There was a burning smell, as alerted by Mrs. MorFF, coming from the Tumble Dryer in recent days. This, coupled with and a noticable increase in noise coming from it in recent weeks meant the back was going to have to come off.
After a few days of thinking, “I’ll need to remember to do that”, and then not, I finally got round to it this morning. I fully expected to find an oose-fest similar to that found when clearing it a number of months ago (why is it always lilac?). There was enough in there to keep an arctophile happy for months.
So, having wrestled the toolbox from the garage, and then spent the next half hour hunting for and retrieving the essential tools that should have been in there from their ‘alternative’ locations, I removed the screws from the back of the machine.
Imagine my surprise then, as I prised the back off, half a dozen tiny ball bearings fell out and started bouncing around the tiles. “Oh dear.”, I thought (ahem), “This is going to need more than a vacuum cleaner to resolve this time.” A small, neat mound of dark metal filings had appeared on the floor too. Hmmm, maybe that’s what the recent increase in noise was; the less than tuneful grinding of metal to magnetic-dust.
In all, the bearing was surprisingly easy to remove, metal shards and all. A quick search on the internet yielded a few places were offering the part, some with express or even next-day delivery, “Excellent!”, I thought, “It’ll be here before Xmas.” – Alas no.
Which brings me to the rant…
On every one of the 4 sites offering the part I found, you;
- Search for the part,
- Add the part to your basket,
- (optional) search for voucher code (loving those discounts),
- select your shipping method, and then,
- go to the checkout
only then do they tell you there’s none in stock…
Why can’t they tell you they’ve no stock when you first look at the part? I didn’t buy it from any of the sites first time round, until I had established that none of them had it (yes, I’ve ordered out of stock stuff from Amazon and Play before; don’t do it kids)
Anyhoo, since my options are fading fast, order now placed with partsmaster in the hope its supplier can get its finger out.
