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This is something that gets asked a lot.
Can I get metal instead of plastic dishwasher wheels/baskets, fridge freezer shelves/door fixings, washing machine doors/knobs and on and on the list goes.
The short answer is no, you can’t.
The long answer is, you can’t and with very, very good reason.
To keep it simple and save me writing an essay on it, there are elements in any product (doesn’t matter what really) that are designed in a way that one easier to replace and the cheaper component fails (often for safety reasons as well) before something else does that is harder to replace or indeed irreplaceable.
To give a common example, integrated door slides on a fridge. They’re all plastic and we are often asked for metal alternatives but, it’s only one such example from many.
The reason that they are the way they are is, if they were metal there’d be no flex, no tolerance and that’s a problem with so many moving parts in use. then there’s noise, metal against metal, it’s not gonna be quiet. Then there’s that if they’re stronger than the wooden door or indeed, the appliance door, the doors will rip apart before the brackets do.
It’s all very well having the brackets that don’t fail, not much cop if your doors are ripped apart.
So in many cases, it’s the lesser of one or more evils.
The solution, to be blunt, is to buy better plastics. To buy better plastics costs, just as buying better anything costs.
So, if you go buy a cheap dishwasher then yes, the plastics will be, ehm, not very good and they will break.
But a good one and whilst you’re not totally immunised from failure, it’s far, far less likely.
As to machines without all the “features” people want on the spec sheet, if they weren’t there (even if never used like most), they’d not sell any. So…
I hope that helps you understand and perhaps appreciate that the price you pay isn’t always about what you can see, some stuff you can’t see yet it is better or worse depending on what it is and how much it is.
K.
There is a cost to running accounts, that’s a part of it I guess.
But, largely IMO, the driving down of part prices online is as a result of some trade suppliers getting into a race to the bottom on the big platforms, Amazon and eBay and they are all there, every one of them in one form/name or another.
Bar ASWO. They are the only one that does not, 100{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} for sure, sell to the public in any way at all.
K.
This is just a hunch but I think you probably nailed it with:
“The Lady uses the steam clean function quite a bit”
If overused then that’s probably to be expected. 🙁
K.
For an oven it’s not too bad Dave.
The only thing that matters is the it cuts out at or slightly under the original on and is (VERY importantly) mounted to the same surface assuming of course it’s a surface one as 99.9999{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} will be.
If it chops the power a bit early.. oh well.
Too late… oh dear.
Fan stats on the other hand, should in theory, be the opposite if you see what I mean.
But you’d always have some variance in them anyway, they’re not exactly what you’d call medical-grade accurate by any means. Typically, IME, there’s a 5-15{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} variance on most domestic oven stats, varies wildly.
The problem is often with getting the mounted where they should be in order to work as the should do and yes, as you rightly say, it’s a safety thing so it needs to be bang on or close enough so as not to pose a danger.
K.
We may have discussed that topic before, in that there is no shortage of complete wassocks out there. 😉
K.
Not to mention that the wash performances I’ve seen are shockingly bad on many washers, I suspect that this will make that worse.
K.
It exists, Google recognises the model but nobody else seems to so I’ve no clue what it is, who made it or what might be wrong with it. 🙁
K.
Ch**t on a bike!! 😡
Myself, John Hopwood and others were banging on about that a decade ago to anyone who’d listen. Not a new idea, but one that needs looking at.
K.
I think it’s a lot older than you believe but it does sound like the board has gone and it’s this one used in that hood:
https://shop.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/08080684-cooker-hood-pcb
K.
Yeah a LOT better, I spoke with him last week I think and he was a lot better and brighter.
He says he’s jacking it though, he’s had enough.
K.
