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I’ve got a 7179 sat outside the workshop – I can check the p/sw in the morning for you. The Zan mini washer was just that – a perfectly conventional miniature washing machine. Alas, even that is mainly obsolete now.
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PenguinDoor seal for Miele commercial a/w – £102 and some pence (But £17 from our Welsh friends ……..).
Penguin.4 flashes is time out fault – last one I went to was no drain in the specified period. Holding dpown the start button usually zeroes everything ready to start again.
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Penguin.You can punch the buttons and go to http://www.baumatic.co.uk as well. If it’s not on the lists then email – they’re quite good.
Penguin.Oh dear. oh dear, probably some helpless call centre operative (note the headset) just had her 20th call of the day – no make/model/serial number. More to be pitied than censured really.
Penguin.Citroens takes me back maybe 20 years – I had a GS Club estate in my executive days – come MOT time, they told me the boot floor wasn’t there any more………. It was a bit of a swine anyway; you couldn’t just jump into it and drive off when you were late for work, you had to sit and wait for it to inflate. Anyway, had a chap come round round and write it off for me – bit annoyed, hadn’t invited him.
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PenguinGood grief,
We’ve let Arsenal supporters on the site? Come on you mighty Cockerels…… I know I live in Leeds, but I was born 400 yds from White Hart Lane so settling for mid table mediocrity has become something of a ritual. Sorry to hear about you tools Eastlmark; it’s a real booger. Trouble is, you don’t realise what was in the box until you come to replace it.
We have an area up here called Gipton; if you work up there, you lock the back doors of the van, but leave the drivers door open – if they want the radio, they can have it – it’s still cheaper than replacing the glass or the locks.
Oh God, I’m getting cynical in my old age.
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Penguin.Before I started getting my hands dirty fixing appliances, I was in purchasing, and ultimately finished up as the white goods spares buyer for a large national retailer beginning with C and rhyming with vomit. We were sourcing spares direct from European and Far East manufacturers for mainly own brand products and our pricing policy was very simple – double it. This was in order to supply our own spares network! The individual branches then added their own mark up in order to show a book profit for the company. They of course, doubled the price!
As an example, a Newpol Super 800 timer (Crouzet 900 series) came in to us at £9.30 + VAT = £10.93. Sale to service depot £21.86. Retail price to customer £43.72. Which was expensive 17 years ago……………… But, nothing seems to have changed.
Anyone noticed that the Blomberg interlock is almost, but not quite identical to the Spanish Balay built Bosch machines? You can buy it Gen from Bosch for about £12, or less if you hunt round the distributors. The lock for the Blomberg is only available from a large national retailer begining with C and rhyming with vomit and cost £46 and some pence. Is a pattern emerging here, all these years later?It’s all links in the chain and everybody wants to take their cut. Even the independent brands are doing it. AKO sell timer to Zanussi (Italy); they sell it to Distripart (Italy), they sell it to Distripart (UK), they sell it to distributor, sells it to wholesaler, sells it to me, sells it to customer. 6 links in the chain, and they’re all making a profit. RIP OFF is closer to the truth.
Miele is what drew my attention to this discussion for what it’s worth. Yes, they are beautifully built machines and very reliable. Went to one last week, timer fault – a Crouzet 889 series programmer; almost identical to the Hoover Logic series – under £50 at your chosen wholesaler – Miele price ———–£249 and some pence. This is taking liberties.As for the Merloni business, it’s very simple. You pay them £10,000 and they will build you any spec washer you want, in any volume you wish, with your own trim (Penguin Washers – I wish (not)) for £78 per unit, ex works. UKWhitegoods washers? It would probably ruin us.
Getting more and more deeply cynical,
Penguin.We use codes on our job sheets, never mind the net.
ND – Nasty dog.
AK – Awkward kitchen
AC – Awkward customer
MM – Mrs Mad
RTFM – applicable to student houses(as above)
My favourite one is:
MFB – Mrs Fluffy Bunny – 10 minutes to do the job, 40 minutes to get out of the house having discussed kids, parentage, schools, that nice Mr Blair etc., over a nice cup of tea.
Only topped bythe
SNAFU – situation normal, all fouled* up.
*an obvious euphemism
AND
Fubar – fouled* up beyond all belief.
*the same obvious euphemism.
Tks + bibi
PenguinDave – don’t want to be a nuisance about this; but followed the link, set the time back to GMT, and it now says it 10.04am on Friday? It was just about midnight when I did it. I might change my user name to Henry Ludd(ite) at this rate …….. Anyway, what happened last time you broke down (or do you drive a Sprinter)?
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PenguinDear Joe,
T’was on a Wednesday evening that the gas man came to call. Spent an hour and a half looking for the pump and threatened to rip up our bedroom floor in the process. Returned home from a long day washing machine bashing just as he left – he told me what had happened or rather, not happened, and I pointed out that as an original 1967 back boiler system, it worked on a thermosyphon principle. His eyes glazed over and he left. Are there any OLD gas engineers in the Leeds area looking for a gig? If they’re retired I’lll make sure it’s cash………
Penguin.Seeing as we’re not doing tools anymore but reminiscing about machines we have loved (or hated); you’ve all forgotten the magnificent, the one and only exploding Hotpoint 1600! And we all think (I hope) that the WMA series is bad…………
Regards,
Penguin.
