Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[Jayneflakes]

Thanks EE, was looking after my Grandson last night and was up until 4AM. Luke is missing his Mum, but she has had to go away for the weekend for a family funeral and Dad had his best mates birthday and wanted to go out and do what young men do when the wife is away. Luke has also just started "head banging", repeatedly slamming his head against the mattress in his travel cot, which has freaked me out, but the internet says is perfectly normal. So I finally got to sleep at four AM and then get a sales text message from EE at seven AM on a Sunday morning that wakes me up. So thanks EE, you are a bunch of male chicken suckers!

[BanannaMan]

Originally Posted by maviczap

Motor is working, but drum isn't turning. Belt is in place. Googled the problem, and it said it might be the starter capacitor which helps the motor to start the drum turning. Ive tried the simple test to see if this is the fault, and isn't.

Drum doesnt seem to want to turn, there's a lot of resistance.

Now it wasnt expensive, under £200, so do we call out our our friendly tech engineer or buy a new machine

It is probably the bearing located at the center behind the drum.
Had to replace one in my lads dryer a few months ago.
Remove the belt if it will not spin freely it's the bearing.
Not to hard to replace but helps if you have an assistant when replacing the drum.
Parts should be around £35 and less than an hours work.

If you're going to pay someone else might be just as well off to get a new one at that price.

[Sir Trev]

We have a guy just round the corner from us mends domestic appliances and he said business is really poor for him as people just throw stuff away now instead of mending them. The prices are now so low on things like dryers that most don't bother and his phone rings less and less. Seems such a waste, especially as John Lewis/Currys take your old one away for free and someone probably gets them cheap off them and mends them...

[NTECUK]

Sun's out and I'm miles away from my bike!!!

[Bluepete]

Dropping things on my foot.

Yesterday, I dropped the battery for my quadcopter on my foot. Looks like this today!



Pete

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

We have a guy just round the corner from us mends domestic appliances and he said business is really poor for him as people just throw stuff away now instead of mending them. The prices are now so low on things like dryers that most don't bother and his phone rings less and less. Seems such a waste, especially as John Lewis/Currys take your old one away for free and someone probably gets them cheap off them and mends them...

When you take away old units, as we do with our old refrigerators, you are not allowed to even break it for spares, can be quite annoying sometimes as we havevto send perfectly good units for scrap just because some designer does not like the colour, such a ridiculous waste.

[Geodude]

Originally Posted by Bluepete

Dropping things on my foot.

Yesterday, I dropped the battery for my quadcopter on my foot. Looks like this today!



Pete

Ouch bet that stung a bit, hang on though on closer inspection are you sure you didn't bash it on a rock climbing mount doom

[punyXpress]

More likely to be showing the yoof of today the error of their ways?

[Sir Trev]

Originally Posted by Bluepete

Dropping things on my foot.

Yesterday, I dropped the battery for my quadcopter on my foot. Looks like this today!



Pete

Nice slippers under the nest of tables, and is that your polkadot handbag we can see on the floo?

[Bri w]

Originally Posted by Bluepete

Dropping things on my foot.

Yesterday, I dropped the battery for my quadcopter on my foot. Looks like this today!



Pete

If that's the bruise, how big is the battery/'copter? Is it a Chinook?