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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rpm on August 16, 2004, 05:54:16 PM
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My clothes dryer timer went bad and would constantly run the heating element, even when the dryer was off. The only way to turn it off was to trip the breaker. The appliance store quoted me $155 for the part and no warranty unless they installed.
Being a hardheaded individual, I chose an alternet course. I removed and disassembled the timer myself. I found a 5mm piece of plastic broken that was allowing the contacts to be constantly closed. A 5cent dab of plastic cement and it's good as new!
The timer looked like some 6th grade science fair entry with a motor, cam and 3 metal strip contacts. Johnson Controls must make a fortune off this crap... but not from me!
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I hope you have good fire insurance.
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rpm obviously you weren't being as creative as you could have been.
Picture this...and also note it would be a great centerpiece during football halftimes.....
Take your basic hamster cage and remove the metal exercise wheel. Place rubber gromets where the wheel and stand join. Replace the wheel to the stand.
Above the Hamster cage bring in the positive and negative leads to the drying element. Insert the 3 negative contacts to the inside of the Hampster cage. Are you with me so far????
Take the positve lead and drape it over the wheel being careful that it DOES NOT touch the cage. But just within a 1/16th from the wheel *any less, 1/32, creates a nice blue spark and you're out of a Hamster.*
Entering the pet shop you have to be cool...don't blow it...observe the hampsters... weight and speed will prevail. Buy 6 at first. Include Duct tape and 12'' cardbord tubes to cover your actions.. The clerk will not question you.
Now at home you need an artistic hand to form a nice Foil helmet/hat...a Merlin style is best. and add 1...JUST 1 strand of good Copper wire to the top of the hat. Attach to Hamster, goggles would be cool for the hamster also.
You can buy over the counter antihistomines...take note it only takes a few shakes from the capsule into the water bottle.
20 minutes later, waaalaaa Hampster generated dry laundry. Hook 6 of these bad boys together in a parallel and you got it made!!!
Friends will call you A KING! and If they should slowly fry...dab them in a nice steak sauce!
Now that's creative!!! I'm dam near a frikken Genius!
:aok
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Originally posted by Lizking
I hope you have good fire insurance.
Driers have built-in thermal fuses. If the temp gets too hot the fuse melts and all power is disconnected. This happens long before things get hot enough to start a fire. About the only way a drier can catch fire is if it is filled with lint which somehow comes in contact with the heating element. Very unlikely.
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good job rpm :aok
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Yeah, Ra, like the thermal fuze blew and let the heating element stay on when the dryer wasn't running. That means no air over element=high temp very quickly.
Hope you have good fire insurance.
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If the thermal fuse didn't blow it means the temp didn't get high enough. The timer was the only thing broken. The heater element thermostat was obviously working, keeping the temp at a set max, air or no air. But if it had failed too the thermal fuse would have blown and shut the whole thing down. If driers could catch fire that easily our cities would be going up in flames constantly.
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Good point.
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Mac, you're a SICK puppy!!! :aok :D :rofl
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dryers are pretty easy to fix
even I work on mine - just alittle advice from the internet and a close Sears parts house - poof
changed that thermal thingy and a belt in my whirlpool
washer is a different animal - if it gets sick twice and its out with the old, in with the new..
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ROFLMAO Mac :aok
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WTG, RPM. You are now also responsible for shipping a job overseas.
By doing it yourself, you have lessened the need for the repair company to retain the repairman.
I guess it's ok to tell other people what to do with their money by telling where or when they should employ people, but when it's your money, you choose not to hire or employ a US repairman, where that money would be circulated back into the economy.
I hope that the plactic cement was at least made in the US.
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Stringer, I see quite the opposite. Johnson Controls has shipped thousands of manufacturing jobs overseas. This particular timer bore a "Hecho en Mexico" sticker.
The VersaChem Plastic Welding Epoxy was made in Florida. I always try to buy American whenever possible.
I pumped money back into the US economy a month ago when I bought the epoxy and screwed an evil corporation out of $155 for their offshore account today.
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I think its time for a new avatar.
(http://mitglied.lycos.de/wylieandrick/Photos/MacGyver/Mac19.jpg)
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lol saur :lol
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There is nothing on God's green earth that can not be fixed with bailing wire and duct tape.
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Originally posted by rpm371
There is nothing on God's green earth that can not be fixed with bailing wire and duct tape.
and that includes a date :D
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RPM,
How many people does Johnson Controls employ in the US? Are they a US company? One that has paid dividends every year since 1887.
A company that has gone out of its way to conduct business with minority and woman owned firms. And was named Coporation of the Year in 2003 by National Minority Supplier Development Council. You know, good DNC values.
A company that is HQ'd in Milwaukee.
Looks different when you take off those one dimensional blinders.
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Originally posted by rpm371
There is nothing on God's green earth that can not be fixed with bailing wire and duct tape.
Good god man are you an aprentice or something?????
You forgot the bubble gum
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About the only way a drier can catch fire is if it is filled with lint which somehow comes in contact with the heating element. Very unlikely.
I would have to disagree with the "very unlikely" as during my days as a volunteer firefighter, I went out on a fair number of dryer fire calls, and almost all were due to the lint catching on fire. Most every case, the lint burned off, caused a little smoke and stink, and the fire was out before we got there.
On one memorable dryer call thought, the dryer was smoking and emitting a nasty smell. Since it was in a very nice house, next to the garage door, we just unplugged it, carried it outside and onto the driveway. As smoke was still coming out of it, we took the back off of it, discovered it full of cat food that some mouse had been stockpiling. Once the pile got high enough, it came into contact with a hot surface, and started smoldering.
I thought that was humourosly ironic, the cat had not only failed to get the mouse, the mouse was stealing the cats food. Worthy of a good cartoon.
dago
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Dago was a fireman? Wow! :eek::cool:
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Originally posted by Dago
I would have to disagree with the "very unlikely" as during my days as a volunteer firefighter, I went out on a fair number of dryer fire calls, and almost all were due to the lint catching on fire. Most every case, the lint burned off, caused a little smoke and stink, and the fire was out before we got there.
On one memorable dryer call thought, the dryer was smoking and emitting a nasty smell. Since it was in a very nice house, next to the garage door, we just unplugged it, carried it outside and onto the driveway. As smoke was still coming out of it, we took the back off of it, discovered it full of cat food that some mouse had been stockpiling. Once the pile got high enough, it came into contact with a hot surface, and started smoldering.
I thought that was humourosly ironic, the cat had not only failed to get the mouse, the mouse was stealing the cats food. Worthy of a good cartoon.
dago
lol :D
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Originally posted by Stringer
RPM,
How many people does Johnson Controls employ in the US? Are they a US company? One that has paid dividends every year since 1887.
A company that has gone out of its way to conduct business with minority and woman owned firms. And was named Coporation of the Year in 2003 by National Minority Supplier Development Council. You know, good DNC values.
A company that is HQ'd in Milwaukee.
Looks different when you take off those one dimensional blinders.
I'll play along Stringer. This should really set you off (you can thank me later).
I seem to recall Johnson Controls being featured in Michael Moore's film "The Big One". They were closing a factory in Milwaukee and moving it to Mexico where labor was 80 cents per hour. The firing of the Americans saved Johnson so much money the stock went up, the CEO got a big bonus and 800 Americans lost their job. You know, good RNC values.
Looks different when you take off those one dimensional blinders.
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So basically, you're happy that you cheated a US repair technician out of a chance to earn his wage.
**Edit, and using MM as a source to bulster a position might not be the most balanced source to use.
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Just so we are clear.
Fixing your own appliance is now anti american?
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Stringer, have you gone insane, or are you just trying to be a pain in the ass? I changed my own oil last week...does that mean I'm anti-american too?!
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LOL,
SOB has got it.
And no Pongo, I'm not trying to imply that at all.
And I never said anyone was Anti-American. I just showed that the debate about screwing an evil corporation out of something isn't that simple.
The company does support it's local community plus takes extra steps to use suppliers that are minority owned.
Maybe it would be better if Johnson Controls just went out of business, period. Then there wouldn't be any jobs or help to local communities and suppliers at all.
And the appliance store is locally owned. Why not buy the part to support your local economy?
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Originally posted by SOB
Stringer, have you gone insane, or are you just trying to be a pain in the ass?
Do we get to vote? :cool:
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Only if it's for the latter.
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Originally posted by Stringer
Only if it's for the latter.
If obvious was a bus, you'd be road kill.:rolleyes:
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.....says the pot to the kettle ;)
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Originally posted by rpm371
I'll play along Stringer. This should really set you off (you can thank me later).
I seem to recall Johnson Controls being featured in Michael Moore's film "The Big One". They were closing a factory in Milwaukee and moving it to Mexico where labor was 80 cents per hour. The firing of the Americans saved Johnson so much money the stock went up, the CEO got a big bonus and 800 Americans lost their job. You know, good RNC values.
Looks different when you take off those one dimensional blinders.
that evil CEO - LOL
sry 800 ppl lost their jobs but please tell us how it is possible for the US to compete globally if such actions are not taken on occassion?
you prefer the company go out of business entirely and everyone lose jobs ... that evil CEO probably saved more jobs than he cut
sorry but running a business is about turning a profit and staying in business