David Hansen wrote:
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:13:42 +0100 someone who may be John Rumm
wrote this:-

don't think the design can be blamed for a jubilee clip being fitted
in the wrong place.

No of course not. However that fact that it took 40 mins of fiddling
to get it into the right place suggests it was not well designed.

I may have misread the original posting, as I assumed it was the
jubilee clip on the outlet hose which was wrongly positioned. I hope
this didn't take 40 minutes to rectify. I imagine now that it was
something inside. Presumably it wasn't installed properly and the
fault developed slowly. Can the design be blamed for this?
Debatable.

I said rubber connector. There is a plastic pipe inside the unit and a hole
in the lid. A rubber connector joins the two, fitting inside the pipe &
having a flanged section that goes through the lid. An elbow fits into the
top of the rubber connector leading to the discharge pipe.

The hole in the lid and the plastic pipe didn't line up, hence the need for
a flexible connector - which was a piggin nightmare to get fitted.

Bad design.


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