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Re: Bosch WFD2460GB/01 Washing Machine
I don’t know of any way to be sure without dismantling. But if the play is small, then it’ll probably be OK. Not had to do many Bosch bearings but they’re usually owned by more careful owners who call you before it’s got too bad. Either that or the bearings just last longer.
Mike.Re: Candy CM462 a/w
All I can say is have you checked if heater is getting a feed? Presumably it isn’t. So it’s module, p/sw or selector sw. or wiring. Can’t find your model on Connect so presume it’s a new one. Selector switch sounds like it should be cheap, would try that first for that reason. And also because they have been so unreliable on Hoover machines in the past. If it makes no difference this time round, there’s a chance you’ll eventually use it on another job. Or maybe just dismantle it / or spray it with switch cleaner.
Mike.Re: Beko WM1280 Motor Fault?
If you connected one lead to one brush terminal and the other lead to the other then you’ve proved the armature is getting 230v.
This suggests that there is at least one neutral present and that the timer/module is probably OK, but not certainly so.
If you suspect the motor but it checks out OK on meter, you could test it using a flying lead and a connecting wire or two. There have been several threads on how to do this. Use search and “testing motors”, tick search for all terms.
From another angle, have you looked at the module? Any visible burning or dry joints?
Mike.Re: smeg switch
From Mediator on Connect,
811730234OVEN COMMUTATOR SWITCH
Top oven selector switch
From £27.13
SRP: £36.71
In Stock
Code:811730234
Mike.Re: fisher & paykal dd603h hose and more
Connect list 21 parts if you put your model in their search box, though only three parts in stock. 🙁
Mike.Re: Hoover HNWL7148 – 80 paddles.
You sure of model no.? Closest can find is HNWL7146-80 for which Ransom Spares lists paddle
http://www.ransomspares.co.uk/products/ … 122959.htm
but not with orig pt no. However they give a long list of other models it fits so you can probably cross reference.
Mike.Re: meggers
Brains wrote:
Mike you can do a limited amount of appliance testing with a MultiFunction Tester that does insulation, continuity & loop. There is an adaptor made that will allow the use of an MFT to test appliances.Take a look at this link:
http://www.kewtechcorp.com/products/pat/patadapter1.htm
Regards
Thanks for the pointer. I’ll mull it over.
Mike.Re: meggers
I’m not sure I should tell this little tale here but I’ve been saving it up for a few years now and I ought to tell it before I forget. As if I could.
I was called to an AEG wm which wasn’t starting up. In my carefree way (as was) I took the lid off, switched on and started poking around with my LED screwdriver (one hand in my pocket 😉 ). To my confusion I found there was live potential present on all the exposed metal!
I turned off the power and opened up the plug. The earth wire was wired to the live terminal and the live wire to the earth 😯 .
I informed the customer of the situation.
Turned out the customer had just moved into the house and the moving company had got one of their guys to remove and rewire the plug as it had to go through a hole in the worktop. I asked him for the name of the company so I could contact them and advise them not to leave such work to unqualified operatives. They said they didn’t have the name to hand. So I asked them to find out and call me on the morrow. Not sure, maybe the customer had done it himself and was trying to cover up. Anyway, they never called me.
Make of that what you will.
Mike.Re: meggers
Fantastic. Thanks Brains and Bob for clear and final answers to my confusion. That is much appreciated. At last I know what I should be aiming at.
I can see now that I’m gonna’ have to think seriously about getting a new pannier rack for the front of my bike to carry the two extra tools that I don’t currently (no pun intended) have, i.e. loop tester and PAT tester. Maybe I will get a bike trailer a bit like one of them wheeled suitcases that I can just unhook and wheel to the door.Sorry adv about the dishwasher but I think that by asking that simple question you have benefitted our industry greatly.
Now wouldn’t it be brilliant if someone would come up with a way to make a meter that would perform ALL these testing tasks so we could breeze in and get the job done without tripping over all the various leads trailing about before we even get started on changing that door seal.
Or maybe somebody already has?
Mike.Re: meggers
Brains wrote:
1. Test earth continuity within appliance with a multimeter. That’s at 9 volts, mark you.
This gives an indication but will not pick up broken or strained conductors – thats why an Appliance Tester uses high current (nominally 20A).
Regards
Ah!!! At last! So testing earth continuity within the appliance with a simple multimeter is not good enough!
Please please somebody now tell me what meter we need to use to do this part properly. Is it an EFLI tester with some special attachment or must we each buy a PAT tester?
Mike.Re: Global Warming – Scam Says EU President
Martin wrote:In the forests the trees rot and decay and become a new soil level, soil on soil. The subsoil is compressed and a chemical reaction to that compression creates oil and gas pockets of great magnitude and quantity. We tap those natural resources and fuel our homes and cars. Make plastic tray tables from it and toys for our kids, computer keyboards and sealed washing machine tubs.
For a start, rainforest soils are very thin in general because the tropical climate is so conducive to plant growth that the great majority of organic material is contained in the plants themselves. As soon as any of it becomes available it is taken up. When the forest is opened up and the wood either sold off for timber or just burned on the spot, the thin soil is rapidly degraded under agriculture.The vast oil, coal and gas pockets that we have probably half used up in the last couple of hundred years took millions of years to accumulate. They are not being renewed at anything remotely like the rate we are using them up. This is not something we can afford to be complacent about. Well, not if we have any interest in continuing to live on this planet for as long as possible.
The reason we choose complacency is because we feel powerless.
Mike.Re: meggers
Thanks for your input Brains. I wonder if you can see what I’m getting at because Martin doesn’t seem to be able to see it.
I’ll try and put it simply as possible because either I’m missing something or the rest of the world has got a blind spot where safety testing is concerned.
Following the advice in Martin’s PDF which I’m sure is accepted and acceptable practice:
1. Test earth continuity within appliance with a multimeter. That’s at 9 volts, mark you.2. Test insulation resistance at 500v.
3. Test earth loop impedance at socket with meter which measures earth effectiveness at some 20 amps using the household’s own supply.
What I don’t understand is this. We are not testing the appliance’s own earth path at 240v / 20 amps so what’s the point of testing the supply earth at that level? If the earth path in the appliance were to be insufficiently robust to not break down at 240v / 20 amps or less the fact of the supply earth being good enough would be irrelevant.
OK, it’s a very unlikely scenario but isn’t that what testing should be covering?
Mike.Re: Global Warming – Scam Says EU President
I do think most tree planting to sequester carbon is a bit less than useful.
The most it seems able to achieve is to salve a few consciences, and make a good living for some shareholders and directors of carbon offset companies.
There’ve been one or two science programmes on radio 4 visiting experimenters in South America and in Germany. (IIRC.) The jury is still out as to whether the trees store more carbon during their lifetimes than they give off during and after they die. Even whilst they are growing fast they may be storing no more carbon than grass would in the same land space. When they die and rot down, most of the stored carbon will be returned to the atmosphere. Also a new plantation with species composition chosen by humans is not anything like as biodiverse as a forest growing off it’s own bat.
Preventing the over exploitation of already existing forests is another matter entirely and that I would support wholeheartedly.
Mike.Re: zanussi zwf 1421w
If there’s a circulation pump check it’s OK. If it’s a washer dryer, check drier heater insulation resistance AND try with it disconnected, whatever reading you get. Also check for dampness, condensation on brush holders. When you’ve checked those and they’re all OK, it’s worth a look at pcb.
Mike.
