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Re: IOT enabled Engineers
Most are WiFi only.
If it’s a default network SSID that’s open and it finds a DHCP server to give it an address it’ll just reconnect. Unlikely for most that know much of anything but, there’s a heap of open networks out there.
But there again, why would someone that’s paid £100’s more want to disconnect it, after all that’s what they paid to get?
K.
Re: Jointing and insulating heating/defrost wire
DIYguy wrote:Was planning to use a crimp joint and insulate with high temperature heat-shrink.
Probably about the best you can do really.
K.
Re: IOT enabled Engineers
Lawrence wrote:Another point what happens when they are out of warranty or if the code developer goes bust.
You be stuffed is what!
K.
Re: IOT enabled Engineers
Not that simple I’m afraid Martin as Samsung customers have already found out with some of theirs, they cannot have the firmware updated.
So none of your suggestions will work in such cases or if it’s pwned as it’s called either.
Only way is to go in and fix it manually.
K.
Re: Servis oven door?
Hinges yes Jim but the glass I reckon you might struggle to get.
The only place I found it was on Connect, nil stock no ETA and over £100 so not worth it.
K.
Re: Whirlpool to do a recall on Hotpoint dryers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KdVy02Dowg
Another genius at work.
K.
Re: WTA 2017 conference
Next week the WTA members will get first dibs on booking, not that there’s a lack of space at least for now but, just because it’s the right thing to do. It’s polite and, I and the WTA guys like to be polite if nothing else as we got raised right.
For the time being there’s some stuff I think I can share…
There’s already some interesting stands booked or exhibitors if you will along with interesting people that some of you might want to talk to. Just saying.
We know that the screen this year looked a bit washed out and for some people it was hard to read. White room with mirrors and lots of windows, a nightmare scenario for projectors so, this time around we’ve got a bit of a plan we hope comes off and if it does as we expect it’ll be pretty impressive. That said, if someone wants to donate us video wall or £7K we can make it blow the socks off people there.
There’s some “stuff” coming up in industry terms that might just change what we’re talking about and as ever, personally I don’t like being trapped in an agenda and all the more so when goings on at the time make you want to tear that up and start over as what’s happening is more important and relevant to the here and now.
Most of the conferences I end up with at least two or three presentations or talks shelved as there’s more important stuff to be getting on with. I don’t expect this one to be any different.
That said I can tell you that I’ve started work on a few and one of them I’ll tell you why it’s there and, why I won’t be engaged in a conversation on it till Feb.
Brands
I’ve started work on a talk and full on imagery on brands, branding and the value of them as well as the effect that policy can have on a brand.
The reason for this is that several brand owners have had a pop at me about stuff that’s been said on this site, in these forums and so forth and as usual I don’t run away and hide when someone has a go. I’ll take the criticism head on and address it.
Not in a confrontational manner, just explain the point of view that I and many repairers hold.
That then led to a bunch of other stuff that hangs off the back of that topic and allows exploring a whole load of topics but the very relevant ones to the people reading this (probably) is spares and service as, there is a direct effect to each.
All the various threads and interplay between them I’m still working out how to explain in a concise and coherent way that won’t bore people to death so engaging in a conversation about it ahead of time would be dumb. I will work out how to do that, it will just take time to do so.
If I lost you somewhere along the way there, sorry. If you want clarity or to better understand what the blazes I’m on about well there really is only one way to find out, get to the conference.
Reruns
I don’t do reruns.
What I mean by that is, I can’t be bothered to type out every little detail and nuance of what is said at the conferences. I don’t even write a script, it’s all done in the moment, live.
There’s too much, it’s too hard and the best you’ll get is the dumbed down bullet points as, that’s all I can be bothered to do and it’s all I can often recall of it to boot.
Odd occasion I’ll give a talk again but it’s never the same thing twice as, stuff changes and that has to be reflected whether it’s for uni’s, government or the whitegoods conference.
But if you want a blow by blow account of what is discussed, sorry but as the Yanks say, you’re s–t outta luck as it ain’t happenin’.
If you expect that after the event as has been asked for before, sorry it’s not happening.
I’ve often given people copies of the slides I or we use but, without context and the content they’re about as much use a chocolate fireguard. Great with it, not so much without it.. think a movie with no soundtrack, it just doesn’t work.
Interactive
I hope that this year we will again be using the Crowd Mics thing.
It’s brilliant and allows the audience to take part easily in what’s going on. It wasn’t well used this time but it was the first time we’d tried it and there were a few questions off the app which were actually pretty damn good.
Dunno about the WTA crew but I liked it and I’d like to use it again.
If you want to heckle then that’s the way to do it but, fair warning, I just love hecklers as I see that as sport.
Gauntlet, down.
You want to badger me, the WTA or any of the presenters, I’ll happily give people the tools to do that with.
Offers
I’m personally not a big believer in this stuff. I don’t need to be coerced into going to these events as there’s well more than enough to get out it without trinkets as I see it.
But there are exhibitors that do stuff on the day, deals on parts, specials and all sorts of stuff to win new accounts.
There are some there this time around as well as all the previous with as many people saying that they got more out than the time it cost them on several fronts.
This year is was a frenzy over some offers, free torches, tools and the cases of beer that were being doled out for free. The pens, mugs, food and heaps of other stuff took a back seat al of that!
Bottom Line
The upshot of all this, if you’ve managed to wade though my rambling is, there’s a lot of effort goes into this.
There’s a lot to get out it.
Most people that attend come away with more than they went into it with. That might be a bunch of freebies, perhaps new work, new suppliers, new knowledge or whatever but we’ve yet to come across anyone that got nothing from it.
Best of all, it’s free! You’ve not a thing to lose other than the time.
The question you probably have to therefore ask yourself is this, can you afford not to take a punt that it’ll be worth the effort?
See you all there. The people that get it at least.
K.
Re: Whirlpool to do a recall on Hotpoint dryers
Sorry, I didn’t think on that, d’oh!
Been up since the wee small hours so not completely with it today. 🙁
K.
Re: Whirlpool to do a recall on Hotpoint dryers
That’s not the voice of reason…
He forgot to mention the same exact lint builds in and same thing happens in ANY dryer!
I’d hardly call some dude’s back garden as laboratory conditions either.
Nor does it take account of the confined space and direct air flow, think back to being a boy scout and blowing on embers to get a fire started… same thing happens in a dryer.
Click bait IMO.
K.
Re: How many engineers in the uk??
Yell doesn’t have them all, you can’t trust one source only sadly.
Last I check in about 2013/4 there were about 2.4K active although that will likely have dropped as that has been the general trend.
Figure on about 1.5-3 employees per active company and you probably won’t be too far off the mark but, it’s guesswork as nobody measures it.
K.
Re: Sarena SW 202 – Identify this machine please
It’s a Siltal I think. That’s why it’s mostly obsolete.
Honestly, you probably won’t find much of anything for those now.
K.
Re: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
I don’t think that’s possible, I think that sort of thing has been tried in the past without success.
K.
Re: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
I think those caps are different from the usual ones discussed at length here and, from memory, they’re impossible to get as well. I seem to recall someone trying all over the world for them and they are specials that are unique to Whirlpool so, you may have no other option but to replace the board.
K.
