16 Dec
2011
16 Dec
'11
2:42 p.m.
[TOaster repairs]
Working on & playing with are different things.
I can assure you I have many more interesting things to work on that
toasters... But I have to keep it working...
As for toasters: occasionally I turn it upside down over the compost bin &
tap it a few times to get the crumbs out. Anything else stops working, I
recycle it & get a new one.
Oh well... The otster here has 2 elements in series, you get the complete
assemnbly as a spare part. Of ocurse I relaised that you cvould cut the
interconnecitng iwere of the old pair nad keep the good element. After 2
such replaceements you had a good pair of elements which could go back
in (the connecting wire gets soldered together and insulated by a bit of
Pyrex tubing), which would keep it goign for a bit longer...
That's more maintenance than I'd be willing to do to a TV set or landline
phone too...
You are psekaign to the chap who rebuilt a Dial 54...
Let me eplain. The rotary dial telephones from the GPO era had a variety
of dial mechanisms fiteds. The Dial 54 was the last and cheapest one,
made mostly of plastic. It weas not designed ot be repaired. There is
also IMH Oad design fault. The mainspring that returns the dial to the
'normal' postion has its inner end fitted into a slot cut in tn the
breaing tubbe for the central spindle, this is all integrally moulded
with the plastic dial chassis. In time the plastic cracs and the spring
is no logner anchiored. Of coruse then the dial doesn;r work,
I have such a dial in the 740 telehone on to pof my Modem 13A (so this is
jsut about on-topic). It failed as above. I tottally dismantled it, cut
away the repamisn of the old bearing and made a new part from brass with
a flange to lcoate on the plastic chassis. I fitted that in place with 3
small screes. The mainspring fits into a slot in the brass part which is
a lot stronger than the origianl.
Yes, I do repair telehones. I even repair modern landline telehones...
-tony