It works!

Well today two technicians turned up to fix the new cooker (both have been here before). We made a few jokes about them not daring to come here alone, which they took in good part. They actually both came so they could carry out the old cooker.

Well when their man delivered the new cooker only one side of the rings worked, and nothing at all of the oven. When these two, after measuring the voltage at the outlet, and checking the wiring, it worked perfectly.

My guess is that is must have got full of damp air on the way here, which condensed, causing the, hopefully, temporary fault.

We had some fun boiling up several pans of water (very quickly), and now the oven is going through the 'burning in' procedure as prescribed in the manual.

Lets hope this is a happy ending to this long story, and that I'll find something a bit more interesting to write about here. My English conversation class has started again, this time on Wednesday evening between 17 & 19.15. Perhaps that will provide something to write about.

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2009-03-09 09.30

One of the lamps in the oven doesn't work, the fan in the oven makes a lot of noise, and the lock position doesn't lock the rings. So I called Electrolux Service, and someone is coming on Tuesday to take a look. The story isn't over yet.

2009-03-10

A man from Electrolux Service came and fixed the lamp, and showed me how to turn on, and more importantly turn off, the lock for the rings. It isn't as stated in the manual, but that's not the only error in the manual.

We looked at the fan. He took off the cover, and you can see that it is eccentric, i.e. the whole where the pressed plate fan has been drilled to go onto the shaft of its motor isn't wuite in the middle, thus the noise. He's ordered a new one, but we can only hope that it'll be better made.

But progress is being made! I stayed at home all day since it was snowing, and Margie is away (with the car). I was able to do some useful work around our HAZ1508 software (http://www.haz1508.com/).