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Re: Bosch SGS56E02 – worth repairing?

gegsy wrote:All I can think of is that the Germans mean scrape the food off with a cloth; perhaps a translation mixup, it happens 😀

Greg

Damn those Germans! (no, not really).

Thanks to everyone who has replied with advice (or even to chastise me for not rinsing my dishes properly) – much appreciated.

[cmc]

Re: Bosch SGS56E02 – worth repairing?

…well of course I’ve been scraping the big bits off….. 😆

So maybe a quick rinse is in order too from now on…..

[cmc]

Re: Bosch SGS56E02 – worth repairing?

Penguin45 wrote:Is it totally impossible to build customers who read, understand and follow the instruction manual? A far more valid point.

I apologise to cmc, our original poster, but this one is self-inflicted – quite regularly if you follow these forums. The failure of the average user to pre-rinse heavy deposits off their crockery, especially fat rich sauces, is almost endemic.
Penguin45.

Well, to a certain point……the instructions for this particular machine explicitly state that you DON’T need to wash any food deposits off before placing the dishes in the machine…..

However, in retrospect I concede that I should at least have used one of the de-greasing treatments on a regular basis…… 😳

[cmc]

Re: Bosch SGS56E02 – worth repairing?

Ah, okay. Forgive my ignorance – becuase some of the new ones on sale listed it specifically as if it was a great selling point, I assumed the others didn’t have it…….

I spoke to an engineer who didn’t cover my area, but kindly dispensed some further advice (ie: pour some very hot water in and insert a length of tube along the water hose (from inside the machine) to clear out any gunk).

I didn’t have a length of tube of an appropriate diameter, but a length of coax aerial wire did the job admirably. After freeing up various bits of cack, I decided to take the side panel off the machine to get a better look at what was going on. I could see that I was moving a build-up of grease from the pipe, specifically at the end of it where it reaches a small chamber which has a red plastic float valve alongside it. (This is at the bottom of the large flat water tank on the side of the machine – I don’t know what this part is called – I should have got a photo of it while I had the machine apart….).

I couldn’t free up all of the grease from within this bit, but obviously had moved enough from elsewhere that everything appears to be working okay at the moment. I’ve run the machine for 3 days since and it seems fine, and I put one of these grease/limescale removal bottles through a 70C wash last night in the hope that this would help further.

Would you expect this to be a (reasonably) permanent fix to the problem? Although I’m planning to use one of the de-greasing/cleaning bottles every month or so from now on, I’m not sure how effective it will be given that the original blockage was back near the bottom of the water tank? Although it’s working well at the moment, I’m concerned that as I didn’t get 100{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of the gunk out it might reoffend in the future……..

Thanks for any advice on the matter.

[cmc]

Re: Bosch SGS56E02 – worth repairing?

Thanks for the reply – I didn’t think that this model had an anti-flood device though. Is this a standard feature?

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