The Dishwasher Widget
Nov. 29th, 2024 06:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pcbTwenty-cough pounds vs between forty and seventy pounds. Plus delivery. The price difference between a Bosch dishwasher dispenser unit and a Neff dishwasher dispenser unit.
Our Neff is older now, but still game – as long as Weston and I can work out what's wearing out, buy a new whatever-it-is and tinker the part into place.
This time, a vast increase in the amount of dishwasher fluid being used drew our attention to a leak in the dispenser unit, but the price for a new part was wheezingly ridiculous, compared to the almost absolutely identical part used in Bosch-badged kit. The difference is very small and comes down to a Bosch Widget at the end of a power cable and a Neff Widget likewise located.
On one there's a cutout on the right, matching a protrusion on the power connector, and on the other the cutout and protrusion are on the left.
But wait.
The widget that makes the power supply cables unique to their badging isn't part of the housing. It too is a removable plug.
heh heh heh!
I ordered the cheaper part in short... ah, order, and, on arrival, broke down the door panel, juggled the dispenser unit out (sprung steel plates on every side, FCOL!) popped and swapped the widgets and did a careful (and successful) test.
Almost everything went back into place apart from the outer door panel, which had finally given up on the one of the screws, but I've dealt with that problem before and had both a 30mm bit and pre-sawn pieces of 30mm dowel to fill the hole. The weight of the outer panel is taken by a couple of sheets of industrial grade Velcro now, replacing the worn out strips of heavy duty Velcro that I had to replace a time or two back, so all the newly-filled section really has to do is stop the panel from flexing when the door opens.
So. The dishwasher is up and running again without either extended and wasteful dribbles of fluid or an awkwardly wobbling outer panel, and we didn't have to find a new repair guy. Our last Appliance Lad was fine until he nadgered something and tried to leave without mentioning the difficulty. He's a very cheerful bloke, but his Missus, who answers the phone for him, is completely businesslike. OK, robotic. She sits in his van while he's on a job, staring out of the window screen with her arms folded (I've seen her a couple of times – it's a VERY distinctive van) and is CREEPY.
Spousal Overview notwithstanding, the guy tried to leave us with damaged kit and that doesn't sit well; it's worth the barked knuckles and the knees sore even with knee pads to know that any problems are my own, and I'm not going to have to sort out a tradesman on top of suspicious puddles, burning wite, fragments of concrete and the like.
Our Neff is older now, but still game – as long as Weston and I can work out what's wearing out, buy a new whatever-it-is and tinker the part into place.
This time, a vast increase in the amount of dishwasher fluid being used drew our attention to a leak in the dispenser unit, but the price for a new part was wheezingly ridiculous, compared to the almost absolutely identical part used in Bosch-badged kit. The difference is very small and comes down to a Bosch Widget at the end of a power cable and a Neff Widget likewise located.
On one there's a cutout on the right, matching a protrusion on the power connector, and on the other the cutout and protrusion are on the left.
But wait.
The widget that makes the power supply cables unique to their badging isn't part of the housing. It too is a removable plug.
heh heh heh!
I ordered the cheaper part in short... ah, order, and, on arrival, broke down the door panel, juggled the dispenser unit out (sprung steel plates on every side, FCOL!) popped and swapped the widgets and did a careful (and successful) test.
Almost everything went back into place apart from the outer door panel, which had finally given up on the one of the screws, but I've dealt with that problem before and had both a 30mm bit and pre-sawn pieces of 30mm dowel to fill the hole. The weight of the outer panel is taken by a couple of sheets of industrial grade Velcro now, replacing the worn out strips of heavy duty Velcro that I had to replace a time or two back, so all the newly-filled section really has to do is stop the panel from flexing when the door opens.
So. The dishwasher is up and running again without either extended and wasteful dribbles of fluid or an awkwardly wobbling outer panel, and we didn't have to find a new repair guy. Our last Appliance Lad was fine until he nadgered something and tried to leave without mentioning the difficulty. He's a very cheerful bloke, but his Missus, who answers the phone for him, is completely businesslike. OK, robotic. She sits in his van while he's on a job, staring out of the window screen with her arms folded (I've seen her a couple of times – it's a VERY distinctive van) and is CREEPY.
Spousal Overview notwithstanding, the guy tried to leave us with damaged kit and that doesn't sit well; it's worth the barked knuckles and the knees sore even with knee pads to know that any problems are my own, and I'm not going to have to sort out a tradesman on top of suspicious puddles, burning wite, fragments of concrete and the like.
