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Re: Electruepart

kladave wrote:ok then we spend well into 4 figures per month with electrue yet our price is wait for it 😆 pmp952 £5.99 and £3.75 for x5 😯

Does that not go some way to explaining the anti electrue stance ?

Lawrence

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Re: Disposal of Trade Waste

Hi
Linda I have hunted high and low and can’t lay my hands on it ,I know it was a plaguerised Smeg letter so if anyone has a copy ?..
Sorry
Lawrence

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Re: Disposal of Trade Waste

Hi
we have a letter that we use nicely to place the liability with the customer to dispose I will see if I can find it
Lawrence

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Re: NVQ for the Domestic Appliance industry.

Ultrazapp wrote:I bet the manufacturers get their engineers qualified, because of course they are the only “Professionals” in the trade making us by default the cowboys. What actually makes them the “Professionals” to be honest only the fact that they are big and have one united voice?

What qualifications ? Do the likes of merloni train a new engineer to an approved level i.e NVQ or is it an in house qualification ?

Ultrazapp wrote:The negative comments being posted on this subject only fuel the argument that you are “small and isolated”. The manufacturers will be laughing at you and these negative comments; I know because I worked for one for eleven years.

Perhaps there is an element of worry involved that creates a knee jerk reaction , for example I am a sole trader and if I have to attend a course to gain an approved qualification that means time of that in turn affects my profitability how do I recoup that lost revenue? do I put up my charges ,I can’t see the insurance companies and the manufacturers I do work for liking that.

Ultrazapp wrote: Again “Reality” check Blogs Domestics (no association intended) has the attitude that the world owes them a living and then gets quite stroppy when things do not right, and the local taxi driver has just unblocked a drain pump for a £10 (Beer Money for Friday night).

It is a bit galling when you spend years gaining experience ,to find someone pinching work from you
Offering no warranty ,or liability cover etc

Ultrazapp wrote:Mr Manufacturer on the other hand actually gets of his Ar*e and meets his local Quango and guess what “Actually” gets results.

Mr manufacturer has people in his organisation who are paid to get of their Ar*e and meet quango’s we don’t ,However with the advent of UKW we are being represented and hats of to all those who are involved .

Ultrazapp wrote:Or how is this for a novel idea why don’t you support the guys from UK Whitegoods who actually are taking on the manufacturers, work providers, insurance companies and the government on your behalf.

We are on the whole ,but not knowing what lies ahead can be a little daunting

Ultrazapp wrote:Gentlemen if you carry on sticking your head in the sand I will be pleased to introduce myself to you on your induction week at CREATE. I would much rather prefer to support you in gaining an industry and more importantly a government recognised qualification.

I don’t think anyone is doing that

Ultrazapp wrote:If you pull together and more importantly work together and support each other you collectively have a much larger voice than any of the manufactures.

I think we all know that

Lawrence

(Who did see the CREATE presentation at Birmingham and was impressed)

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Re: Cats

Came across this “Guard Cat” on a Samsung a while back ,Builder let me in this moggie growled like any dog I have heard every time I went near the machine,Had to use oven gloves to move it ,builder was in hysterics 😆

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Re: ISE Stock arrival to agents

thanks Guys
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Re: ISE Stock arrival to agents

I am delivering my first ISE tommorow is there a handbook on a PDF so I can demonstrate it with prior knowledge
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Re: How Busy Are We

Worryingly quiet at the mo 🙁
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Re: ISE Stock arrival to agents

receiving two on Weds sold one today ,replacing a hvr 1100 that I last looked at in 1987 😯 ,might have sold the other one ,could have sold an integrated one today as well . 🙁
Lawrence

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Re: Philco PA207

Thats the one ..

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Re: The Big Bad Wolf

How does the song go ” there may be troubles ahead…..”
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Re: Philco PA207

Sorry getting my Jim and Geoff’s mixed up 😳

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Re: Philco PA207

Hi Geoff
It’s the NTC thermistor or the element going open circuit ,These machines had the most bizarre self diagnostic system whereby if it detects a fault in the wash it shuts down drains and advances to the end ,customer comes back to machine and finds wet laundry thinks it hasn’t spun ,when she retries it will spin okay because that part of the cycle wasn’t faulty.
I used to know the NTC reading of the top of my head will try and dig it up for you ,but a rule of thumb is if the face of the NTC is discoloured its shot .

Lawrence

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Re: Useful tip… Fat in drain pipe

Or set the appliance draining, place your thumb over the end of the drain hose vigourosly pull the drain hose back and forth stretching it slightly and shake the hose as well .
When you feel a build up of pressure behind your thumb let it go lay it a bowl and voila a stinking mess but a drain hose cleared .
Lawrence

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Re: Referrals?

Hi
Where can we obtain literature from ?
Lawrence

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