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Re: SMEG bearing change
6 years with noisy bearings?????!!!!!!!!!!!…………HOW???????
You might want to have a look at your drum shaft and rear half of the tub (bearing housing) because i got a bad feeling both will be shot after that sort of time! But you will have to strip it to see the full extent of the damage.
As a rule of thumb from my experience if you have got a lot of play (upwards / downwards) in the inner drum it’s usually a good indication the shaft etc is shot, but as I say you need to strip it to be sure.
I would worry about your carbons later lol
PhilRe: Top loader
Thought miele do a slimline domestic one? Worked on one couple of years back and it was a right pain!
Phil
Re: Any ideas what this is?
Think you might be missing the point, it might be a “cutting in toc” to bring the cooling fan on at a set temperature to keep the timer/ knobs/ fascia/workings etc cool and then cuts the cooling fan back out when temp falls to a safer limit.
Or as you say it could be a normal toc but if your right, why as it overheated to such a degree it took out the toc? That would need checking. Bit like a fuse blowing something makes it do it they don’t just go.
If you’ve got a live to both sides of the element you’ve got a problem somewhere, there should only be live and neutral and of course the earth. Not two lives on a single element.
Where do the wires trace back to on the toc?Phil
Re: Retirement
I know where your all coming from and I do understand, but I think survival is all about flexibility and ability.
There is work out there, that’s for sure. But you might not want to do contract work, or work for work providers, estate agents etc you might only do laundry and not do intergrated, semi commercial, commercial, refrigeration or gas, sell appliances, install appliances etc. You might only want to do a small area, or certain makes, not work early/late or weekends, I really really don’t know and don’t mean to offend but I’m just trying to say there is usually room for movement or advancement it is just if you have the ability and are flexible enough to take it on. You might not like it but work is out there.
I feel private chargeable work now is just a small piece of a big pie with a lot of people wanting that very same piece of the pie because someone else said it tastes good. So you just got to take some of the other pie if that piece as gone.
I keep hearing people say we are like the brown goods? I know it’s a sister trade but apart from that how are we? We ain’t nothing like them, that was only one trade mainly electronics, we have electrics, electronics, plumbing, gas, refrigeration several different types of large appliances etc etc or is it because they are appliances and in a house? That it? It’s like calling us heating engineers, we ain’t but we can sympathise with them too. If we was like them we would of died when they did but we didn’t, because that ain’t our trade and we are not even similar, to my knowledge I have been hearing that one for the last 15-20 years and it still ain’t happened.
Yes if you repair cheaper products people are less likely to have them repaired that is common sense on the customers side why have a day or two off work costing them either time, holiday or money when they can nip to argos and buy a cheap washer on way back from work or sat or Sunday and there ain’t no difference in price or hassle to them and they can install it themselves, job done. think of it would you have yours repaired? Yes we all know the difference in quality etc but those types of customers don’t think on those lines so your banging your head off a brick wall there.
I personally would rather repair a quality appliance or an appliance that causes the customer a real issue like a gas cooker where they need it fixed or will have to pay through the nose to get it replaced or installed (and you can do that as we’ll) or an intergrated appliance where yet again either costs them or it’s a proper pain to exchange or a side by side where the chances are they can’t go get that in the boot or it’s too expensive to replace, perhaps a range cooker etc etc I would rather do 4/5 calls at £65/70 then 7/8 calls at £40/45 any day of the week, from an engineers point of view what is the difference in actual work? Not a lot, but you don’t have to find so much work, people are more willing to have it done, you ain’t got so much competition, you have got more time free and there ain’t much difference in your earnings.
Just my thoughts and sentiments and I hope I haven’t caused any offence, I wish all you lads who are retiring all the best and enjoy your retirement you’ve worked hard for it and losing your skills knowledge and experience is a blow for the trade but the for ones who are left like myself, I feel we have to keep moving to keep up with the moving world otherwise we will be finished, but I don’t believe we are anywhere even close to that.Optimistic Phil
Re: NewWorld NW90G – Grill keeps going out.
If your fan is running albeit it noisy and producing sufficient air flow it ain’t your fan, (the fan on this model as a dual purpose) but you need to know what your doing to see if that is working correctly. So you will need some sort of bodger / gas safe engineer who as been bothered to get training, qualified and years of experience to tell you what you being as clever as you are don’t know, or you could ask someone on the internet who is just as wise as you in this situation and trust their judgment.
Failing that you could always look at perhaps a flame supervision device etc, you know the thing that cuts off the gas to the grill, it just might be that, but, it is a uneducated shot in the dark which after years of just changing parts till it works and charging clever people to much for my limited knowledge, experience and qualifications, happens frequently. but yet again just a guess so you would need that uneducated, under experienced expensive bodger sorry gas safe engineer to fit it because you have to fit it to the gas tap which in turn sits directly on a gas main so it’s a BIG BIG NO NO for you to touch it or even try to diagnose it!
Or it even could be something as simple as cleaning fluid blocking the grill burner if you’ve cleaned the oven recently. But you would need an expensive idiot sorry gas safe engineer yet again to change the grill burner because it’s gas and you quite blatantly don’t know what your talking about.Qualifications and gas safe was brought into stop people like yourself from messing. Basically to stop cowboys and the general public from themselves, and it basically boils down to them just because too tight to pay the going rate for the right person to do the job, so they try to get it done on the cheap or by their “own trustworthy, unqualified, inexperienced hands” and risking peoples lives and homes in doing so just to save a couple of quid.
Winds me up people getting info from the net throwing money at parts (but won’t pay a tradesman though) believing they’ve found the cure when usually it is some other idiot who don’t know the job advising them, then they have the nerve to slag the ones off who do know what they are talking about, have done the training, have got qualified, experienced, paid thousands out, jumped through hoops year in year out to be gas safe registered and we dare to have the audacity to ask to be paid a living for our knowledge. What? How dare we?! I mean everyone else works for nothing after they’ve been trained don’t they?!You need a gas safe engineer for this job end of chat! It won’t be expensive and realistically shouldn’t cost to much when you way up what he as had to go through to even get to your door. It will be a damn site cheaper than a new cooker…… And remember if you have a new cooker you still need that bodger sorry I mean gas safe engineer to install it which will cost you just the same again.
An experienced qualified engineer should have it done in way way under an hour plus necessary parts.Rant over,
Phil
Re: Whats the most annoying thing customers do?
I totally agree, and yes I have read a lot of your posts and yes I feel the same, because I can not see any from you either. Strange that, eh? Oh umm never mind.
Phil
Re: Whats the most annoying thing customers do?
That does explain a lot lee8, I do hope you didn’t get mocked to badly, must of been terrible all the kids mocking you.
It’s ok, we know your special.Sorry couldn’t resist.
Phil
Re: Indesit bought
It will,as usual all come down to cost, and What they can screw everyone for! I dare say that they will play wp off against indesit and vise versa with the threat of job loses, franchises, contracts etc to drive down the price even lower before committing to anything with the promises of a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!
As k says though it’s going to be interesting and it is uncharted waters but someone will be upset and someone will be busy fools and the chances are the only ones who will be happy are wp.Phil
Re: Indesit bought
I don’t know never had much dealings with whirlpool, but I didn’t think there was a lot left of the whirlpool service left in the uk, didn’t they have a similar set up to service force? Looks like they might get busy or go quiet! Depends if they get rid of indesit service in the uk or keep them and bring all the whirlpool stuff in house to indesit, which ever way I can’t see them keeping both separate forever.
Phil
Re: 0800 recruiting engineers ? 32-35 k ote
Not good either lol.
There are a few others out there including manufacturers paying that sort of money with a lot better conditions! It does depend on what the ote consists of and where you live as a rule of thumb.
Phil
Re: CURRYS REPAIR SERVICE – 7 DAYS A WEEK
As far as I know they work a 4 on 3 off system, which basically means the engineers are always working some part of the weekend all but about two weeks in two months or something stupid like that!
Oh and the engineers are still meant to get 5 days work into 4!
As for 600 engineers I don’t know but I seriously doubt it!Phil
Re: NTC cable repairs
Hope I don’t offend or teach a granny how to suck eggs.
Because the pcb measures resistance (that’s why you measure the resistance of both ntc and ptc not just bell them out, hence why the cable size is so small, so there is less resistance) so altering the cable size does matter because it alters the resistance which in turn gives the pcb the wrong resistance reading so the temperature will not be correct.Ntc= negative thermo coefficient so the resistance reading should go down
Ptc= positive thermo coefficient so the reading goes upPhil
Re: NTC cable repairs
Didn’t liebherr or miele used to have a repair kit? Connectors,heat shrink etc
Phil
Re: Miele G1040 Dishwasher intermittant leak
If you have tried all the obvious. Try looking at the side matrix, at the bottom where it slides in there is a little black o ring. Put two on instead of one. Nightmare to find and as had me scratching my head more then a few times! Once I have put two on I have never gone back.
Phil
