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Re: diplomat8132 intermitant fault
Okay Myke, this is an E2 error which can be no less than one of 12 faults, although most likely to be a side chamber issue. In all honesty it’s not a job for the DIYer as the sides need stripped and the chamber cleaned or replaced depending on how serious it is if that is indeed the problem.
There is a pressure switch as well as a safety device for anti-flood protection but much of the fill system is to do with the fill chamber.
Wiring diagrams we are not allowed to handout sadly without written consent from the manufacturer or the powers that be in this case. 🙁
I can tell you that the machine is actually manufactured by Smeg so it’s not a bad machine really. 😉
K.
Re: DASA
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Well wouldn’t that just be such fun!
I knew that associate members paid a lot less, or at least I recently found that out and it still baffles me why, say Electrolux a huge corporation, pays less then I do to be associated to DASA. It is however worth pointing out that that is a legacy left to the current council from days of old.
The DASA Constitution needs changing for sure, but that’s not a change that I was thinking on. It would certainly make a mockery of anything that the council recommended to members in the way of contracts and the likes as that body could no longer claim to be impartial, nor could it claim to represent the independent repairers if the council is staffed by representatives from manufacturers and the likes. I do not disagree that more interaction is required with the manufacturers and WP’setc. but I would not have seen this as a way to accomplish that goal.
The outcome of that debate should be telling indeed.
K.
Some of those ideas have already been put into play or discussed here Richard with a view to using them for e-Jobs etc. 😉
K.
Re: diplomat8132 intermitant fault
Sorry, I missed this one. 😳
The fault described points to an E2 or similar from memory but I or Dave will answer it fully in the morning.
K.
Yes, I don’t really do (or want to do) spares sales so I generally direct them here. They get better service from here than many a spares company. 😉
K.
Re: DASA
It is sad to see two long standing DASA members at the point of throwing in the towel, but I can understand where they are coming from here.
When I got NW rejected after LGS went to the wall I was told that our membership could not be continued, it was taken to council and even although NW had been a trading name for a division of LGS that was a fully paid up DASA member, the membership had to be terminated. So we traded for nigh on four years before I was asked to rejoin DASA a couple of years ago. So in effect I’d done the probation without actually doing the probation. However, that’s not the important part, the important part is that for those years that we were outside of DASA I noticed absolutely no difference whatsoever. I was also more than a little miffed at the whole affair and how it all happened, but that’s a story for another day perhaps.
What we should really be paying attention to is the fact that people are leaving DASA or simply letting it go, as have been highlighted by Appboy and Alex in this thread thus far. Obviously they regard it as not being important to their businesses, or maybe its that they can see no return on the investment year on year. Like any person in business I too look for the return, if someone asks me to spend on advertising I can see a result, if I buy new IT, vans or whatever, I see the benefit in it people (I think) merely want DASA quantified the same way. Show the benefit.
If there is no benefit, then frankly, there is no point in it and people that are in business will not invest the time and finances into the endeavour.
There is, to me, little point in the old rhetoric of what DASA may do at some point as that is what we’ve heard from DASA for years and the status quo remains. Any radical new directions seem to get killed at birth, if they’re not still born, just look at Network DASA. What it may do is irrelevant, we have to show people what DASA DOES!
If that is merely to set and maintain standards, attach a value to it and see if people will pay it. But I doubt that will go very far as it just won’t fly in this day and age, it has to do better than that.
Training and that whole notion is IMHO a total waste of time right now, that’s putting the cart before the horse as far as I am concerned and trying to institute courses with the educational establishments is just plain crazy on so many levels. We’ve all seen and witnessed this trade, you can’t learn 90{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of it in a classroom, it’s a “hands on” job I’m afraid. Commercial reality also creeps in here, hands up those that can afford to pay for this training! Even with that aside, who’s going to recognise these awards or reward them? The only thing that gets you a higher salary in this game is a CORGI ticket.
Does a DASA member get paid any more for being better, no!
Do you get more leads for work, maybe, the jury’s out on that one.
Please don’t take this post the wrong way, I’m not trying to kill DASA at all but all involved have to sit down and seriously think about it long and hard. Just what benefits is DASA going to bring to the table, can it compete with the likes of the FSB and RETRA?
All things are possible, including a rebirth of DASA but as far as I can see it’s suffered from years of neglect and apathy from both inside and out running around in all sorts of directions trying to find its way or niche with very limited success. It needs goals and direction to achieve them and, it needs them quickly.
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Probably adware, get Ad-Aware from Lavasoft, it’s a free download and that should get rid of it for you.
K.
I had planned to do a little thing in the irectories Martin as that’s doable, just a bit of graphics work and some coding. Beyond that you start to mess with the actual PHP code for the site, I shudder in horror at the very thought these days. 😉
K.
Not without a whole lotta coding Martin and possibly upsetting the security and reliability of the forums, which kinda puts me off the notion of messing with it. Don’t fix what ain’t broke, you should know that one. 😉
K.
Clive, to be honest if you’re struggling at that stage I’d have to recommend that you call someone in to get a look at it for you. Those cookers aren’t difficult to work on really, but they area total pain the way you get into them. 😕
K.
In all honesty, you’ve got little to no chance I think. 🙁
The best you could probably do is find a “best match” by looking around the kitchen resellers.
K.
Technically, I don’t see any reason why not so long as each is in its own housing. Bear in mind though that you will end up, with the carcasses, with just over 1200mm and most 5 burner hobs are 700 or 900mm so it may be an idea to look at a domino gridle or something to make it look a bit better.
K.
Have a look at CDA (http://www.cda-europe.com) as we’ve got quite a few sites up here and have very few issues with the appliances and they should have something to come within your budget.
K.
The most expensive cock up…
Being virtually reliant on a single manufacturer to put bread on the table and thinking we were safe.
Won’t make that mistake again either. 😉
K.
