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Re: Combination microwave ovens >>>>>>>
Are you saying you can’t use your AEG oven because of the aluminium fan? Does the oven have the facility for conventional heating as opposed to fan oven heating? If so you could have the fan blades removed and just use it in conventional oven mode.
Re: Ever date a customer?
My story is a lot more bizarre. About 6 years ago I went to a cooker repair in Elgin. As usual, had a chat with the lady customer but nothing more than that. A year or so later I had a strange phone call from a woman asking me a few personal questions. I thought she must be some sort of crank and got rid of her. Another year or so went by and what I now realise was the same woman rang again. This time she told me I had repaired her cooker and she wanted to know if I remembered her. She mentioned her address and I remembered doing a job in that street but admitted I didn’t remember her herself. I thought she was going to ask me to do another job so was surprised when she ended the call at that point.
Another year or so went by and the same woman rang again. This time she explained that when I had visited her for the cooker job she had been attracted to me and had been thinking about me ever since. She was married but getting a divorce. She asked if she could write to me so we could get to know more about each other. I agreed but suggested we use email rather than post. This went on for a few weeks until I happened to make some minor criticism of something she had said. She hit the roof at that and called me all sorts of things, including an alcoholic :rolls: That was enough for me and I told her I didn’t want anything to do with her. Initially she seemed to accept this and said she would not bother me again.
This did not last long before she was emailing me again every day, pleading for forgiveness etc. I blocked her email address and didn’t hear again for some months. Since then she has still pestered me, mainly by sending cards and letters but she has also turned up at the house a couple of times and phoned a couple of times. At one point she saw a Vincent motorcycle in a local antique shop on sale for £25,000 and she offered to buy it for me as a present 8O. She had now got her divorce and they had sold the house so she had cash in the bank. I told her not to be so stupid as she would need every penny she had to buy another place.
I don’t think she ever did buy another property but she seems to be renting a place in Fochabers, just 3 miles from me. Perhaps she thinks we will get together and she can move in with me. She sounds increasingly troubled in her letters and I do feel sorry for her but I dare not express this as it would be misinterpreted. I can’t reply to her letters as I don’t know her address but she did give her phone number in one of them. I don’t really know what to do but I’m thinking of going to Social Services to see if they can do anything. She clearly has mental health problems but I’m not sure if she can be offered help unless she seeks it herself.Re: BEKO WMA520W – Spin fault
It might be just a faulty speed control triac. I changed one on a Smeg module yesterday.
Re: Whats the most annoying thing customers do?
Martin wrote:
Phidom wrote:
The only way to have done the job would be to disconnect the machine and lift it over the worktop past the offending water heater. 😯You mind you don’t do your back in like I did 😥
It’s OK, I already have :conf:
Re: Whats the most annoying thing customers do?
I had to refuse a job today on a Hotpoint WF860. It was showing F01, motor triac fault so I had gone armed with an old module I could raid for its triac. As most of you will know, these WF models with the Indesit module sitting in the base are a $od to work on at the best of times. This one was in a tiny utility room where you could just about get it out from under the worktop but there was no room for me and the machine because there was also a huge Megaflow water heater in the way. The only way to have done the job would be to disconnect the machine and lift it over the worktop past the offending water heater. 😯
Re: Out of the frying pan into the fire?
If I were you I would be looking to get the extra Corgi tickets to do boilers. There has to be more of a future in central heating than Whitegoods.
Re: New Forum?…..”Medic Advice for engineers”?
Brilliant 8) Could you tell me the minimum and maximum heights so I can make something similar :tup:
Re: New Forum?…..”Medic Advice for engineers”?
I would have said double ovens pose more of a problem than washing machines when it comes to working alone. I have often thought I should make up some sort of hydraulic platform which could be raised level with the oven prior to sliding it out. I have been suffering with my back for the last week or so and I had to change a fan oven element last Friday in a double oven. I was extremely careful and managed to swap the wires from inside the oven so I didn’t have to get to the back. Obviously this is not possible with some elements as they have studs / nuts or whatever.
Re: Combination microwave ovens >>>>>>>
I would not expect any significant differences in construction between your old appliance and currently manufactured microwave ovens. Both probably have plastic fan blades but may have aluminium in the fan motor framework and its rotor core matrix. The rest of the appliance will be plastic, stainless steel, painted mild steel etc with very little aluminium.
Re: Hotpoint 9920 tub front.
Since the time I stripped a virtually brand new Hotpoint and found it had left the factory with its front drum bearing missing, nothing now surprises me 😉 They probably ran out of some part needed for the enamel tub version and used whatever parts were needed to keep production going.
Re: Zanussi FS1055W Overfilling
I’ve now brought the machine to the workshop so I can do more experiments. I took the pressure switch apart and it is only a 2 level type, both of which are working OK. I also tried the different halves of the inlet valve. I found that the “freshen up” programme uses a different solenoid to the prewash, wash and rinse programmes but it still overfills on that as well. It does not actually get high enough to flood but eventually stops filling and the “End” light flashes.
No, I don’t have the TDS disk.Re: robert dunlop
Yes it is hard on his family after Joey Dunlop died in a crash in 2000 and now this 🙁
Re: Hotpoint oven 6142P
Homespare give the dimensions as:
OL= 190mm IDW= 163mm TC= 24mm PW= 10mm PL= 55mm HSC= 25mm TL= xxmm Wattage – 2400W:
If you post the dimensions of the old element I could probably suggest one that will fit. I often select an element based on size if the OE one is too expensive or hard to get. The old spiral bound Homespares book is handy for this as there is a section devoted to fan element dimensions.
Re: NTC
Martin114 wrote:I don’t know why they can’t just call it a “Thermistor” instead of giving an abbreviation that an un-named component has a negetive temperature coefficient.
Yes, it does seem stupid, like referring to the motor as a “rotation”.
