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Re: Stacked machines 🙁
Penguin45 wrote:That’ll be a tandem then Mike……… 😀
Chris.
Excellent idea Chris. Bit of company on my rounds. 😀
Mike.Re: Pay as you go
There is some hope that technology will come to the rescue but it is a very close call as to whether the necessary advances will arrive in time.
Oil production is thought to be just about at its peak while demand is set to rise and rise (China, India, Brazil and others are needing more and more). No significant new finds have been made of late. Even increased exploration and clever stuff from geologists financed by the increasing price has failed to turn up new fields. Nothing gives the same EROI (energy return on investment) as oil. Coal is not as energy rich and (witness China just a couple of days ago, plus our own history) is not so easy to get out of the ground. “Clean coal technology” is not imminent and even if it was we would still be left with a huge waste disposal problem from it. (What you are no longer allowed to pump into the atmosphere has to be captured and disposed of somewhere, somehow.)
Hydrogen fuel cells are NOT a source of energy they are just a storage mechanism like a rechargeable battery. You have to use more energy to produce the hydrogen than you get back from the fuel cell.
Using what remains of the easy, energy-rich oil to make ourselves ill by sitting in traffic jams doesn’t make any sense to me.
But hey, I’ve no worries. No kids so why should I care about the future?
Think I’ll go to bed now and get a nice peaceful sleep (neighbours permitting) ready for my 25 mile /8 jobs ride tomorrow. 😀
Mike.Re: Stacked machines 🙁
If the customer can afford the extra to install it thus, in fact if they can afford a fitted kitchen then they can afford a 2 man call out. Maybe I’ll start asking about accessibility in future when I’m booking in. Save getting there prepared for a 15 min brushes job only to find I’ve got to spend ages shifting furniture about. 😉
Mike.Re: AEG Lavamat 74620
Have you tried keeping the lock outside but connected so you can check what is happening when the programme finishes. That is whether or not the live or(more usually) the neutral is being switched off at the end?
If it isn’t then it’s gotta (I say with some doubt) be either the timer/board or wires/connections from it to the lock.
I don’t usually re-install a lock till I’ve functionally checked it in this way. Saves a little time sometimes although such problems are uncommon, IME.
Mike.
PS Since the thing was heard chattering that suggests it wasn’t switching off properly.Re: Pay as you go
No offence taken and I agree with some of what you say about uselessness of governments etc.
I would strongly disagree with your opinion that the governments are under strong influence of the green lobby. (It was fuel protests that brought this government to its knees in Sept. 2000 causing them to do a sharp U-turn on carbon tax). I don’t think very many people or politicians are listening to the warnings from the green movement. That’s because the implications are too painful. It’s easier just to bury your head in the sand. Politicians have little choice, in a democracy, but to bow to the will of the majority. However, the fact that they are trying to control traffic levels and reduce congestion and carbon emissions should ring alarm bells inside your head. They don’t need to do this to raise revenues. That is just not what it’s about. Revenues will continue to rise iexorably as petrol prices rise due to the ever increasing dominance of supply over demand*. If the best brains in the country are trying to control traffic levels and pollution at vast expense and with no guarantee that it will work then you can be sure they’re worried about something. IMO that something is 1.the future of energy provision due to oil/gas depletion and 2. the effects of climate change.
Mike.
Edit: * I meant to say demand over supply.Re: Indesit WIDL126UK no power
Seamy wrote:….. staff say it seems to fill as its spinning & pumping out at end & when machine is finished they can see water level just at holes in drum, ….
Probably you’ll find that the members of staff who actually use it are absent when you arrive. Reckon you should treat this kind of fault report with scepticism. Probably just a blocked filter. 😉
Mike.Re: Indesit WIDL126UK no power
If this(first mentioned)machine has an on/off switch that would be the first thing that I would check especially that we now know that the door lock is not coming on. Always try the obvious first especially when it’s the most easily accessible!
Mike.Re: Pay as you go
kwatt wrote:
leavemetogetonwithit wrote:
It comes down to a more localised economy. Even your food will be grown closer to where you live.Absolute claptrap, just environmentalist propoganda.
Of course a lot of these supposed ills are based on flaky science and supposition, not in fact very often.
K.Er, thanks for the compliment Ken. 😀
MikeRe: Pay as you go
I don’t see this causing any big problems to our jobs even if it came about. You would just charge more for jobs further afield or turn them down. Your nearest competitor a few miles down the road would do likewise. Thus, instead of as now running around trying to take each others’ customers you would each tend to stick closer to your own patch and would thus enjoy definite time gains as well as fuel savings and ultimately a cleaner environment. 😀 It comes down to a more localised economy. Even your food will be grown closer to where you live.
Alternatively you can go on racing around as you do now (and I think you will for some time yet 🙁 ) suffering all the stress and expense of the 200 mile day until your health finally fails or you go bust due to the continually rising cost of fuel.
Mike.Re: Indesit WIDL126UK no power
Checked interlock? Checked on/off switch?
Sorry to state obvious but you only mention suppressor.
Mike.Re: home brew
I did it for a while when I was hard up.
It was interesting for a time but now the kit sits in the loft waiting to be taken to the charity shop. Just as soon drink squash, frankly.
Enjoy the occasional Leffe. Quality over quantity.
Mike.Re: meile
Sorry, can’t help. But looks like no one else can either, so far.
Therefore is it instruction manuals or service manuals required?
Are you aware that Miele appliances normally have a circuit diagram including timer chart tucked in behind the front panel somewhere. Bit like Indesit and Zanussi used to have under the lid only more comprehensive and requiring some intuitive understanding of Deutch; or ask Martin.
Mike.
