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Re: Diplomat 600Ga Door seal advice please

Thanks Dave, I’ll give it a go then and come back and tell you how it went.

Cheers

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Re: Diplomat 600Ga Door seal advice please

“but the oven has to be pulled out to get at 2 screws either side “

Okay, thanks Dave, but pulling the oven out? – Does that mean disconnecting gas pipes because if it does I’m outta here!! LOL

If that is the case then I’d need to get the engineer which adds a significant cost to this job of course.

I’ve just read the link you provided to the part above which describes the various methods of replacing the hinges, most helpful and maybe I am going to have to get the engineer as I value my fingers too much. I take it that the ‘receiver’ is a separate part too and doesn’t come with this hinge? Do UK Whitegoods supply those too?

Many thanks for your guidance, it has been most helpful. All this for a bit of a naff old out of date oven…maybe I’ll have to dig deep for a new one after all…damn.

Thanks
Andrew

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Re: Diplomat 600Ga Door seal advice please

Thanks Dave and Don,

Don, I’d rather not call an engineer quite yet as call-out charges can outweigh the necessity sometimes if I can fix it myself. (I’ve rebuilt a car so am handy enough on mechanical issues (don’t worry, won’t touch the gas!).

Dave, not quite sure what you mean by door ‘latch’ – the hinge is sprung, and the door opens downwards (long handle along the top which pulls towards you and hinged along the bottom) but there is no ‘latch’ as such. No knobs or latches to secure the door, all done through the hinges, but I was wondering about the adjustments and whether there was for this model or not as that would appear to be a sensible solution if the spring or hinge had an adjustment facility. There are philips screws located in the area of the hinge, but they look more like a securing screw for the main facia plate and looking on-line at the hinges for this model they don’t appear from the pictures to show any kind of adjustment availability.

I might need to dig a bit deeper into the hinge area to be certain, but if someone on here knows the model and can tell me from their experience, that would be helpful. New hinges are around £30+ by the looks of things and that would be far cheaper than any call-out charge if I can fit them myself without going anywhere near the gas fittings or having to move the cooker in any way of course. – I don’t ‘do’ gas! (or Water!)

Cheers thus far, we’re getting there.

Andrew

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Re: Diplomat 600Ga Door seal advice please

Thanks for that Don, I have changed the seal now and the problem remains with the closing of this oven door. I thought it may have been the seal. When I purchased the replacement after we bought the house, a couple of years back I bought a clone seal -a cheaper version of the rather pricey originals.

Soon after, I noticed the adjacent doors and draw coating which sit beside the oven door and is a plastic of some sort, melting and distorting from the heat escaping from the gap as the door was not sitting true or upright as it should.

Thinking I’d suffered from a duff purchase I ordered the costlier original seal but found it was identical to the cheaper one I’d bought so I just kept the original as a spare. That’s the one I’ve just fitted now.

The hinges, to be honest, seem to be working okay tension wise, they don’t appear to be broken, but could these hinges suffer some kind of internal failure which might cause the door not to close properly would you think?

There’s a push-button on the frame of the oven which appears to be some kind of electrical trip which would be depressed as the door closes, but that does not get compressed now yet doesn’t seem to make any difference to the operation of the oven, that worries me.

Any thoughts at all on why this door might be failing to close? I need to sort this as I can’t afford a new cooker quite yet, heat is escaping and I’ve already ruined one large cupboard door to the right of the oven and 2 draws to the left.

Any help much appreciated.

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Re: Diplomat 600Ga Door seal advice please

An ADP 0150 indeed Don and thank you very much for replying.

Gives the serial number too 50109573

Model number as above: 050502078

Much appreciate the help
Andrew

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Re: Miele W970 Washing Machine – check inlet warning problem

Hi folks, a result!

Having replaced the Inlet valve and the motor brushes with absolutely no effect on the silly check Inlet light. The thing still lit, I decided to spend out on a professional.

In he came, opened the front, looked inside and saw a thin rubber tube running down the r/hand side of the machine floating around. This tube is some kind of a vacuum tube which is fitted to the sensor light I have been trying to turn off. It had come adrift when I was fiddling about and what it was doing was informing the machine there was a problem filling the machine. 5 seconds later he had it reconnected by just pushing it on the lug and hey presto the machine fired up again as it should.

The moral in this story is despite what experience you have, if it’s not on washing machines get professional help, especially on the higher spec machines. :clown:

However, I was smarting at the cost of the call out, but this fellow did a diagnostic on the machine by placing some kind of light sensor sticky connector straight onto the facia plate covering the said light (where it says PC). He downloaded an energy efficient update and gave me a whole load of activities the machine has performed since new. Gobsmacking stuff for a washing machine – (had a hotpoint before and that was a tin box by comparison)

So, problem resolved. Thanks for all the contributions and finally, the little spring clip strip of metal I wondered about is actually a tensioner sitting under the lip of the facia panel. Meile sent me a diagram.

Now to get on with the ironing, but the Mrs is happy!

Thanks folks.

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Re: Miele W970 Washing Machine – check inlet warning problem

Hi thanks, glynskipper.

Funny you should say that. We’ve had a couple of instances where that red light has come on in the past, but it seemed to clear and then work okay. I have removed all hoses including that bottom one, but there was something in my mind I felt uneasy about when I was putting it back.

Between the drum base and the bend in that bottom tube there is a large white ball. Between the ball and the top of the Tube is a large plastic washer with a hole in it’s centre which also has some kind of plastic hood which directs the water I guess. The rubber which the ball sets into when it reaches that hole appears a little frayed, just a little rough through usage and I suppose a small amount of water may get through when the ball should be stopping it flowing – would that make a difference significant enough to cause this light to engage?

Also speaking of that ‘hood’ as I call it built into this large washer – does it matter which way the opening in the hood is facing? Left or Right? I can’t see any obvious reason, but these machines are finely balanced I am told it could make a difference.

Finally, if you know this particular machine (Meile W970 Novotronic) can you identify what this part may be?

It is a small slither of polished metal 4 cm long and looks like the top of a pair of glasses frame with 2 curves separated by a bridge: It seems to have come loose from somewhere in the machine, but I cannot for the life of me see where, somewhere near the inside of the door I think.

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