Nope, nope and nope...... I thought it would be the pump or capacitor; or even water in the fuel line, but no....... .....motor failure.
Having been inspired by a certain sprocket removal thread, I decided to have a proper go at changing the bulb in our Neff built under oven. To do this, you have to unscrew a glass bowl that is conveniently situated right in the top right rear corner of the oven, right where you can’t get a grip on it, so previous attempts had failed. This time, I had a cunning plan though. I decided it was going to come out and my weapon of choice was an oil filter removal tool, the type with a metal body, a strap and a screw thread for tightening the strap. I located the strap on the bowl, tightened it and heaved. It did the trick and it moved. Unfortunately though, there was a bang that accompanied the movement and the lights went out. Bugger... I had twisted the whole housing, so that wires twisted, touched and shorted. At this point, SWMBO insisted a professional should be called, so I rang a mate who is a stingey landlord, so knows all the best value tradesmen. The guy he put me onto was keen to state up front how he works, which is to charge a flat 55 quid plus parts. I had already restored the power, so he dismantled and sorted the oven and stuck a new high quality bulb in, charging me 60 quid in total. I thought it was a good way of working and would use him again.
My friends son in law, Charlie, is hopeless at any DIY. Determined to get him working doing up the flat, Jim (my mate) started all the screws on the sockets and light switches (checking the wires were clear) and showed him how to do them up evenly and level. 3 minutes and BANG.... and all the lights went out. Instead of going from screw to screw level, he decided to do one up completely, twisting the whole fitting then trapping a live wire and earthing it!
WTF!! Now, I've got one even worse: Someone who I knew in the past, would take his car to the honda dealer to top up the screen wash reservoir. When I came up with a container of screen wash and said would do it for him, he could not open the bonnet. How on Earth he managed to drive a vehicle, god knows! Well, he managed to get married and make a baby, the poor girl may have come with a manual, not written, but with step-by-step illustrations.
The motor drives both.....I think (I was too cold to take much in). But yes, the fan was at one end of the motor, and the pump is at the other. Engineer had to remove both to change the motor. Apparently the motor is a 240V input but 50V output. (Riello burner).
I remember my step sister checking and topping up the oil on her first car, a Mk1 escort. I came home on my BMX to see her scratching her head with a confused look on her face. She was trying to work out how she was going to poor the oil into that very narrow tube the dip stick came out of?
Here's something else I learned through error. I am very careful who I give my Android phone number to.....not many people know it (or knew it). I was given a Ring Doorbell. I fitted it having set up the account etc.....I didn't bother to register for the free 30 day monthly subscription plan. But I decided it didn't really work for me, so after two weeks I removed it and closed the account. As soon as the 30 days expired (having received several email warnings the free period was going to expire.....that's despite closing the account); I started to get spam phone calls about my Amazon account being interfered with one way or another. To me, that isn't a coincidence.
Totally agree ^ I used the same logic to determine a Pin Number Theft at a petrol station around 14 years ago, Police/the Police that I spoke to weren't interested back then.
However, I just realised that there is a sort of a coincidence............... Most of the spam calls I got were from the Banbury area............. .............that's where a large Amazon distribution hub is located and so is a huge Huawei office. The Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre owned by Huawei.
