or a hotpoint. I went through both, anyway. I worked for two weeks or so with a washing machine repair team in peckham indoor market, and quickly learnt the ropes (all basics of testing , falt finding, and servicing). (unfortunately i was badly injured just then, and an invalid for a few years).

Is this an example of a pre 1998 quality machine? …Now i have a philco wd 2002s, had it since 2000, also picked up outside a council flat in peckham.Probably had a blocked pump i think. the capicitor just shorted. It seems a quality machinenot sure why, exactly, but may have been because a whole bottle of soy sauce was spilt into the electrics whilst it was being moved back from wales to london, and then stored for three months. I cleaned up the terminals carefully and it started, but the capacitor blew, and only the dryer works. I have no manual and never fixed wd’s before. I intend to order a new part this week.

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