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Re: Samsung Fridge Freez
No idea what that’s al about but you may be right, power spike taken out the board or, boards.
Best bet in Exeter to start with is probably CES, here:
K.
Re: beko fridge/freezer repairs
That model number doesn’t seem to exist, can you check the rating plate and give the full model number or better the product code?
When you say it won’t start, what exactly is it not doing?
K.
Re: Fishing
Not 100{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} sure yet Steve, I’ve been approached about it by one brand thus far seriously but there may be more if the idea has any mileage.
The idea being it gives those that don’t really sell or don’t sell at all the ability to get more stuff they service out there at reasonable cost to the customer. Thereby not saying goodbye to the cust as they bog off to Argos and buy a POS whatever for £6.99 with free delivery and will all too likely become a cust that you’ll never see again.
That’s the main focus so far as I’m concerned with the repairers.
The good bit in there is that, depending on how you do it, the repairer may very well not be the legal “seller” so they’ve no responsibility. So none of the hassles of dealing with anything beyond the initial advice to the customer.
Trade sales where the “seller” resells a product and takes the payment makes them responsible legally you see which, for many repairers is just too much hassle for many to be bothered with for low volumes.
The problem being that many would like to build up more of the machines that they can and do repair but they don’t want to be selling, which is pretty much the only way you can do that presently.
I get what you’re saying Dave but the thing for me is and, this applies to spares as well for me explained like; the more stuff that’s out there people are liable to come back to me for parts when they break.
The less stuff that’s out there we carry or supply parts for the less I get.
It’s a long game thing that does take time to build but the way I look at it is, the more out there, the better odds I’ll get something out it down the road.
K.
Re: Water not running to fabric softener
Nope.
In a system like that both water valves are opened and the cross of the two paths makes water go into the softener compartment.
But, only on the final rinse and at no other time.
But on that model, no error code means no valve fault. So, blockage is about all it can be as I said or possibly the levelling. Other than those there’s not much to look at.
And, technically, there’s no pumping of anything. Just FYI, it’s all just gravity and water flow.
K.
Re: Water not running to fabric softener
If it’s even a remotely recent model it’ll be using a diversion type system as detailed and, if the valve were faulty you’d get an error code. In short, there will not be a dedicated valve solely for the conditioner.
But you’d need to provide a model number for anyone to tell you for sure. That said, if it’s less than about ten years old, the above will almost certainly hold true.
That being the case, the chances of a faulty valve causing the problem are somewhere less than zero.
So quite probably a blockage of some sort in the jets on the dispenser top section from what you describe that will need cleared or the top replaced.
Or, don’t use the goop. 😉
K.
Re: Water not running to fabric softener
This should answer the questions….
http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/fix- … ner-issues
K.
Re: barcodes
have a word with Sudeep, he was working with those on the stock control side he may be able to offer pointers.
K.
Re: EBAC washing machines launch in the spring
Latest news on Ebac here:
http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/appliance … production
K.
Re: Britannia Range BR-SI-9S6-L-G Selector switch
The real part number is A03409.
Here: https://shop.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/a03409- … tor-switch
K.
Re: heating element resistance values
I do understand the frustration Evren but you’re not actually using part numbers the way that they are intended to be used.
What is happening here is using dimensions and “looks like” which is in large part not the way spare parts identification works at all.
As I said, make>model>part number is the only way to be sure. Anything else and you introduce a huge margin of error in a great many parts if not most.
I had a look back in this thread and, there’s no make mentioned I can find, no model number so it’s all a bit of a wing and prayer that the part ordered will be suitable and, of the models those heaters are rated to fit, they’ll be fine. So, not a problem with the part numbers at all I shouldn’t think.
It is however a problem for trying to fit those to whatever your’e fitting it to.
K.
Re: Asko washing machine questions
The original ones are here, not cheap sadly:
http://shop.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/ask88011 … on-brushes
You can use these but as Dave says, you lose the motor protection:
http://shop.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/12hp20-f … on-brushes
If you’ve used sandpaper on the motor commutator though you may have damaged it as you should only ever use a specialist cleaning stick for doing that, it’s a very fine grade abrasive cleaner. So, firing in the cheap ones to try it may be the best thing to do.
K.
Re: For a clearer understanding watch this..
Thing is Martin, there is not one shred of evidence that supports the fanciful notion that all those industries would still exist as you allude whether the EU existed or not as much of the industry you cite is massively globalised. The EU are not responsible for that.
Ship building was on the wane long before the EU came into being for example. The bulk of it moving to South Korea, Japan and so on. Bugger all to do with the EU as you can’t even pin it on the Working Time Directive as the decline predates that.
And by way of another example or two, before the EU (possibly the EEC was in place) both Hoover and Hotpoint were foreign owned.
The reality for me is that, people went to Japanese, German or whatever produced goods as they wanted better quality, quality that the UK in the 60’s and 70’s especially with all the labour woes simply could not match.
Then globalisation took hold and costs to produce elsewhere got ever cheaper as the former Soviet Union collapsed opening up new low cost labour markets.
Then the Great Trade Wall of China fell, South Korea geared up and opened the floodgates to even cheaper products produced out in Asia.
Now, I don’t know about you but I completely fail to see how the EU affected that other than maybe putting tariffs and barriers in place to try to protect Europeans. I completely fail to see what they could have done to halt that sweeping globalisation. And, I completely fail to understand how that the UK (whether it was in or out of the EU) would have made a single jot of difference to any of that.
If you watch that movie you originally posted the leave side argues that protecting European jobs is bad and costs Europeans in higher price less technological goods. Essentially the economic argument is that this is protectionism and it protects inefficient old industries in Europe by holding off newer more efficient ones outside the EU, which is partly true. But, what good is being able to buy cheaper phones or whatever if you’ve no job and no money.
Just ask the Greeks.
My point being that a lot of the rhetoric spouted by both sides is bull but, for the leave argument the notion that UK would be some sort of manufacturing Nirvana if we were out is complete horse manure, we’d still have to compete on a global stage. The argument that we’d be making more out I cannot accept as being even remotely true.
And the membership of the EU probably doesn’t have a lot to do with foreign owned facilities such as you cite either. I mean, we’e got the Chinese ready to build nuclear power plants for goodness sales, they’re hardly EU members!
Or how about the American owned companies that are in the UK and, talk of some American companies investing in NHS services?
I’m sorry but a lot of that stuff just doesn’t stand up to any scrutiny if you move beyond the emotive.
I’m quite pragmatic generally but I really am on this and to be honest the way I see it is that it doesn’t really matter if the UK is in or out of the EU. Either way, we’ll all just get on with it, the economy will take a knock probably either way and then recover.
The difference to the man or woman on the street will quite likely be unnoticeable whatever way it goes for many years at best, probably not in my lifetime.
The reason is simple, we still have to compete as a nation on a global stage, comply with local legislation across many countries and imports still have to comply with ours coming into the UK. So long term whatever happens may have an effect but it sure ain’t no quick fix for all the ills that are talked about.
K.
