01-03-2014, 10:34 PM
I don't insure appliances as they can be repaired. I have washing machine brushes in stock and even some gas boiler parts too. I never buy a fridge/freezer but always singles. When they are under warranty It takes days on end getting the shop to send an engineer. If I fix one of those it is a trip to the tip or chop the thing up and save the metal. The plastic fits in one black bag for disposal.
Don't worry about the gas as I had to learn about it back 30 years or more ago.
We had oil central heating and my parents had the servicing done by the same company that supplied the fuel.
We used to get dizzy in cold weather and one day it broke down and I got to have a look at the thing.
Once I had fitted the new part the fuel air mixture needed setting up as the setting parts had to come off during the repair.
I set this up from memory having seen the adverts from those little Colourtune kits in motoring magazines and that was that. I was expecting the thing to take about 40 minutes to heat up so that the thermostat clicked off.
Just under 20 minutes later it cut off and I was cursing the thing and wondering what the hell was wrong with it.
It was piping hot and the safety cut outs were all still set.
The second fault was buying the fuel and getting the servicing done by the same company.
It also fixed the dizzy cold weather too.
The fuel supplier contacted us asking whom was under cutting there fuel prices.
A new broom sweeps clean once a service contract is ended on one of those beasts.
The last repair I did was on the gas here.
It was green spot on the brass sensor tube that detects birds nests in the flue. The whole thing had to be stripped down to get to the faulty part and the new sensor switch ordered from E-bay remains in stock.
How did Colourtune work?
You watched burning fuel through a window (a clear glass spark plug) and the colour of the flame tells you what is burning in the combustion chamber.
The flame burns yellow as hydrocarbon fuel burns to carbon and carbon monoxide.
Then it burns blue from carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide.
Then it goes out with a splutter and a pop if there is too much air.
You get the extra energy from burning the carbon monoxide when it is set up correctly and this was the selling point of the kits. It made the car go faster and further on a tank of fuel.
Fixed boilers should all have a window to look into the combustion chamber and that is all I need now and all hydrocarbon fuels are basically the same when it comes to setting these critical adjustments up.
It gets fixed as fast as the E-bay seller can get the parts to me.
Don't worry about the gas as I had to learn about it back 30 years or more ago.
We had oil central heating and my parents had the servicing done by the same company that supplied the fuel.
We used to get dizzy in cold weather and one day it broke down and I got to have a look at the thing.
Once I had fitted the new part the fuel air mixture needed setting up as the setting parts had to come off during the repair.
I set this up from memory having seen the adverts from those little Colourtune kits in motoring magazines and that was that. I was expecting the thing to take about 40 minutes to heat up so that the thermostat clicked off.
Just under 20 minutes later it cut off and I was cursing the thing and wondering what the hell was wrong with it.
It was piping hot and the safety cut outs were all still set.
The second fault was buying the fuel and getting the servicing done by the same company.
It also fixed the dizzy cold weather too.
The fuel supplier contacted us asking whom was under cutting there fuel prices.
A new broom sweeps clean once a service contract is ended on one of those beasts.
The last repair I did was on the gas here.
It was green spot on the brass sensor tube that detects birds nests in the flue. The whole thing had to be stripped down to get to the faulty part and the new sensor switch ordered from E-bay remains in stock.
How did Colourtune work?
You watched burning fuel through a window (a clear glass spark plug) and the colour of the flame tells you what is burning in the combustion chamber.
The flame burns yellow as hydrocarbon fuel burns to carbon and carbon monoxide.
Then it burns blue from carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide.
Then it goes out with a splutter and a pop if there is too much air.
You get the extra energy from burning the carbon monoxide when it is set up correctly and this was the selling point of the kits. It made the car go faster and further on a tank of fuel.
Fixed boilers should all have a window to look into the combustion chamber and that is all I need now and all hydrocarbon fuels are basically the same when it comes to setting these critical adjustments up.
It gets fixed as fast as the E-bay seller can get the parts to me.
