Re: What part of "unsupported"....

"Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Often there's more work to be done just getting the damned thing in
question OPENED than in actually fixing the doohicky.

Yeah. Phvfvaneg, herinafter referred to as stupid-formerly-French-co,
seemed to nail that perfectly in their breadmaker.

Motor keeps stalling; torque problems. The electrical engineer in me
thinks; it's probably a universal motor; it's probably got dodgy
brushes (jammed in the slides) or weak connections on the commutator
or just dodgy wiring harness to the motor. All easy fixes.

I can't figure out how to open the stupid thing. Getting past the
security screws on the bottom is easy; everyone has a set of security
screw bits for their multi-bit ratchet driver, right? (Oh; those
security screws were protecting a belt-drive. Belts are never user-
replacable, of course, it was very important to have those there.)

Near as I can tell, the control panel is either epoxied into place or
otherwise mounted by crimping fairly heavy overly-chromed steel around
it. I know there's two #8 x 5/8" sheet metal screws under it, and
that's the only area left that I need to remove... but I just can't
figure out how.

But, what I could figure out how to do is, buy a much-better-Japanese-
co machine. Which is much better anyway. Heck, the Japanese know
about robotics, right? There's that Styx song and everything.

It also means stupid-formerly-French-co is enough on my shitlist that
I won't even buy a cake pan with their logo on it.

(Looking at the company that now owns the marque, I'm not really
surprised; other than Jnevat, it's a collection of questionable DIY
hair product brands, basically. And I'm not sure Jnevat is worth
their price, either. So I bought a mixer than was actually assembled
in the U.S., from foreign-made parts of coruse.)

--
"I thought everyone in [TO] ... jumped off the Bloor Street Viaduct? Or
was your Mom a nonconformist?" -- adb about my mother in the Monastery.
"Well, of course she was. Just because everyone *else's* Mom was jumping
off the Bloor Street Viaduct, should *she*?" -- Jonathan's witty retort.
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