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This soft-cover is a good start for anyone learning about appliancesI have a out of the limelight 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 segment 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 preservation. 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 function. It's a good buy.
This work is terrible
As a former Appliance/HVACR Technician,who is presently teaching and has been for over twenty years I would not exhort this book.
Way too many mistakes and dangerous illustrations.
Next to shabby
Having had inured to the old Time-Life books or Franklynn Peterson's book to repair most of my appliances for the past 25 years I was warmly unimpressed with this book. Unfortunately, someone "borrowed" my oldest Time Life major appliance book that covered front pack 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 right 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 usable 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 slate 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 "wet 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 core of the washer looks like, no illustration of what the pump looks like. Where it gives info. like token 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 excitement 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 hassle checking it on other items.
By the way I have rebuilt 1 electric stove, rebuilt two diswashers, two washers and one dryer in the years 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 staff.
Saved me from a $500 repair!
I have a 13 month old dishwasher that set someone back me $650. It started making a loud noise while in use. I called the company's repair center and they gave me a rough-and-ready 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 cheerful and low to find any books on appliance repair. Evidently, this knowledge is a state secret! I guess our disposable society doesn't hunger for 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 peruse 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 guests'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 excitement and water supplies, restored the power, ran a cycle and eureka, IT WORKED! The cost of the book, some of my chance 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 desideratum to diagnose the problem. They are clearly written and not overburdened with "technobabble". The chapters on each appliance help you troubleshoot and manage 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 profession 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 extenuating your appliance from the landfill make the effort worthwhile!
