classic33
Leg End Member
Slowmotion was quicker typing.D'oh ...
Sorted!
bale repair tape. 3 inchs wide by 20 metres long. £1.70
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bale repair tape. 3 inchs wide by 20 metres long. £1.70
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Really, the best bit about fixing/bodging these gadgets is the point raised by @I like Skol. A massive two fingers to the Customer Service/ Extended Warranty/ £100 call out brigade.
Priceless!
Priceless!
classic33
Leg End Member
Priceless is the look on their faces when you tell them you got it working again, at a fraction of what they were going to charge you to do it.Really, the best bit about fixing/bodging these gadgets is the point raised by @I like Skol. A massive two fingers to the Customer Service/ Extended Warranty/ £100 call out brigade.
Priceless!
swee'pea99
Squire
I got round to reading the manual and finding out how ours works, so now I can very easily set it up so it will switch on at 6.20, meaning the chippies will be perfect by 7, then I can go to the pub. Yay!
classic33
Leg End Member
Bit early in the day to be going to the pub. 7 in the morning?
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Couldn't you hurry along your departure for the pub by not using the timer?
Reynard
Guru
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
[QUOTE 4748346, member: 9609"]If its anything like the genuine replacement element I keep buying for our NEF oven, you will become a dab hand at swapping them over, seem to have to do ours once a year - I keep a spare ready to go now. - I think the real genuine genuine nef part is about £75 but the ebay genuine parts are only a tenner.[/QUOTE]
I found a place that supplies genuine parts at a good price - think I paid around £20 for the Zanussi one...
I found a place that supplies genuine parts at a good price - think I paid around £20 for the Zanussi one...
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
It's a bit like the 1941 Singer sewing machine that mum dug out of a skip a few years ago. Nothing wrong with it at all, it even had all the attachments. Only the case was bust.
And it's still my first pick when it comes to sewing.
And it's still my first pick when it comes to sewing.
classic33
Leg End Member
Treadle powered, or converted to electric?
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Electric, actually
I also have three Singer hand crank machines similarly acquired.
I learnt to sew with one.
classic33
Leg End Member
Worth more if it hadn't been converted to electric.Electric, actually
I also have three Singer hand crank machines similarly acquired.
KnackeredBike
I do my own stunts
[QUOTE 4748351, member: 9609"]10 minute job and 5 years on it is still working.[/QUOTE]
That's about four years longer than a new Dyson would last.
I used to repair appliances for a living and as a sideline get scrap machines (you can buy them by the container load), fix them up and sell them to people who's machine wasn't repairable. About half of the "scrap" machines had faults that could be fixed within ten minutes.
So much stuff we throw away nowadays could be easily repaired if it wasn't for the manufacturer's making it as difficult as possible because they make more money having a slew of brands - so when your Crapnonics TV breaks you just buy a Buggervision one instead which identical internals.
That's about four years longer than a new Dyson would last.
I used to repair appliances for a living and as a sideline get scrap machines (you can buy them by the container load), fix them up and sell them to people who's machine wasn't repairable. About half of the "scrap" machines had faults that could be fixed within ten minutes.
So much stuff we throw away nowadays could be easily repaired if it wasn't for the manufacturer's making it as difficult as possible because they make more money having a slew of brands - so when your Crapnonics TV breaks you just buy a Buggervision one instead which identical internals.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Actually no, this one was electric from new. It even came with the user's manual in the case, and the original receipt.
Singer started making electric sewing machines in the 1920s
The very first ones you plugged into the overhead light socket in order to power them 
classic33
Leg End Member
Unmetered, so free to a point to run.Actually no, this one was electric from new. It even came with the user's manual in the case, and the original receipt.
Singer started making electric sewing machines in the 1920s
lutonloony
Über Member
- Location
- torbay
Straight drive from motor, Morphy Richards, replacement ordered from flea bay ,£1.80, can wait til it gets here from China, 2 weeks longer won't kill me
