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Re: Ted Won’t Let Me Post It!

And follow it shall, version 2……………….

Our first fixer in the story was promoted not long after the events took place to a “Sir” and so became known as “Sir Gobb Chite” and he was a champion for the fixers across the land, facing many obstacles, perilous journeys and evil overlords on his path. He also had suffer greatly to help others, heroes eh, who’d be one I ask you? I mean the job description isn’t exactly great, long hours, sacrifice for others, little recognition and a whole load of hassles as well as all the petty squabbling to deal with.

Anyway, on with the rest of the story…

Twas a dark day in Smelly Town after the fixer’s revolt had taken place. Old Grumpy Arse had fled in disgrace leaving behind his new German cart after being found out that he was creaming some of the taxes from the council for which he worked. Some of his fellow number had also fallen into disgrace and had been cast aside to suffer their individual fate.
Due to the fixer revolt Grumpy Co. had lost a major bit of work, it moved on to another overlord that appeared to be far kinder and fairer to the fixers, so the fixers were happier in their lives for the time being, being connected with the new overlord.

However, many fixers had still suffered great loss and pain through the despicable actions of Grumpy Arse and were not prepared to continue working for that fiefdom whatever was on offer.

Of course the demise of Grumpy Arse had not been without damage to this overlord’s overall business with the fixers, leaving them mortally wounded in terms of something to do as well as their reputation with all the other overlords and great makers being less than good. But they had a plan! A plan to turn it all around and restore their place with in the kingdom as a force to be reckoned with and not to be (PG remember ;)) with. So the fiefdom got a new overlord, which seemed a bit of a departure from the old one and she inherited the problems created by Grumpy Arse.

This new overlord decided that the best way to win the fixers back to their cause was to win their hearts and minds through propaganda and spin. What she hadn’t counted upon was that all the fixers were now wise to many of these tactics and she made mistakes at first, these were quickly pounced upon by some of the fixers for what they were, rubbish. The fixers still didn’t trust the overlord and they would not work under the conditions on offer as they had now had a taste of freedom.

But as well as this, Dragon’s Breath started to woo the leading members of the Fixer’s Council with tempting offers of repair nirvana making them pant at the thought of what was on offer.

Meanwhile Grumpy Arse was called before a court of peers but failed to show up on the grounds that he was unwell, rumours ran rife that he was a big scaredycat and had fiddled countless hundreds of thousands of gold coins on frivolous things over a long time. Not least was little holidays that he had been on and wining and dining people, but not the fixers who made it all possible. After all, if it wasn’t for the fixers where would Grumpy Arse have been?
So now the new overlord, politely called Dragon’s Breath in some circles, had been tasked with undoing the damage done by Grumpy Arse, no small task a challenge well worthy of a true disciple to the cause.

So after the first failed attempt at winning through subversion Dragon’s Breath went on to attempt to bribe some. She did this by offering many gold coins to the Fixers Council leaders in return for little services. But regardless of how you slice it, it was a bribe and some even took it thinking that they were doing good and showing forgiveness, but were they doing the other fixers any good we wonder?

But of course there wasn’t enough gold coins in the coffers to apply everyone a bribe and only the select few had been offered this, so another ploy had to be sought to get all the fixers back…

So Dragon’s Breath teamed up with one of the “Great Makers” this one was known as Eye-tie for some strange reason. Now Eye-tie had a reputation as a terrible maker to fix for but he had stuffed the fixers so much that they were sick of him and shunned his very presence, often even refusing to look at the makers machines at all, let alone fix them.
But Eye-tie and Dragon’s Breath were a match made in heaven, or hell, depends on your point of view in all this. And so an alliance was forged in this land between the two… but all was not well!

Eye-tie in this land had not sought permission from the Board to ally themselves with Dragon’s Breath and the Board had rather a lot to say about it, mostly “NO”! So they despatched their own envoy from a land far, far away who put an end to the alliance and, therefore, an end to Dragon’s Breath’s sneaky plans to get the fixers back. Of course this was a big slap in the face for Dragon’s Breath and she had to start conjuring up another plan and quickly.

Of course whilst all this is going on some of the fixers still had unpaid debts from Dragon Breath’s fiefdom and they were not at all pleased with the situation, some even had unpaid debt from Eye-tie as well. I’m sure you can imagine that these fixers, left with the burden of unpaid debts and not offered any bribes were less than happy. Some of the more enlightened fixers saw the dangers in this situation and that it could split the Fixers Council and cause great rifts amongst the Fixers but they chose to remain silent and let it all pan out.

Of course this is exactly the situation that Dragon’s Breath and her kind wish to see as it suits them to have the fixers all not talking, in fighting and at their mercy. Of course all this is possible by a simple bribe…

Of course many a similar tale has been told by many before through the passages of time and oft the moral has been “all that glitters is not gold”, slowly the fixers have all come to realise this, albeit too late for many that have perished over time, but finally a new dawning is there for all the fixers to see.

As for Dragon’s Breath, well there’s always breath freshener!

Work out the moral of this story.

[kwatt]

I don’t have the time, I do however have a very warped mind that’s full of crap you really don’t wanna know about! 😆

I always think it’s nice to revisit things you may have let slip from the mind every now and again and re-examine them, sometimes it works and sometimes it don’t.

I am working on this though, more to follow. 😉

K.

[kwatt]

Thanks, you have to look on the funny side of things every now and again. 😉

I’ll have a crack at part two in time maybe and introduce some new characters to the mix. 😆

K.

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When you have employees Martin there’s no point in asking, you just get a line of S-H-1-T! 😕

K.

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Re: Ted Won’t Let Me Post It!

Part 2 – A Rough Draft (Needs Work Yet)

Twas a dark day in Smelly Town after the fixer’s revolt had taken place. Old Grumpy Arse had fled in disgrace leaving behind his new German cart after being found out that he was creaming some of the taxes from the council for which he worked. Some of his fellow number had also fallen into disgrace and had been cast aside to suffer their individual fate.
Due to the fixer revolt Grumpy Co. had lost a major bit of work, it moved on to another overlord that appeared to be far kinder and fairer to the fixers, so the fixers were happier in their lives for the time being.
Of course the demise of Grumpy Arse had not been without damage to this overlord’s overall business with the fixers, leaving them mortally wounded in terms of something to do as well as their reputation with all the other overlords being less than good. But they had a plan! A plan to turn it all around and restore their place with in the kingdom as a force to be reckoned with and not to be (PG remember ;)) with. So the Co. got a new overlord, which seemed a bit of a departure from the old one and she inherited the problems created by Grumpy Arse.
This new overlord decided that the best way to win the fixers back to their cause was to win their hearts and minds through propaganda and spin. What she hadn’t counted upon was that all the fixers were now wise to many of these tactics and she made mistakes at first, these were quickly pounced upon by some of the fixers for what they were, rubbish. The fixers still didn’t trust the overlord and they would not work under the conditions on offer as they had now had a taste of freedom.
Meanwhile Grumpy Arse was called before a court of peers but failed to show up on the grounds that he was unwell, rumours ran rife that he was a big scaredycat and had fiddled countless thousands of gold coins on frivolous things over a long time. Not least was little holidays that he had been on and wining and dining people, but not the fixers who made it all possible. After all, if it wasn’t for the fixers where would Grumpy Arse have been?
So now the new overlord, politely called Dragon’s Breath in some circles, had been tasked with undoing the damage done by Grumpy Arse, no small task a challenge well worthy of a true disciple to the cause.
So after the first failed attempt at winning through subversion Dragon’s Breath went on to attempt to bribe some. She did this by offering many gold coins to the Fixers Council leaders in return for little services. But regardless of how you slice it, it was a bribe and some even took it thinking that they were doing good and showing forgiveness, but were they doing the other fixers any good we wonder?
But of course there wasn’t enough gold coins in the coffers to apply everyone a bribe, so another ploy had to be sought to get all the fixers back…
So Dragon’s Breath teamed up with one of the “Great Makers” this one was known as Eye-tie for some strange reason. Now Eye-tie had a reputation as a terrible maker to fix for but he had stuffed the fixers so much that they were sick of him and shunned his very presence, often even refusing to look at the makers machines at all, let alone fix them.
But Eye-tie and Dragon’s Breath were a match made in heaven, or hell, depends on your point of view in all this. And so an alliance was forged in this land between the two… but all was not well!
Eye-tie in this land had not sought permission from the Board to ally themselves with Dragon’s Breath and the Board had rather a lot to say about it, mostly “NO”! So they despatched their own envoy from a land far, far away who put an end to the alliance and, therefore, an end to Dragon’s Breath’s sneaky plans to get the fixers back.

[kwatt]

I’ve been doing it for months now as I was on the trial and there’s no problems with it John. 😉

K.

[kwatt]

:rotfl:

K.

[kwatt]

Or Dave should be able to get spares for Scholtes. 😉

K.

[kwatt]

Re: Sholtes T62G gas hob ignition ignitor block

Nope I have never seen one like that and it looks shaped to fit the odd control panel arrangement as well so it would be a tough one to get an alternative in there.

K.

[kwatt]

It’s something I’ll revisit in 6 months or so Martin, I need more information and a few things to all into place first. 😉

K.

[kwatt]

No, I’m afraid not, there’s no way to make it work in the environment.

K.

[kwatt]

You are correct, most modern cabinets operate with the use of a single stat/compressor as they are cheaper to manufacture. The downside is that if one fails, both do.

In this instance the thermostat will probably kick the compressor in at +5oC or thereabouts as it will be a wet-wall self defrosting fridge so, when the ambient drops below 5oC the thermostat thinks it’s cold enough already and does not kick in the compressor.

There is no cure, the machine has to be situated in a heated room I’m afraid within the recommended temperature ranges by the manufacturer or it won’t work.

We get a slew of these every winter. 😕

K.

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Re: Press Release – e-Jobs

The e-Jobs module is undergoing final testing, all the code is now written, for it’s initial release.

For now we have to manually enter on all the postcode, manufacturer and skillset information and upload it to the database. On the form in the PDF Downloads it asks for the manufacturers that you cover, “all” or “any” is not a good enough answer I’m afraid for the most part as the idea is to target the work to the stuff that you actually want to do. There is a blanket code, but do you really want to repair a Beko or Teba?

The phone number on the form is an 0870 number, that means a national rate call so, for almost everyone, faxing it back to be would have exactly the same cost involved. However, this is converted to an electronic format so we can deal with it far better as well as keep a record electronically.

If you’ve not submitted the form yet then please do so if you want the chance at some chargeable work, for free!

K.

[kwatt]

Just a reminder, e-Jobs will go live very soon, if you’ve not sent us in the form then please do so ASAP as we are going to be installing the module next week by the looks of things.

K.

[kwatt]

Ah, this is a long-term project P, if we have our own means of doing this then the cost comes down over a longer period. As well as having the flexability to do and change what we want, when we want at little cost.

K.

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