CM - where are you. The last time this happened to us the local washing machine repair guy came out and fixed in less than 1/2 hr.
Cost £25 - look in yellow pages under washing machine repairers - do NOT go to a plumber , particularly those with the big banner adverts in yellow pages - how do you think they pay for them -Rip off merchants one and all.
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We do not have a TV, and we haven't had one for over 11 years. But we do have a small machine, originally designed for educational use, which plays videos and shows them on an integral screen. We rent videos from the local Blockbuster, and we have some of our own.
Our video player is coming to the end of its life, and we want to replace it. Our local TV repair shop has suggested we buy a TV/VCR combi, and they will remove/disable the TV tuner because we absolutely do not want to have TV. However they have also said that we ought to have a TV licence because someone could record TV programmes for us which we could then watch. Seems a bit far-fetched to me, as well as highly unlikely.
Any BRs out there care to comment?
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When you buy a TV or video the retailer is bound to hand your details to the TV licencing people....you will then be on their records as having a TV or video (ie equipment capable of receiving a TV signal) without a licence.
I have seen many years ago someone was pursued for a TV licence and after much hassle was excmpted because his video was never connected to an ariel....but this was many years of hassle.
I would contact the TV licencing people before buying anything.
Perhaps they have information on their website
www.tv-l.co.uk/tvlic/index_frameset.html
cheers
Ian
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topaktas,
if you have any reciever designed to recieve broadcast t.v signals,whether working or not, you are required to have a licence for it. you do not require a licence for a playing machine without this capability. a video player is different to a recorder in that it doesn't require an ariel input.forget the dealers recommendation that you buy a t.v/video combi, as even with the t.v tuner disabled you will need a licence. i would suggest that you just get another video player.
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cm,
don't know what make you have(not that it really matters)but the overflow pipe is only there as a back-up to the main pump-outlet. as you say it blocks regularly with fluff,it suggests to me that it is being forced into use more than it should be. i suggest that you open the pump housing(usually three spring-type clips)and have a look to see if there is anything in there that is impeding the pump operation (coins+bra wires are usually the favorite offenders).the only proper way water exits the machine should be via this route,and not by the overflow.
billy.
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Billy, its a Hotpoint.
Sorry I think that I didn't make myself clear. The water leaves the machine OK via the outlet pipe which has a U shaped piece that I slip into another (standing) pipe that goes (via some U bends) into the drains. Its the U bends that get chockered and flows back out onto the floor.
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CM,
Twice in the past ten years I have had this - in our case it was blocked in the s bends by using too much soap powder - left a residue like concrete.
You might shift some of it with one of these drain tools where you turn a handle on a long flexible thingy - do not waste money on drain cleaning liquids.
Matt35.
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cm,
right...that sounds better!!
as the water is leaving the machine through it's 3/4inch pipe (or whatever it is in mm)o.k,it suggests your pump is o.k. problem may be in the design of the "waste "system,is it dedicated to the washer alone,or is it shared with other appliances,(dishwasher/sink etc),which could be emptying into the system at the same time as the washer?.
ideally, the "waste" should be 1.5 inch diameter pipe,with the open-end(where the washer pipe enters)at least 30inches high,before the first u-bend.a good 12inches of washer outlet should be inserted into the waste pipe.it is hard to see why a 1.5 in pipe should block,when a 3/4 one doesn,t!!.are there any obstructions on this route p-traps etc?.
billy.
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CM
My mother had the same problem soon after she moved with a machine that had been used perfectly well at her old property so immediately decided to investigate the waste system. Her problem turned out to be quite simple, whoever had installed the waste pipe had cut it to length with a hacksaw and left swarf all round the diameter of the cuts, the swarf promptly snagged the fluff etc and slowly built up to a complete blockage. Remedy was a hour or two to dismantle, clean up edges with a sharp knife and a bit of wire wool and reassemble, not had another problem in eight years. Worth a look I would suggest.
Cockle
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Hello,
I am desperate,
I have been trying to sort this problem on my own but it just keeps coming back. (Trying to bolster own image in thinking that I could actually sort something out!)
I'm afraid this is going to be a bit long - and mercifully for you all I will probably be timed out. But I still haven't mastered that method in 'Announcements'.
Ok, a week or two ago, we suddenly lost internet access. The only thing that I had done which could possibly have changed anything was downloading 'System Mechanic'. That really was the only change I had made.
Thence on, everything was screwed up, we had no internet access, nothing.
I reinstalled Windows, and it worked, for a day and a half. Then it stopped again. I reinstalled Windows again, and also (in the meantime) had obtained another copy of AOL (my server) 8.0 to reinstall that too. I did that, and initial results were fine. Then a day and a half later, internet access ceased again. Same error ,messages as before.
Installed it AGAIN!! And all fine until today.
However - the only reason I am able to post to the BR tonight is that I have had to reinstall my very old original version of AOL. I did the new one twice and all I get onscreen is the WAOL has detected an error......' and lots of codes which of course I haven't a clue about.
The computer was working fine earlier, because without trouble I was able to access the BR. However, this evening my eldest has been on MSN Messenger, and I was wondering if this could have had anything to do with it?
Anyway, I am currently back on the AOL version that I had when I first found out that computers exist. Tis the only way at the moment to get into this site!
If anyone can offer me any advice, help, or indeed anything else in this then I will be eternally grateful. I just don't know what I can do that I haven't already done. But then again........ oh and PS - the System Mechanic thing I thing I might have used wrongly and deleted stuff that I shouldn't - but then again when I deleted System Mechanic it didn't go - not completely, because it makes itself known on my start-up screen.
AND, in my Control Panel, suddenly 'repair Internet Explorer' has gone.
Tonight, all things having been fine for a few days, I tried to log on -[ just error message - and in the end I installed both Windows and AOL again. And yet it would not accept it until I went back to the ancient AOL6.0 rather than the newer 8.0.
So currently I am using an ancient system but am in fact glad that it allows me access here!
But if anyone can tell me what I've done wrong, or what I need to do - I would be most grateful.
Many thanks in advance - unless no-one answers - in which case I will become crazily abusive.
In any case, really grateful for any hints, but not really expecting any, because this is just bizarre!
HF
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Hi HF I can possibly help you but I need to get more detail and ask some questions. In order not use up HJ's bandwith and bore the backroom silly please contact me by email if you would like some help.
regards
Godfrey H
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HF,
Do yourself a favour - dump AOL and use another ISP - it will (probably) be cheaper and you don't have to install software that takes over your entire machine and screws everything up (as you are well aware!). You can't be that computer illiterate if you have managed to re-install Windows!
RichardW
Is it illogical? It must be Citroen....
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I hope that this has been sorted but if not - I have found that getting updated Modem drivers is what AOL 8 requires. Its all very strange set up which is why I don't use it, but a friend had almost the same problem, which was resolved this way.
Hope this is of some help :-)
Ben
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Thanks Godfrey, Richard and Kenny.
Richard, you're not the first person who has suggested I get rid of AOL! Trouble is, I have an awful lot of emails stored which I need to keep, and dedleting AOL would get rid of them all - so that really is a last resort to me.
Kenny - no it's not sorted yet, can I download a new Modem Driver from the internet? Although what's strange is that AOL 8.0 worked for a while, so I think it may be me that caused the problem rather than AOL itself. Still, anything's worth a try!
Will post if I have any success.
Cheers
HF
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I am not au-fait with AOl's mail handling, but I am SURE it will be possible to extract / save the e-mails somewhere clean AOL off your machine and start again. There are probably numerous websites that will tell you how to do this. Hmm, but catch 22 as you can't get on-line to find out. A conspiracy, per chance?????
RichardW
Is it illogical? It must be Citroen....
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Ah, but happily not as Catch 22 as you think.
I can get online-ish, using my old AOL 6.0 account (that's how I'm able to access the HJ site).
I'll have a search around and see what I can find.
Thanks Richard.
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Unfortunately AOL only keeps stuff in its own format. You can back-up email when you un-instal AOL but you can't then copy your emails into, say, outlook. Likewise you can't use outlook to manage your mail with AOL.
I was one of the Beta testers for AOL8.0 (unpaid guinea pig, in other words) and found it to be very stable after the first couple of beta releases. Certainly not aware of any modem problems.
HF, which version of Windows are you running and what modem do you have?
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Regarding saving old emails...
Set up a new ISP then email the emails to yourself at your new address....
Another tip...to back up smallish files "off site", mail them to your own web based email address... Zipping the files up first (e.g. the contents of My Documents) will often result in much smaller and manageable files
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Good one smokie. Might take a while on dial up though. I also thought that you should just be able to copy the text and then paste it into notepad or similar - probably need to make a spreadsheet or database so that you can search for the file ref for an e-mail you want to view.
RichardW
Is it illogical? It must be Citroen....
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In one of my moments of saving money, I bought a washing machine without a fluff filter. The result is quite frequent flooding as the overflow pipe gets blocked with fluff.
I don't think it's connected with trying to save money. My recently purchased Hotpoint WMA76P is second from top of the Hotpoint range (at Comet prices) and (much to my surprise) this doesn't have a fluff filter either.
Are fluff filters a feature that some manufacturers have now decided (in their infinite wisdom or otherwise) can safely be omitted?
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L'escargot by name, but not by nature.
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CM, As the water is leaving the machine and the flooding is coming back out of the 42mm (normally) waste pipe there is nothing wrong with your machine and obviously the waste pipe is causing this.
The washing powder blockage suggestion is a very likely one as I have seen this myself.
If they are push in plastic pipes and trap simply pull them apart and clear out.
And as mentioned the vertical part of the pipe must be at least 600mm above the floor..
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If I want to make 'milky coffee' I do so in a mug in the microwave, rather than have a scummy saucepan to clean afterwards.
This works fine, apart from if I use one particular earthenware mug. If I do, the mug itself becomes scorching hot (and then some), whilst the milk inside never gets more than a few degrees above how it came out of the fridge! Then is nothing obviously odd going on, such as would happen with sparks if putting a spoon in the microwave, for example.
Out of curiosity, does the earthenware likely have a metal content, or is something else afoot, please?
Many thanks!
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Don't know the answere to that but I have a set of mugs from Portugal and they are also as you describe.
Is it perhaps a denser type of clay used or fired differently?.
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Hello, while under the slight influence of alcohol of the other night with a few friends i managed to throw a dart into a radiator which sprung a small pin hole sized leak. What is best and cheapest way to repair? Will some sort of sealer from a DIY place work?
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LOL
I can picture the scene!
Right you need to isolate and drain said radiator. You then need to dome the area in a bit where the hole is. Clean it up with emery paper round the hole. Push filler (plastic padding or you can buy special stuff to seal leaks from the DIY). Let it harden, rub it down so its now flush with the rad profile (thats why you domed it in a bit, paint it and refil with water. Provided you pushed it hard into the small hole, it will have expanded inside the rad a bit and wont pop out.
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car radiator? or central heating radiator?
assuming it's a c.h radiator,and you didn't throw the dart at it very hard, it sounds like the radiator has "worn" thin,(no corrosion inhibitor in the system?).
as these systems usually run at about 1bar pressure, i would suggest you replace it, as it may of been on it's last legs anyway. if you want to try to seal it, you can get a filler paste, or in system sealant from most hardware outlets.
billy.
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No Billy more like half a bar in pressure. Renaults idea sounds OK although in a works situation a spot of braze or weld would be the best solution.
Another feasible diy solution although it would look a bit rough is that if it was on a flat piece of the radiator you could drill through and put a self tapping screw with a fibre washer and then paint over it. I hope you got a deserved rollicking from the lady of the house?.
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HF...
Just a tiny thing - are you running windows XP? I know it hates AOL 7, and few of my friends said that it wont talk to AOL 8 wither. Looks like 6 might be your only option for now, although I think in later versions of XP it doesn't have the thing that disagrees with AOL so maybe there is an upgrade you could download.
I also did the back up of the PFC on AOL when I had my laptop repaired, but it's a heck of a fiddle to get everything back where it should be!
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Hi PG -
Thanks, but no, we're only on Windows 98 (which also hated AOL 7.0!).
I'm currently trying to back everything up and start again, but your description of the PFC backup is somewhat ominous!
Still, a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do...
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Check whether or not AOL 8 & W98 are compatible. I suspect not.
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I'm pretty sure I ran AOL 8 on Win 98 ok, the odd crash but I think that was more 98 than AOL. It works fine with XP BTW, the free pop-up stopper works brilliantly for me.
I rate AOL, if everything is configured ok and it works as it should, it is a very smooth and friendly system. Compared to BTOpenworld and Supanet, it is wonderful, especially the email.
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I also have run AOL 8 on Win 98, ME and XP without problems. AOL 9 also works well on XP amd ME.
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AOL9.0 isn't out in the UK at the moment. It's in Beta testing and taking quite a while over it too. Seems to be a fairly fundemental rebuild rather than a patch or two on AOL8.0
There seems little similarity between US and Euro releases of AOL.
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Hi,
Thanks for all the replies - sorry, I seem to have missed some of them over the weekend.
I have a list of various checks and steps to take, kindly provided by a BR member, which I am slowly going through. Also, I will follow Smokie's and Richard's advice re backing up emails and files, although I have no idea how to make a spreadsheet or database. It's about time I learned, so I will make the time to sit down and RTFM.
In the meantime, I am now writing this from AOL 8.0 with no problems, so I think things may be on their way to being sorted out.
Thanks again.
HF
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