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Alex,
They’re all getting plastered at Jason’s party tonight so don’t expect an answer till Monday at best.
K.
Gary,
It’s a known issue with some ISP’s. I think its the same as the AOL issue where you have to set UKW as a trusted site in your browser and that should cure it.
Don’t ask us why or how this happened, it just happened one day. 🙁
K.
Na Martin I use it cause it is almost impervious to heat and I use it on damper pads, oven hinges etc. anyway. But I started using it because of the old Candy centrifrugal (sp?) pulley system, it just sems to do the job without any problems and it can be used most sparingly.
Been doing it for 20 years with no issues so I’m guessing it’s pretty much okay. 😉
K.
The machine is sold by MFI in the UK.
You can contact them on 0845 7959 722
There’s a few things that could cause the error, heater, stats or even the timer/PCB itself.
Hope that helps.
K.
Normally an oven door is customer removable for service easily.
Pull down the door and look at the hinges. You should see a small “U” type clip that will pull up normally into a kind of formed catch on the actual arm of the hinge. Flick the clip up and it should go into that stopping the hinge from effectively moving.
Repeat on the other side.
Then lift the door up slowly and it should just lift off with the hinges still in the open position. Normally there’s a lower little locating arm that has a notch in it, that locates into the hinge reciever when you put the door back on. It’s pretty plain if you’ve got it right though and normally you’ll feel it locking into place easily.
Hope that helps.
K.
Re: Shop@
APG wrote:If it works, it works. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t but worth a try.
Fair enough. 😀
APG wrote:You are right about the engineer side of things. If they don’t want to do the job, i’ll go out and do it. London is only 35 minutes away on the new A13 and by the time they’ve thought about doing the job, I would have done it, got home and boiled the kettle. Attitudes have changed. They want to earn loads of money but do not want to work for it. For some reason they leave school thinking they will walk right into a 30K a year job and have never heard of the words TRAINING or APPRENTICESHIP.
Yep, getting engineers is a real problem and something that has been preying on my mind of late a fair old bit.
I have said for a long time now, but I’ll slap it here in public now, that we can offer all the training in the world, we can offer a career, we can offer vans or anything we like. But, if the money isn’t good enough and the career doesn’t look stable enough then no-one is going to come into and stick with the industry, it’s that simple and we cannot offer salaries that compete with other, comparable, industries.
It’s not well paid at all and, beyond that, you have to crawl about on people’s sticky, greasy floors retriving their knickers and other assorted detriement from pumps etc or fiddle in their smelly ovens/fridges etc. Hardly an appealing career option is it?
Don’t believe me, just look at plumbers, joiners, brickies etc. most of whom are earning £25K+ on average and most are over £30K whilst this industry languishes with salaries, usually at best, in the low £20K’s. Is it any wonder that there’s nobody coming into the industry?
That is so bad that one guy told me that, unless he earned over £20K he was actually better off on the dole! How do get over that? How does offering training resolve that? All they’ll do is do a bit of training to satisfy the government that they tried and go back on the dole again and that does happen.
I took on a great young lad that’s doing really well, he’d been unemployed for over 2 years. So I called up the local employment people and asked if they could offer any assistance in respect of training etc., the answer was a flat “no”! It’s just crazy.
APG wrote:Saturdays not a problem, 98{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of customers are always in. The way round it with us was to tell them at the time of booking the call “Everyone wants a Saturday call, we can squeeze you in but if you go out you will be looking at a NO ACCESS CHARGE of £35.00” This is fair in our eyes as we could have gone to another customer who would be willing to wait in for us to repair their machine and not lost a live job slot.
Yeah, but under contract it’s not just that simple in law as I found out. 🙁
APG wrote:Do you think this is fair?
I think it’s very fair and if you can get it then more power to you.
APG wrote: My friend has just done it. Sold up everything, gone to Spain, purchased a nice villa with the swimming pool, 13 acres of land and fruit trees. What is he doing?
Carl is repairing appliances for Thomas Cook, First Choice, etc,etc. I have told him to be very careful as the work is seasonal and to watch the money but he is doing very, very well. So the question I keep asking myself is: what are we all doing wrong, how can we improve just to stay alive in this industry which is not well paid. I have not got the answers but will give it a real good go in the area we have just started.Yeah, the killer in this country is the cost of living which is high. I think the only country you could move to and not live any cheaper is Switzerland, or maybe one of the Scandanavian countries. Just look at fuel costs as an indicator of the difference.
I also know people, better paid than me, that have moved off to the US and Spain as they said it was just too expensive to live in the UK.
K.
Re: Bosch SRS4602GB/13 Module set up
WhiteBoxMan wrote:Always be wary of independants, they talk a good game but will ultimately steer you back to the manufacturer if they A: haven’t a clue or B: have a clue but will have to spend money on ordering a part they are not sure is required.
Not all are tarred with that brush. 😉
K.
Sorry, years of doing Candy is now showing isn’t it? 😆
When I said a tiny amount I meant a smear around the edge, no more.
K.
Re: DASA!
Del wrote:You’ve got to remember that Scott has only one voice on the council and I can tell you that his was not the majority view at the comittee meeting. So please lets not have persoal slagging matches in either UKW or DASA. You run the risk of being accused of acting in a similar manner to that which you are justifiably complaining about.
The point being I didn’t, nor did I toss my toys out the pram. I wrote about it in here and then thought about it a bit more. Quite honestly I couldn’t give a toss what Scott does so long as he behaves on UKW, other than that I have little to no interest, it’s of no concern really just irritatingly childish behaviour.
Anyway, if I get personal with someone I do that in privacy unless the opening salvo against me is in public. If that’s the case then stand clear.
What I am told, thus far, is that Scott did attack me in public effectively at a DASA council meeting and UKW to boot. I was not there to defend any accusations or inferences made so anyone that takes that line in public gets back a response in the manner in which it was doled out in the first place. I see that as neither unethical or unfair.
However I will drop it for the best interests of all concerned, but I won’t forget it.
Del wrote:I was under the impression that you were to be contacted about certain concerns that the committee had, and that no action of any kind was to be taken until you had had chance responded to them.
If we are all to degenerate into personal attacks then it gives no credit to either organisation.Nope but that’s fine by me I have no issues with anything other than trying to stick a rocket under some people’s arses.
Personal attacks won’t happen from me, as I said, without due cause and provocation. I simply don’t go at people like that unless it’s justified and, as is the case here, I won’t do it even if it goes against my own personal interest or that of others.
Del wrote:The guy’s in this forum understand what it is you are trying to do and support you fully so all i’m goin to say is what my kid’s tell me when I go off on one and that is …….CHILL !
8) I was. 😉
K.
Preferably black graphite stuff, the messy high heat stuff but as a rule you need only a tiny amount, if any at all.
K.
Re: DASA!
I was sorely tempted to post in the DASA forums, but I’ll resist the temptation for now.
It seems as though Scott has thrown his toys from the pram and doesn’t like me anymore, fair enough as I could care less what he thinks of me or UKW frankly as I regard him as a liability. But he has removed moderator status for both myself and Dave and removed my access to the council forum. He has done this without any reason whatsoever and provided no explanation for this action. So much for communication eh?
So before I publically tear into him and DASA apart over this would any of the leading lights care to comment?
I have also now heard tell that he wants all the DASA stuff removed from UKW, again fair enough if that’s wanting doing I’ll do it in a heartbeat for you. It’s sad, but if it needs doing it will be done, if you want I can lock down the forums in two minutes and remove them with almost the same haste if that is the desire?
I am also just a bit pissed off that he hasn’t had the balls to contact me directly on any of this, he hasn’t used the forums on UKW or DASAnet to communicate any of this, he’s just gone off on one and done it. He also attcked me personally and UKW when I wasn’t even present to defend either, very nice.
Hardly the image a reputable trade association would wish to present to its members is it? Or is it just a case of a club for the boys?
K.
Did we miss anything startling or interesting at the meeting or was it just the usual? Did I get a pasting for what I posted the other week or did they all act like grown ups and resist ejecting the toys?
I agree, it would be unfair and may compromise people’s current positions if names were banded about openly.
K.
Re: Whitegoods TV show?
With the humble washing machine, it started in a river. People used to take their clothing down to the river, wash it about with some sort of detergent and then slap it against a rock, the stone age equivelent of a tumble for wash and a spin dry. Machines operate almost to the letter on that same principal today bar the addition of heat, but that is still not used in many other countries now, in particular the Far East. The basic principal can still be witnessed today in many third world countries.
But you can also centre on the principals involved in assembling the things, which is absolutely fascinating with the levels of robotics used these days and the sheer rate at which machines are churned out. A visit to Turin would be more in line with that, not the laundrette. 😉
Then there’s the design to minimise pollution, the testing and life cycle, the use of detergents and the technology in those, which is quite fascinating as well. Then there’s the future of the product as well, new nano-technologies, ultrasonics and network capabilities.
All in all there’s actually a fair bit involved using some pretty hi-tech processes to do what is, essentially, a mindless and boring everday chore that’s all wrapped up in a boring white box in the kitchen.
Hope that helps.
K.
Re: Whitegoods TV show?
Rob,
First of all I’m really pleased that the site proved of use to you.
I’m a bit taken aback by the very notion of a TV show centered around our industry but, within each product group there probably is enough to fill a half hour slot pretty easily. You are also very correct in that it would be benificial to the public to see the other side as well as for the trade to get their side across to the public in such a media.
In short, I think it’s a great idea and I’d love to see it come to fruition.
If I or the trade in general can be of any help to you with this project please don’t hesitate to ask as we’ll be more than happy to help.
Regards
K.
