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Outside, it's all white everywhere, below freezing, a fog and hard frost all day, and all night!
We are in the run-up to Christmas. Honey wants the super energy-efficient (Seimens) heat pump tumble drier to do it's stuff really well, preferably until spring at least. This is not happening! Running to stop the alarm bleating when the wash is nowhere near dry is more than an annoyance! Every filter is cleaned, and all the condensed water cleared away before every use, but to no avail.
One's journey through disassembly of a modern white goods build, even one of the "premium" models is depressing. Built to a (questionable) price, every part of this plastic and sharp edge metal monster depends on various other bits, click-locked together in a way that suggests it was intended to go together only once, and had better been have put together in the right sequence. Why is it on a vintage workmate in the middle of the hall? Easy - it is because there is a radiator right there, and daddy is not going to feeze his nuts off in the garage, nor anywhere else. Steadily, piece by piece, the whole thing has to come apart, just to unlock access to some other secret click-locked plastic below it. At a guess, I have 40 or 50 Torx screws taken out.
Finally, the condenser fins are found, clogged up with a wet lint mess that perhaps the designers had not succeeded in stopping. It makes a peculiar kind of "soggy blanket" yuk mess on the fins that pretty much inhibits the air flow. The labour taken just to get it apart probably exceeds the value of all it's major working parts!
So now honey wants a new dryer, PDQ, and also wants the present one fixed, even faster! She suggests we keep two. Apparently this is what it takes to get over the "they don't make 'em like they used" to phenomenon.
This is the "cleaner" end. The really yuk mess is underneath.
Partly cleaned up. The whole works can be lifted out, with the compressor and all, but at some risk! The fins are very soft and fragile. The parts were put in, and pipes charged with refrigerant and soldered up afterward. You can't remove that stuff supported only by the tubes that go between the bits.
Chaos, but at least it's warm! The question is - can I get it all to go back together?
We are in the run-up to Christmas. Honey wants the super energy-efficient (Seimens) heat pump tumble drier to do it's stuff really well, preferably until spring at least. This is not happening! Running to stop the alarm bleating when the wash is nowhere near dry is more than an annoyance! Every filter is cleaned, and all the condensed water cleared away before every use, but to no avail.
One's journey through disassembly of a modern white goods build, even one of the "premium" models is depressing. Built to a (questionable) price, every part of this plastic and sharp edge metal monster depends on various other bits, click-locked together in a way that suggests it was intended to go together only once, and had better been have put together in the right sequence. Why is it on a vintage workmate in the middle of the hall? Easy - it is because there is a radiator right there, and daddy is not going to feeze his nuts off in the garage, nor anywhere else. Steadily, piece by piece, the whole thing has to come apart, just to unlock access to some other secret click-locked plastic below it. At a guess, I have 40 or 50 Torx screws taken out.
Finally, the condenser fins are found, clogged up with a wet lint mess that perhaps the designers had not succeeded in stopping. It makes a peculiar kind of "soggy blanket" yuk mess on the fins that pretty much inhibits the air flow. The labour taken just to get it apart probably exceeds the value of all it's major working parts!
So now honey wants a new dryer, PDQ, and also wants the present one fixed, even faster! She suggests we keep two. Apparently this is what it takes to get over the "they don't make 'em like they used" to phenomenon.
This is the "cleaner" end. The really yuk mess is underneath.
Partly cleaned up. The whole works can be lifted out, with the compressor and all, but at some risk! The fins are very soft and fragile. The parts were put in, and pipes charged with refrigerant and soldered up afterward. You can't remove that stuff supported only by the tubes that go between the bits.
Chaos, but at least it's warm! The question is - can I get it all to go back together?
