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Re: blomberg cff299
Why are there so many different ‘fridge and ‘fridge freezer stats when I’ve used VC1, VT9 in 96.237{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of cases?
(Actually my main reason for posting this is to get a full house top six or so on this forum). How sad is that?
Top eight! Triumph!
Re: Hotpoint WMA61
I’ve only ever done one WMA bearing change. Thereafter directed them to the 5 year parts warranty.
I took all the bits off and put them in the next room out of harms way.
I laid the machine onto its front to drop the drum out then pulled the cabinet back upright leaving the drum on the floor.Like for Zan splits only backwards. Is that how you’s do it?
Mike.Re: AEG door gasket problem
Incidentally, why have I had a spate (2) of call outs to these seals with a torn lower lip recently?
Mike.Re: What’s a BER?
You burning the midnight oil too, Andy?
I would think they wouldn’t notice if the brushes went as the movement of the ship would keep the washing moving. 🙂Re: WMA44 no motor action
I sometimes came across machines with oil all over the dry side of the boot. Eventually it dawned on me that a clever Cornishman, or other nationality perhaps, had smeared it there to stop it rubbing against itself and developing a hole.
Now I do this whenever I fit a new 1603006. I’ve only ever fitted 2 WMA seals.Maybe 3.
Re: What’s a BER?
I guess I got a bit brassed off with Miele when I had to do a brush job on a WS5425 commercial recently. And as it was in a nursing home there was old soap powder all over the floor and I got covered in it. Nor much room in the utility room so getting the motor off and back on again was far more awkward than it would have been with a nice little Beko.
Now, I hear you say, you don’t need to take the motor off just the plastic brush ring assembly. But a) I didn’t know that beforehand, and b) I’m not at all sure I could have got the assembly back on properly working on a tilted back machine. (Maybe you’re supposed to lay it on its back?)From the vast majority of customers’ viewpoint they want something that does the washing not some expensive piece of state of the art engineering. Now I daresay Miele can take some loads in their stride but when something does fail the parts are big bucks. (Except of course the pattern brushes for the older ones).And yeah I know there’s a ten year guarantee on domestic ones. (So that would be even less work for us indys if everyone had a Miele).
There are tons more Beko’s out there than Mieles so we’re bound to see tons more of them. But I wonder how much higher the failure rate is and whether two Bekos on average wouldn’t outlast one Miele.
It’s a bit like Duracell at £3.99 for 8 or Golden Power at £1 for 24. Buy Duracell for smoke alarms but Golden Power for wall clocks.My most cherished argument is that by committing £700 (?) to the next 10/25 years’ washing you lose out on the accelerating drive towards energy efficiency /water efficiency/ bigger doors/ capacity etc. which you’d have been in a position to take advantage of if you’d bought the machine of the masses.
Mike. 🙂Re: AEG door gasket problem
Penguin45 wrote:I have to say that any sort of lubricant makes the gasket impossible to fit. Like the spring, it has to be stretched to fit and I have never succeeded.
Chris.
Penguin I don’t understand. Oh,I see, you’ve never succeeded using the lubricant.
I did one today(LW1259),having read your post beforehand, I didn’t put any lube on. It wasn’t too difficult, using bits of wood to keep the “on” stretches in place. I noticed there are “teeth” around the edge/lip of the tub, presumably to keep the seal from slipping round.Lovely machines IMO except for having to keep changing from torx to Philips and back again. (Short focus going a bit these days,perhaps too much screen radiation).
Mike.Re: What’s a BER?
Come on, surely somebody out there wants a full half hour argument 😮
Beko vs Miele? I’d been expecting brickbats 😮Re: Beko
Goatboy wrote:Every Beko I’ve been to have had a FUBARed module 🙁
🙁
FUBARed ❓ (F’d Up Beyond Aconomical Repair?) I’m no good at these acronyms. 😕
You could pm me if it’s too rude.
Mike, the Beko fanclub.Re: Indesit W1L143S
You realise that if the bearings are really done for and there’s any damage to the brass ring of the spider, it’s a BER ❗
(Just had to try out my new found vocabulary 😉 ).
MikeRe: yell.com
If there were 160 of us on repairs@ it would be £55 +vat each or thereabouts ❓ That I could easily afford.(After this good month).
Mike.Re: WMA44 no motor action
iadom wrote:
leavemetogetonwithit wrote:
We replace the motor (easier than replacing the brushes).Why ❓
Because he is not ‘Independent’ 😉I think I see 💡 . He works for Hotperloni(?). He puts in a new motor for which the insurers pay (thus keeping up the insurance price) 😕 . By some obscure route we can buy the old motors as re-conditioned (i.e. with new brushes). And everybody’s happy. ❓
Mike.Re: Advice sought to repair cooker module Electrolux EPSOPMS
Brains,
😳 Sad to say I don’t know what the triac is controlling. “A1” goes by a track all the way round the houses to neutral (as in w m’c motor controls) and “A2” to a multi connector which I didn’t trace when I was there! Still methinks it must be the fan as it’s too small(?)(BTB08), and so is the connector, to control an element.Once I get the oven going 😉 I’ll be tempted to send you the old pcb so you can satisfy any remaining curiosity you may have about it.(Have to admit mine is just about exhasted ❗ )
New bit should be here tomorrow.Hope someone’ll be home to sign for it 🙄 .
Will update as and when. Have you noticed the high number of views this is getting? Shouldn’t you be charging for all this training/consultancy?
Mike.Re: WMA44 no motor action
jimbo2207 wrote: We replace the motor (easier than replacing the brushes).
Why ❓
Re: yell.com
I tried an ad in Yellow pages couple years back.(Half price 1st year).
Got about 6 jobs for my £200 mostly quite distant.
That despite careful design of ad to make it absolutely clear where I was based.
I believe they gave me a free listing in Yell.com with that but I’ve never found it.
I doubt that any region-wide advertising can work economically for businesses distant from major concentrations of population. If it did, they’d put the price up!Maybe the internet will work eventually for us but at the moment I think it’s only economic if it’s free.(e.g.repairs@).And I haven’t even signed up for that myself because I cover such a small population that, IMO, £12 extra on insurance would be unlikely to be merited. (I calculated that repairs@ would need to be generating about 10,000 call outs per year nationally before I would get 4 jobs for my 25,000 constituency)
I might yet sign up though just as a tiny gesture of support for a site that’s given me a great deal. 😀
