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Or every engineer’s pet hate on integrated appliances, stupid, stupid plastic legs that break the second you look at them wrongly!
K.
Tony,
A couple of the guys on here have seen the beast and taken it apart, they may be able to help out.. Lawrence even gave us some pictures that you’ll find in the gallery.
K.
Hi Fiona,
The part number of the element 77X6400 and is £29.85 excl VAT and carrisge. If you drop Dave an email he can order one for you.
K.
Re: Diplomat ADP 8132 Dishwasher – Faulty Door Switch
Door lock is part number 697690139 and is £7.99 excl VAT. The front panel, the plastic fascia, is part number 763735661 and is £14.74.
Both prices exclude VAT and carriage obviously.
Hope that helps.
K.
Re: servis caress 1600 ‘a’
Bill,
You nailed the problem with: “spin at 1600rpm”
At that speed you have to remember that a wet towel, for example, in the machine on its own will excert a massive force and if it bunches into one section then the drum will oscillate causing vibration. Very often this is enough to make the appliance appear to “bounce”.
Now that excessive vibtration has to either be eliminated, by the use of a OOB or ABC control method or dampened correctly using proper dampers and weights on the drum to bring it down to an acceptable level. Most decent German machines and Asko, a Swedish machine, dampen vibration very well as do some others. Sadly Servis do not as they are at the lower end of the market and therefore are produced to a price, not a specification. Many other high spin speed but not so great quality appliances will perform likewise.
The problem gets still worse when, as we have mostly in the UK, the appliance is on a wooden floor as that only serves very often to amplify the excessive vibration off the appliance.
I’m afraid it’s a problem as you get higher and higher spin speeds and, IMO, the cons outweigh the pros by a huge margin of having such high speed spins.
It may also interest you to know that, despite what Servis tell you, they upgraded a load of the appliances spin speeds at one stage and yet did not upgrade the bearings, in many cases the only real difference was the control module internally. Needless to say we see quite a few with bearings failed. 😕
K.
Re: Why Subscribe To UK Whitegoods?
Thanks guys, I was starting to think I was doing summat wrong. 😕
Kev, was that the green shirt that Bridie keeps telling you to get shot off, you know, the one with the rum & coke stains all down it (the other stains I’m not even gonna guess at!) :rotfl:
Sean, you know when you put it like that UKW is damn cheap! 😆
I have taken the “fag packet” approach, maybe it’s wrong but I still strongly believe in the approach that I take with UKW even over a year into the site becoming pretty popular. I also still strongly believe that a lot of what is done here should remian, dare I say it, free. Not just financially, but pretty much from constraint as well other that the “be nice” caveat. So far it seems to have worked and as any good repairer (or fixer ;)) knows, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
John, you seldom miss… nuff said. 😉
Sparkey, you’ll have a reference in the morning once I get to a PC with the current info on it.
K.
Re: matrix
kheath wrote:Bet its built in, label on the back, hoses too short, tiles too high, grouted in and stood on bricks……(anyone think of anything else?) 😆
Plinth nailed or siliconed into place.
Soft vinyl in front of it!
Screws through the sides from the adjacent cupboards! (Yes, I have seen it!)
I could probably come up with more, but it’s late. 😉
K.
It makes a HUGE difference in many cases as a lot of the time a “bad smell from the washing machine” is the customer using liquid detergents. It is extremely easy to overdose using it and the residue left that cannot dissolve properly eventually congeales forming a not too nice gunk in the washer. And it stinks!
K.
There’s no Lux codes listed one here for it Inge but I can’t see them being any different to the UK ones. One of the nice Electrolux agents may be able to oblige butit will only give a general direction of where the faultmay lie.
K.
Re: Oi, stop it!
WTF!
Look it was a glib comment or two, that was it! It was taken to heart as being too close to the bone and the result is we’re at each other’s throats, great result that is.
Why don’t we all just chill out a little on this. The whole thing was spawned from what is now obviously a partial bit of the story being voiced in some camps and not reported on fully. Probably dropped in conversation, picked up and ran with as the “scoop” and no doubt as it was a “DASA fights with itself” thing was zealously pursued. I mean, let’s face it, there isn’t exactly a shortage of people that like to slag DASA off given half a chance, any one of them getting a hold of something like that could have a field day.
You also have to bear in mind that to a degree you have a “hawks & doves” type situation within DASA, some pro the new DASA, most of them in here and the old guard that believes in a lot of that which Chris put in place as well as the rhetoric that went with it. So there are those that may well have thought that the story getting out would have served their own agenda within DASA. That’s what happens when you start playing politics.
Word gets back to Kev, along with several other stories and the whole lot gets rattled up in one go. I’m sure Merloni is pissed off as well at the snippet about them too. I know that one WP was scurrying around after it trying to find out is someone was leaving them as well after that post, so it wasn’t just DASA that got a slap.
I stand by my original comment though, it should have been left alone, by gobbing off matters were only made worse as it was so cryptic unless you knew what was going off it didn’t really say that much. Cest la vie. 🙄
As to UKW being tarnished due this, maybe. But then you can’t always choose when it does and doesn’t suit you for information to be released or indeed if. Also as above, I’m sure there is a queue of people pissed off that some of their cats have been let out the bag over the past year. Thus far Lux and DASA have really come off pretty lightly all things considered, bar the odd mild poke now and then.
The best thing to do now is for us ALL to just leave it alone, let it fizzle out and hope that it just dies a death.
Now can we PLEASE talk about something else now, like the weather or the news or some bloody thing except friggin’ DASA?!! 😆
K.
