Repairs
Tips and Advice
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Lokring Compression Fittings
Are we finally going to get away from soldering and all the problems that are associated with it? According to this post at Technician Brian.com – Sub Zero is demonstrating Lokring fittings. We’ve seen a couple of compression fittings on the Whirlpool fridges but no information has been presented on how to make the connection in the field. I would love to be able to use this, especially for a process stub to check pressures, etc.As an aside, when guys find leaks on the Whirlpool compression fittings, they’ve been cutting them out and joining the ends together with a sleeve. Twice, I have simply heated the compression and soldered completely over it and not had any problems. It looks kind of ugly, but it works for me.
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My Dryer is Squeeling
Whirlpool, KitchenAid and Inglis dryers all have this style of idler pulley. This one was squeeling and was quite worn. I did a close up of the wheel shaft where you can see it has worn the hole oblong.
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Dishwasher Repairs
The August ’06 Consumer Reports Canada magazine has an interesting chart on page 37 showing Brand Repair History. Most of the dishwashers fell within 4% points of each other which is not surprising – many dishwashers are much the same in both quality and design. What is interesting though is the relationship between the number one product in terms of least repairs which is
Whirlpool and the worst product in terms of repairs which is Fisher Paykel. You see Fisher Paykel makes Whirlpool’s built in drawer style dishwasher. I guess that brings everything in full circle when it comes to which dishwasher is best and which is worst. (The worst is also the best.)
