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Re: Enough to make you vomit…
Penguin45 wrote:Yesterday……..
remove 3/4s of (very dead) mouse from the commutator. Megger the damn thing, no leakage, so pop it back in and fire it up. It runs and very quickly starts to smell……. Not electricky, more sort of cooking……..
Chris.
They’re nicer fried.
Re: Connect delivery charges
maltheviking wrote:
roly16 wrote:
so I told her that Qualtex are, in general, much cheaper and give an excellent personal service.Steady on Geoff, what sort of personel service you been getting? 😆
😉
Not that sort; Jimmy the van driver isn’t my type. 😯
Re: What are the best quality bearings and where do you buy
Somebody once told me that the reason we can buy bearings so cheaply is that even though they may be a good quality make, they are very slightly out of tolerance for use in other industries. This doesn’t matter in our business, but they may have been rejected for, say, military or aircraft use.
Whether it’s true or not I don’t know, but it sounds reasonable. Could explain turbo’s experience.
Geoff
Re: Connect delivery charges
Connect seems to have woken up to the increased competition they’ve been getting recently. I got a phone call today from a nice young lady called Amy who asked me why I’ve been spending less with them over the last year or so, so I told her that Qualtex are, in general, much cheaper and give an excellent personal service.
She told me they’ve taken on six new account managers [including her] to look after their smaller clients, who they must have noticed have been spending less recently. She knew exactly how much I’ve spent each month this year and last and said I should find that the prices I’m quoted should start coming down.I mentioned about how their trade prices are very often higher than the manufacturers’ retail prices but she didn’t pass comment on that one.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens over the next few weeks.
Geoff
Re: HOTPOINT FFA64 – Fridge area
Hi Brenda,
If the back wall of the fridge is frosting up in an even rectangular pattern the refrigeration system is likely to be working ok. If there’s an uneven lump of ice building up, or only part of the back wall is frosting up in an irregular shape, the system [i.e. compressor or refrigerant charge] is at fault.
It sounds to me as if one of the thermistors [temperature sensors] is faulty or out of calibration, but on that model they aren’t replaceable. I think it’s unlikely to be the pcb or diverter valve but somebody else may have other ideas.
Geoff
Re: indesit, worst kept secret.
Turbo wrote:Very sad news indeed, another step towards us being a third world country. Give it 50 years 😥
GrahamAs long as that ❓
Re: Bernstein!
Well, the Bernstein saga that began 4 1/2 years ago came to an end for me, as an ex-service agent, this week, and presumably for a few more of you as well. I received a £330 dividend cheque from the administators for about 30{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of the amount they owed me, which was considerably more than I had ever expected.
I had just joined UKW at the time. Reading the postings suggesting that the administration might be about to happen, I was just in time to stop my £300 cheque that I’d sent them for spares a few days earlier, and lo and behold, it happened just as predicted a day or two later.
That was the first useful thing that UKW did for me, only a few days after joining.
Geoff
Re: Bosch WAA 28161GB/09
Phidom wrote:Ooooops! Since I heard about the Zanussi sealed tanks (worked on my first one on Friday with jammed drum) I have been recommending Bosch. Who do I recommend now? 😕
ISE?
Re: Free Training from Proctor & Gamble
Lawrence wrote:IThen I attended a UKW soap tech training session and my eyes were opened ,I learnt a hell of a lot and am not ashamed to admit it & I bet there were others like me as well.
LawrenceAbsolutely.
Geoff
Re: possiable re-gas needed
Whoa!! It’s time to get a refrigeration service engineer in now. Don’t go unbrazing any pipework.
If it is blocked it will be in the capillary, not the evaporator. He’ll test the system before doing anything else.
Re: zanussi fjdr 1666w
Didn’t think you were old enough to have grandchildren Bob 😯
It must be the job that keeps you looking so young.
But yes thanks; I’m keeping well; hope you are too.
Geoff
Re: possiable re-gas needed
Compressor short-cycling; yes possibly, I didn’t think of that one. But if it is, why is there a build-up of ice on the suction line and beginning of the evaporator? If the defrosting cycle is correct that shouldn’t be there, whatever the compressor is doing. Could the defrost cycle be cutting off too soon, before the top section has had a chance to defrost?
Ken wrote: A gas leak would have manifested itself inside 3 months, not 3 years.
If it was there from new, yes, but badly brazed joints can open up or pipes crack at any time. I repaired a 3 or 4 year old Hotpoint fridge freezer recently with a pinhole in the delivery line about half an inch from the compressor stub, and have no idea how it occurred.
