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Customer Reviews
Rout book for beginner - Great troubleshooting bookI have scan many technical books for maintenance issues. This book is easy to read and straight to the point. Proficient book to read. This book is so easy - even stupid people could understand.
This log is a good start for anyone learning about appliances
I have a out of the public eye in electricity, Air-conditioning and apartment maintenance. My strengths are in carpentry, electricity and Heat and air-conditioning. I am a HVAC technician and I found the part on heating, air and refrigeration to be a very good overview of these appliances. I wish I had this book back when I was doing apartment prolongation. It would have been a big help. I bought this book to learn more about appliances and how to repair them. I will eventually use this information to build my personal proprietorship. It's a good buy.
This record is terrible
As a former Appliance/HVACR Technician,who is after a short time teaching and has been for over twenty years I would not recommend this book.
Way too many mistakes and dangerous illustrations.
Next to valueless
Having had cast-off the old Time-Life books or Franklynn Peterson's book to repair most of my appliances for the past 25 years I was authoritatively unimpressed with this book. Unfortunately, someone "borrowed" my oldest Time Life major appliance book that covered front heap washers and they didn't cover them at all for 10 yrs so when my frontloader acted up I needed a newer book.
So when I saw the designate and the fact it was a 2007 book I figured (wrongly) that it would cover current appliances and might be a something I could use. There might be some areas with advantageous stuff in there but but on first job that came up it failed.
The first illustration of a washer is a front loader, but, all maintenance and repair information and all diagrams are for older agitatator models when it is covered at all. Also the index of symptoms has nothing to do with the repair contents or at least not on logical basis.
For example when you go to the washer section and you look up Symptom "soften will not drain" it gives possible causes but does not reference what page you would find that information on, there is no diagram of what the in jail of the washer looks like, no illustration of what the pump looks like. Where it gives info. like pass muster for air lock in the pump it never covers instructions on how to check for air lock,in the case of check to the sure that the motor is not runing in the provocation direction there are no instructions on how to check that or what to do if it is.
So far for me it started with a total failure first time out of the mailer. Doubt I will ever pick it up again to even disorder checking it on other items.
By the way I have rebuilt 1 electric stove, rebuilt two diswashers, two washers and one dryer in the sometime so none of this is new to me is just been 8 yrs since I had to repair a washer and this one is 20 yrs younger with newer controls so I thought an updated book would serve.
Saved me from a $500 repair!
I have a 13 month old dishwasher that fetch me $650. It started making a loud noise while in use. I called the company's repair center and they gave me a rowdy estimate of about $400-500 to repair. According to Consumer Reports, I should have trashed the washer and bought a new one! I had to search squeaky and low to find any books on appliance repair. Evidently, this knowledge is a state secret! I guess our disposable society doesn't craving to fix anything. I did a lot of searching on the web and did find some general info on dishwasher repair, but they didn't offer any concrete details. This book saved the day. I announce the repair chapter on dishwashers, grab my tools and removed the dishwasher, diagnosed the problem (bad motor--after ruling out other issues), went to the society's web site, located the motor and ordered it for $225. The motor arrived, I removed the old motor and popped the new one in, reconnected the tenseness and water supplies, restored the power, ran a cycle and eureka, IT WORKED! The cost of the book, some of my continually and I was able to saved my self hundreds of dollars and not be a prisoner of some repairperson. The book offers chapters on using the tools, multimeter, etc. you will prerequisite to diagnose the problem. They are clearly written and not overburdened with "technobabble". The chapters on each appliance help you troubleshoot and settle out other possiblities. To be fair, I do have a strong tool background, so I have the equipment needed. If you don't have a multimeter, etc., you would be better off occupation a repair tech, but if you do have to tools for the job, grab this book and fix the problem yourself. The sense of satisfaction and competence you feel by doing something for yourself and compensatory your appliance from the landfill make the effort worthwhile!
