20-11-2013, 11:09 PM
The worst I have ever seen was a 1980s Coulston washer/drier.
Three door timers under warranty. It was given to me as scrap after my parents inherited it from my grand mother shortly after the 1 year warranty ran out. My grand mother hung onto her gas mangle for dear life for years even when the flat was all electric. Who could blame her. She was right.
I took the part off and it had been so hot that it crumbled like a crisp and had contacts that could not have been rated at more than 5 amps with a 2000W dryer running from it in addition to the thermal timer element.
The price for a replacement was more than a mate of mine had just paid for a real motorised ford car door lock in the same month.
I did not buy one. It got fixed with a V5 micro-switch and the machine was sold with a note that the door timer had been removed due to a fire risk. The work mate I sold it to never came back with any problems.
All that rubbish just because a safety officer thinks that some idiot might open the door while it is spinning and thrust there arm in rapidly enough that the drum will still be rotating.
The risk of a power interruption during the boil wash is much greater so you are still at a much greater risk of getting scolded feet.
We were lucky when the 1960s machine we had broke down as the water had cooled down before the door was opened. When I fixed it for the same fault 20 years later I got the pump to spin without opening the door and there was no mess.
Three door timers under warranty. It was given to me as scrap after my parents inherited it from my grand mother shortly after the 1 year warranty ran out. My grand mother hung onto her gas mangle for dear life for years even when the flat was all electric. Who could blame her. She was right.
I took the part off and it had been so hot that it crumbled like a crisp and had contacts that could not have been rated at more than 5 amps with a 2000W dryer running from it in addition to the thermal timer element.
The price for a replacement was more than a mate of mine had just paid for a real motorised ford car door lock in the same month.
I did not buy one. It got fixed with a V5 micro-switch and the machine was sold with a note that the door timer had been removed due to a fire risk. The work mate I sold it to never came back with any problems.
All that rubbish just because a safety officer thinks that some idiot might open the door while it is spinning and thrust there arm in rapidly enough that the drum will still be rotating.
The risk of a power interruption during the boil wash is much greater so you are still at a much greater risk of getting scolded feet.
We were lucky when the 1960s machine we had broke down as the water had cooled down before the door was opened. When I fixed it for the same fault 20 years later I got the pump to spin without opening the door and there was no mess.
