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Re: Hotpoint Aquarius FDW60 Door Catch

Got it, thanks! 😉

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Re: Belling XOU251 Fan Element Replacement

Thanks v much for the info. Anyone else know how to get to the bottom element?

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Re: Belling XOU251 Fan Element Replacement

Having ordered the fan element I have discovered by metering out that it is in fact the bottom element that is O/C. Can anyone tell me how to get the bottom element out?

I wish I’d done this before I’d ordered the fan element. I assumed it was that one but it seems that one and the bottom one are in series. 😡

Thanks all.

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Re: Belling XOU251 Fan Element Replacement

Many thanks indeed! 🙂

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Re: Hotpoint Washer Dryer Spin problem

Duly noted and thanks for the warning.

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Re: Hotpoint Washer Dryer Spin problem

Thank you Jim, I’ll be sure to do that.

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Re: Hotpoint Washer Dryer Spin problem

Thanks, I’ll take a look. Why is it necessary to leave the machine for 5 minutes, things charged up inside there?

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Re: Belling XOU270 Door Seal

Thank you!

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Re: Delay Timer in Hotpoint WD640

iadom wrote:I have not seen a washer dryer that does not automatically follow a wash cycle with a drying cycle if both are selected. Not had a look at a WD640 yet though.

The operating instructions tell you how to wash, how to dry bot not how to follow washing with drying! How cr@p is that? 😕 I tried your suggestion and you can do it, so my workaround to just dry with the delay timer is to select the shortest wash programme (‘slow spin’, 13 minutes) and then auto-dry.

Thanks for your help.

Keith.
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Re: Delay Timer in Hotpoint WD640

Washman wrote:Hi

The idea of the wash delay is that you set the time to start the wash then set drying time ,machine will then wash and then go straight into dry cycle . When you get up in the morning its all washed and dried . Which means the washing is done with cheap electricity as well.

Mike

Hi Mike.

Are you sure that’s true of the WD640? I couldn’t find an option to make it wash and dry all in one go. Does it only do that in conjunction with the delay timer?

Regards,
Keith.

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Re: Delay Timer in Hotpoint WD640

iadom wrote:If that is the official line then the serial number does not matter. I am guessing that you bought it from a large, well known retailer. The staff in these places are only really interested in selling you a maintenance contract, anything else is way beyond them. You may pay a little more for the product but by using a local independant retailer you will almost certainly get far superior advice and service backup.

All of the local independant retailers went to the wall a long time ago here and we’re rather isolated to go elsewhere when you need something in a hurry. 😕

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Re: Delay Timer in Hotpoint WD640

iadom wrote:

Although it may seem ridiculous, it is quite possible that some machines will have a function and some with the same model number do not.

If I do find any more info on this I will let you know.

What is the serial number of your machine?

Jim.

Hi Jim, thanks for the info.

I had a call from Hotpoint yesterday with the answer I was looking for, that being that *none* of their washer dryers have a time delayed dry function. This is ridiculous and wasn’t pointed out to me when I bought the machine so I will now contact Trading Standards to see how I stand legally. I believe the retailler may have inadvertantly misrepresented the machine’s features by not telling me (I bet even they don’t know).

I’m at work at the moment but if you’d still like the serial number let me know.

Thanks again.

Keith.

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