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Re: colour catches

Not with me…. I’m gonna tell.. 8)

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Re: HPT BWD 129 washer dryer random lights flashing.

Fitted exchange main board from EMW which seems to have cured it.

Eddie. 🙂

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Re: Hotpoint WMD 967 not draining.

Went back to this one and did the empty the tub,disconnect /reconnect pressure sw pipe, fill with water via door palaver :rolls:

Put it on drain/spin and it went through distribute, ramped up to a slow spin for quite a while and still the pump wasn’t running.
Was just about to switch it off and start pulling it apart again when the pump finally kicked in.

Seems to be working now as I haven’t heard anything from customer since, still no idea why the trip went, machine has no earth leaks.

Thanks again for replies 😉

Eddie.

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Re: Whats the most annoying thing customers do?

Martin wrote:Can the Scots revert to a ‘posh Scottish accent’ depending on if they are fixing a machine in a posh house one minute then a high rise tenement the next? Sort of Duncan Bannatyne turns into Rab C Nesbit depending on the call out charge….?

Bannatyne…posh?? Can’t understand the half of what that fekker says, and I’m a Jock born and bred 🙂

He’s got a fair amount of disposable income no doubt but that alone does not a posh man make 😉

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Re: Hotpoint WMD 967 not draining.

Ah yes, I forgot these late Hotpoints have the strange need to have the pressure switch triggered, maybe I need to have another look at that, got obsessed with the trip going off 😉

It does seem unlikely that a jammed pump would take the board out. I’m not sure what effect on the current draw of the pump a total stall has ?

Thanks for replies, I’ll post my findings 🙂

Eddie.

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Re: Dishwasher leg pressing against gas pipe

twicknix wrote:

Putting the dishwasher back is another matter. Don’t know how they did it in the first place (bruce force springs to mind).

Is that an Australian superhero one can call on to shift stubborn integrated appliances? 😉

Must admit I would be concerned by that foot pushing the gas pipe too, but then I’m totally paranoid when it comes to gas.

It probablywont cause any issues whatsoever but whos to say several years of slamming the dishwashers door and baskets wont jiggle the pipe a bit?

I would prefer to see it raised on a decent bit of wood I must say. 😯

Eddie.

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Re: New UK Washing Machine Manufacturer ?

If they plan on producing just another range of sealed drum, built to meet a price point tat that just about everyone else is churning out then I wish they wouldn’t bother :rolls:

We shall see I guess… 😯

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Re: Dyson CR01 F11 Fault code

Thanks Dave, might have a play with it on a quiet weekend 8)

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Re: Beko Sealed Tanks?

I think it has been sealed drums all round with Beko stuff for a while now, looked at a 3 year old 8kg machine around 6 months ago, it had very fekked bearings and a very sealed outer drum 🙁

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Re: Torx etc.

How are you finding life out there Phidom ? Still doing appliance repairs or have you hung up your tools ? 🙂

Eddie.

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Re: Rogue Trader

How thick do you have to be to appear on BBC prime time and happily screw the benefits system at the same time expecting to get away with it?

Muppet, deserves the time inside :rolls:

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Re: The Internet Is Killing Local Businesses… Really?

Alex wrote:Let’s face it we are all guilty of using the net, and probably moan about the loss of decent local stores in the same breath.

Alex

Absolutely agree Alex, we are all at, shopping online while at the same time bitching about our high streets being full of charity shops and pound stores.

I just cant see where the OP is coming from with the title of this thread 😕
The internet has had a very centralizing effect with regard to retail employment especially IMO , huge sheds on industrial estates spewing out thousands of packages an hour destined for addresses country wide,while thousands of family run local shops close their doors for good.

As for local service businesses, well, your local builder or domestic appliance engineer may well feel he has to have a web presence now, but does it really do much more than a yellow pages or local paper ad used to? I personally get 80{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of new clients through good old word of mouth.
Its not as if a local trader can tout for work in California or Calcutta so I’m not sure there is a huge benefit to the bottom line.

Is the internet killing local business? I truly cant see how it is helping the majority quite frankly.

Eddie.

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Re: The Internet Is Killing Local Businesses… Really?

Kinda depends on what business one is in though Ken does it not?
Around these parts many small businesses have no doubt benefited from the relentless and increasing popularity of the web, all the small B&B’s and hotels with a decent website and small scale food producers making local cheeses and what not who are willing to ship worldwide have no doubt seen their potential customer base expand greatly in recent years.

But then I think of the many independent shops which have disappeared from the high streets of the little towns and villages in my part of the north east highlands in the last four or five years.

An Ironmonger,a car parts supplier,a small electrical retailer, an Insurance broker, 2 ‘music shops’ (instruments and recorded media)a model aircraft shop,a jewelers and two pet shops.
The internet cant be blamed for all of it, the greed and aggressive pricing of supermarkets moving into non food retailing kills local businesses too but I cant help thinking that when you look at the above list of failed ventures they were all in lines which have shifted to the web these days.

Does it matter? Well, life will go on no doubt and people obviously like the choice and convenience just as they do with supermarkets but it sure leaves all of our high streets looking like crap 🙁

Eddie.

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Re: Conventional tumble dryers to cease?

Whats the average running power consumption of these things compared to a conventional dryer does anyone know ?

If its say, half, and the entire UK eventually switched to them, it would have a significant impact on domestic winter energy demand.

If every household running a dryer is using one KW less that amounts to 1GW less for every million households. Around 26 million households in the UK.

The average Nuclear power station is in the hundreds of MW output range.

Maybe cheaper for the Government to dish out free high efficiency dryers than worry about new nuclear installations then :clown:

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Re: Sale of goods act ?

I just cant get over the fact that it’s legal to make someone pay a grand over two and a bit years for a poxy Whirlpool!

No wonder the poor get poorer 😥

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