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Bumping, since still not sure what the right answer is – hood extraction rates seem to vary widely from 250-650 m3/hour so am wondering would a 90cm hood at the upper end of this range do as good a job as the 100cm hood with less extraction power?

Thanks

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Re: 100cm cooker – do we need a 100cm hood?

Point taken. The reason I even felt brave enough to query this was because Aga sell a’Masterchef Hood’ which is 90cm wide, for a 100cm cooker. And it doesn’t have all enveloping glass bits round the edge to cover the gap.
So if it’s ok for Aga, is it ok for me?

Thanks again

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Re: 100cm cooker – do we need a 100cm hood?

Martin – looking at some of the hoods available i.e. the ones with glass round the edge, the area that actually extracts is less than the total hood area, but I presume the good ones have more suction power to compensate for this. So if we got a kickarse 90cm hood, would this be as good as having a weedier but wider 100cm? (we will be ducting, luckily it’ll be on an outside wall)

WSTS – thanks for that, I agree re falcon!

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Re: Hotpoint WMA 32 – should suspension leg be attached to d

That’s it Jim – that’s what my legs look like – so we need a couple of plastic pins and a lot of huffing and puffing by the looks of it. I will attempt to convince my OH that it’s worth doing. He’s fairly robust, so should be able to help.

Thanks both for your help. Wish us luck!

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Re: Hotpoint WMA 32 – should suspension leg be attached to d

I’m a little unclear as to where these would go – do you fix them in between the legs on the bottom of the machine and the drum, and hence need a pin for each end? Or are you suggesting we replace the existing legs with these ones? The piston-type legs in this picture are not the same as the ones attached to the bottom of our machine – they’re a fixed length, and white, and do look more like the picture I linked to.

Sorry I’m asking lots of questions, but you can’t see how big these parts are from the image., and it doesn’t look as though the gap between the legs we’ve got and the fixings on the drum is very big.

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Re: Hotpoint WMA 32 – should suspension leg be attached to d

Don’t worry I haven’t gone off and bought them – they’re the nearest looking thing I could find.

The fixings on the drum look pretty intact, the fixings on the end of the leg look intact, the legs there just isn’t anything joining them together – what I’m trying to establish is was there ever? If yes, can we fix it? is it hard?

you’ve been very helpful so far, don’t give up on me yet!

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Re: Hotpoint WMA 32 – should suspension leg be attached to d

In the sense that there are no ‘pivot pins’ i.e. there’s nothing attaching the legs to the drum, then yes. I didn’t realise there should be any pivot pins until I started googling a bit. The legs I’m talking about look pretty much like this:
Hotpoint Suspension Parts – HPT1603295 on
http://shop.ezee-fix.co.uk/Spare_Parts_ … _1170.html

at the moment they’re just sticking up from the bottom of the machine, not fixed to anything.

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Re: Hotpoint WMA 32 – should suspension leg be attached to d

Nothing seems ‘broken’ i.e. no jagged edges – Is it possible that both dampers popped out when we were lugging the machine around? It sounds as though I’m on the right track anyway, do you know whether these would be simple to replace?
Thanks

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