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Re: New way to replace Bosch brushes.
Hi Chris, I was beginning to think you were on holiday 😆 .
Mike.Re: Electrolux EW1006F
I think you could be on the right track. If you look at EMW’s page of Zanussi timers and click on the details for each timer, you’ll see that for some of them sticking on wash or rinse programmes is a common fault.
Would recommend a call to Tony first.
Mike.Re: New way to replace Bosch brushes.
Well if we accept that this sharing of information is inevitable and unstoppable and perhaps even desirable by some accounts, and that the effect on our trade is minimal, then why do we need to have the site split into trade and public areas? Should we not just open the whole thing up?
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Mike.Re: SGS43A12GB/27 sticking at 48 mins
No fault found on or around heater and it is heating. Brought module away for close inspection. Checked the three 5v relays. All seem fine, though didn’t open them up. Module has that immaculate look that screams at you, “there’s nothing wrong with me, you’re barking up the wrong tree”. No way am I going to risk £70+ for a new module, so it’s back to machine, re-install, quick check over and explain situation, then gracefully exit stage right.
Unless anyone’s got any better ideas.
Mike.Re: F- Gas
I got the letter too. E-mailed them to tell them I don’t need a cert. (don’t do Refr.) but thanking them for the 2 sheets of expensive quality paper printed on one side only which I have loaded into my printer for re-use. 😆
Mike.Re: New way to replace Bosch brushes.
iadom wrote:
I still do between 5 or six sets of 1600474 carbons every week, including other makes about 10 to 12 brush changes a week.Jim.
Well, Jim, 10 to 12 brush changes a week would be enough on its own for me to have made my living. (Albeit that my middle name is Frugal).As it is I’m lucky if I get one or two. The rest are(looking back in my diary for the last week) Zanussi grill element, AEG dw module repair, DF23 no fault found(nff), WHP gas t/d -job withdrawn, T/Bx wm nff, Creda t/d reversing timer, WMA bearings & spider, BSH wm nff,Indesit old wm on/off, BSH dw poss module repair, Zan t/d belt & bearings, Servis module repair. (A fairly typical week – at least it was interesting).
No brush jobs, no door seals (although a bloke did call me about doing one but then did it himself, I was gonna charge him £20/25 labour), no pumps, no filters (well I usually do those over the phone anyway but I’m wondering if I should change that policy) and no oven elements. (Not had an oven element for a couple of months now!)
I’m sure I’m not the only one who would be interested to know what percentage of your work load the brush jobs represented and whether that has changed over the last six months, year?
Mike.Re: connects parts specification message
Done that two or three times. Around two to three days would be normal IME. I find them very helpful. Just because the organisation is a big bad wolf, doesn’t mean the ordinary people who work there are like that.
Mike.Re: New way to replace Bosch brushes.
robbra wrote:if I could see a video of how to get into a Bosch dishwasher then I would pay ££££££s for it.
Next time I do one, could be 6 months or so ’cause I don’t get that one too often, I’ll take my camcorder and tripod along. How many of those £ things did you have in mind? 😆
Also, I’m going off to do a WMA bearing change tomorrow. If anybody would like me to film it and is willing to pay appropriate fees, DVD, CD or VHS, whatever you like, let me know before 9am, so I can pack the gear. 😆
Mike.Re: New way to replace Bosch brushes.
Further thoughts today. OK after reading Martin’s post I can see that so far no harm seems to have been done with one very short video that hasn’t apparently been picked up by many people. (Word of mouth over the long term could yet see it take off, don’t relax yet Chris 😆 ).
Thing is these last few months, years even, I just seem to have been getting fewer and fewer easy peasy, straightforward, bread and butter jobs . I’m not asking for it to be plain sailing all the time, it never was, but Bosch brushes were until recently providing about 15{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} (very approximately) of my income. That has dropped to around 5{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} over the last 6 months. This is probably explained by other factors totally unconnected to You-tube etc. but it would be easy for anyone with a similar experience to jump on Penguin’s video.
I guess it’s just like Ceset brushes which seemed to fall before that and Hotpoint before them. Can’t all be down to DIY’ers. And even if it is, good luck to ’em I say.Still an’ all, can’t see why shop@ couldn’t make a whole series of short, high quality, COPYRIGHTED, DVDs/CDs for SALE to the general public. A discount on spares could be given to those who bought the videos. This could be an opportunity to make even more money to keep the site afloat.
I wouldn’t mind volunteering to be a film star myself 😉 as long as the pay is right. 😆
Mike.Re: New way to replace Bosch brushes.
I can see your point perfectly well Ken, and I for one am not blaming UKW or the internet for the decline in our trade. It is absolutely NOT that.
What bothers me a little is that this video is put up for anyone with internet access to find. This must encourage more DIY’ers to do their own.
As has been said, that’s fine for parts sales (as long as they don’t then find them cheaper on flea-bay) but not so good if it’s fewer jobs for the repair industry. (Even if the decline is inevitable and unstoppable why do we need to lead it?)I’m with ddirect’s idea of paying a subscription if that would really help to remove the need for UKW to lead the information availability revolution.
Also I don’t see why info can’t be restricted to folks who actually support us by buying spares.
Mike.Re: New way to replace Bosch brushes.
Martin wrote:
leavemetogetonwithit wrote:
Another thing is, it bugs me when I go to an appliance and find the panels off already and things have been messed about with by some amateur. (I mess about with stuff I don’t fully understand, too, but I don’t then call in a professional.)Now, if I may just butt in on this point Mike, but that is somewhat contradictory don’t you think? OK so the panels are off but the guy has called you and it’s not a lost cause but more your gain surely?
Well I suppose if he doesn’t mind paying for the extra time I have to spend finding where all the screws and wires go back to. But unfortunately I often find myself accepting all that as the rough with the smooth so as not to see it go to landfill.
Mike.Re: WIL133 f03 (ntc) + can’t switch off.
Thanks for that Jim. I’ve ordered a board from EMW, reasoning that repairing this piece of junk is in the customer’s best interest on this occasion. Reason being that if I didn’t fix it they’d be going to buy something of equal or inferior quality, probably with a sealed tub.
Yesterday went to look at a Servis Easiwash bought in 1996. The door handle had broken, first problem in its life. I remember seeing them in the shop windows around that time and thinking, “Can it get any worse?” 😆 Little did I know.
Incidentally, anybody know what causes the constant fill? Just so the new board doesn’t blow up when I switch on.
Mike.
