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Re: chip in a ic
Martin wrote:You are a tease streetlighter 😆 Most folks on this site can’t even read let alone spell 😉
No fair, I call foul.
Proper grammar and spelling is a very difficult thing to enforce given that the English language is an evolving entity and, yes, I’ve had this as an argument on occasion. Non-capitilisation is acceptable in a digital medium as not everyone can type or is trained to and that is a major drawback to the use of such a medium, it’s a learning curve there apart from which almost all internet addresses etc. are lower case and CAPS is regarded as shouting. 😉
If you look at the current edition of the Oxford Dictionary you will see many new additions in terms or abbreviation and spelling mainly due to shortened IM and text messages. So they are now “officially” accepted practices in the English language, like it or loath it.
However, in your day Martin they preached the 2 R’s with a bl00dy big cane, now they just give you a dirty look so we’re probably a bit more relaxed about it all. 😉 😆
Anyway, so long as the intended message and sentiment gets to where it needs to go I couldn’t care less if it arrived by paper aeroplane. 😉
K.
Basically, if you get one untrained body with no gas experience then CORGI want them trained for 14 weeks or some such nonsense and then stuck through the courses just as an experienced person would be. So, unless you can prove experience in gas product then you can’t get certified but the “man & van” would have to attend a 14 week course to be able to apply for the CCN1 etc.
So, fine if you can afford to carry the cost of training but i’m willing to bet most of cannot.
K.
Hi,
From the fault described it’s almost certainly a thermostat failure. The part is available easily, part number 76X3759 and is listed at £29.98 excluding VAT and carriage.
If you use the helpdesk function Dave will get you one pretty rapidly if you want one. I don’t know if they are in stock with Dave, but they will be with the manufacturer I should imagine.
K.
Interesting way around it if you can afford to do it, most of us cannot. So I have to ask, are CORGI merely supporting the big corporate players and ignoring the small traders on the ground?
Thus far all they seem to do is kick us in the teeth and even when we challenged them they had little to say. Oh how I wish for an open debate with CORGI, I’d have such fun. 😈
K.
Re: The Worst Machine Ever Built!
I was trying to forget the old Candy toploader thing, really I was, but it was such a pile I thought it was worth a mention.
Alex has managed to sum up most of the failings in the “thing” pretty well but left out the real kicker. Candy Service were blissfully unaware that any had been sold in the UK at all!
When we first got a call from DAG (IIRC) to go and see the first one I saw, or anyone in the company at that time, we actually queried the model number as it just didn’t seem right at all. But no it was correct, we actually suspected that it wasn’t a Candy at all.
Of course the fault was “noisy”, so you know what’s coming don’t you? Yep, it was a bearing failure on a machine that no-one had ever seen, there was no technical information available for at all, Candy told us wasn’t even for sale in the UK at the time and that was the spawn of Satan. I got the pleasure of the first bearing job on one in Scotland with a co-worker, it took months for the wounds to heal and still longer for the bitter memories to fade.
Now, I with another bod could do a Candy bearing change (pre-Charme, damned silicon and production line cr@p) in about 45 minutes, even on a washer dryer for those that slate Candy, yet this thing took well over 3 hours! In actual fact once you get your head around the Candy design it is actually pretty simple and easy to deal with, even if it does mean a few cuts along the way.
Not a happy memory that one at all and Candy’s sales team later admitted something along the lines of, “yeah, we did sell a few of those but we’re sure you got the memo”. 😕
The strange thing is, I still like Candy stuff probably as I grew up with it and the people at Candy in my years of working with them were, shall we say, “colourfull”. 😉
K.
Well there was the Zerowatt 1000 as well Alex. 😉
Now, I know engineers that were almost in staightjacket due to that pile of ! 😆
K.
Re: DASA OR NOT DASA
DASA Council meeting July 8th 2004 Walsall
The Boundary Hotel
Birmingham road
Walsall
WS5 3AB
This is the confirmed venue.
09.30 am start.
Rooms are available at £57 pp B&B.
If you would like a room booked please contact John Fitzgerald on 07745 213666 or 01922 61500 or
john.fitzgerald@service2000ltd.co.ukK.
Sad but true…
Oldtog’s post I think did more harm than good, nicely saved by a drop of the truth from Ted. But it doesn’t exactly encourage any allegience to DASA does it?
I still wonder what Martin told him. 😕
K.
Penguin45 wrote:Probably been checking in here first…… Ain’t we wonderful?
Actually, yes!
I think that the advice offered by anyone on here to the public has been, in virtually every case, absolutely sound with almost nothing that could possibly cause an issue. I also think that a lot of the guys that have answered the public’s enquiries have shown that we’re not merciless dogs out to rip people off but are giving honest, genuine and relevant advice to people.
It would (and will) take years to make reparations for the damage caused over the years to this trade by the people that leave spur marks in the lino, but it’s a start. And a bloody good one.
I’ve said it before and I’ll keep repeating it, the advice and opinions given to the public is excellent and it shows the world just how good we are at what we do.
As for losing business out it, well I used to worry about it the same as everyone else does but my old man once said that, “as soon as they walk through the door asking for a spare you’ve lost the job anyway and all you’ll get after that is hassles when they a**e it up”. Many years ago I decided he was indeed correct.
K.
Sorry Tomcat your probably pretty much stuck with going to Baumatic i’m afraid. Although a local supplier may be able to offer an “alternative” part but most of us will all be enjoying the sunshine till Tuesday, except we few that are still around at this hour of course. 😉
K.
Nope, I actually like MS product as a general rule as when I build PC’s for people they either have a clue of what they want to do or can work it out. You try getting Lotus Notes to work without a degree and a 6 month training course in it! It’s the work of the devil I tell you, the work of the devil!! 😆
That’s not to say that MS have not had their shining examples of total stupidity, that damned paper clip “thing” being one of a many. 😉
K.
TBH, I did say a while back that the laundry products in particular would end up be a badged up Merloni product and it looks set to be the case. There is no way that Merloni is going to use totally different components on different brands within the same camp as it’s just not cost-effective to do so. I’d also lay good odds that spares used on the production lines in the UK get somewhat Merloni-ized, we all know it’ll happen.
So that leaves us with a spattering of UK manufacturing, in essentially, nothing but name only. And, IMO, that will only last so long as it’s politically and economically convienent to do so.
Mind you, the way things are going, most of the appliances or spares will be coming from the former Eastern Block countries or the Far East by the looks of things. I have to say, that doesn’t exactly instil a lot of confidence given what I’ve seen from these countries thus far. 😕
K.
Oh yes P, we’ve seen some abortions over the years, I’ve often thought to myself when seeing a new appliance “why the f*** did they do that as that’s just asking for trouble”. But, in your previously exhalted position you will know as well as I that it comes down to two factors, is it cheap to produce and will it cause major warranty problems. Service is an afterthought, at best.
That said, at times I think that all the part changes etc are a deliberate tactic to discourage third party repairers from looking at the appliance. This very tactic was once mooted by a manufacturer to me who shall remain nameless, but I didn’t think that it was too nice.
What the manufacturers don’t seem to consider that if the appliance can’t be repaired easily by the likes of our good selves that many customers switch off the brand. That is so even on the ones that are a pain, we all start to slag them off and just think, we see 10 customers (roughly) per engineer per day. That’s a lot of customers put off an appliance or brand, but conversely it can also be quite a few sales to be gained on a decent appliance.
K.
