The one on my old machine broke up a while back and I'm too tight to pay £11
plus postage for a bit of plastic so I'm managing with pliers. It fits
almost every Hotpoint from the 80s and 90s so there must be loads of them on
old dead machines if one could but find them. Here's the thing.

http://www.buyspares.co.uk/control-k....pl?pid=591391

Anyone got an old one I could pinch?
--
Dave Baker

"Dave Baker" wrote in message
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The one on my old machine broke up a while back and I'm too tight to pay
£11 plus postage for a bit of plastic so I'm managing with pliers. It fits
almost every Hotpoint from the 80s and 90s so there must be loads of them
on old dead machines if one could but find them. Here's the thing.

http://www.buyspares.co.uk/control-k....pl?pid=591391

Anyone got an old one I could pinch?
--
Dave Baker
try the local rubbish tip

"TMC" wrote in message
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"Dave Baker" wrote in message
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The one on my old machine broke up a while back and I'm too tight to pay
£11 plus postage for a bit of plastic so I'm managing with pliers. It
fits almost every Hotpoint from the 80s and 90s so there must be loads of
them on old dead machines if one could but find them. Here's the thing.

http://www.buyspares.co.uk/control-k....pl?pid=591391

Anyone got an old one I could pinch?
--
Dave Baker
try the local rubbish tip

sorry should have said recyling centre

"Dave Baker" wrote in message
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The one on my old machine broke up a while back and I'm too tight to pay
£11 plus postage for a bit of plastic so I'm managing with pliers. It fits
almost every Hotpoint from the 80s and 90s so there must be loads of them
on old dead machines if one could but find them. Here's the thing.

http://www.buyspares.co.uk/control-k....pl?pid=591391

Anyone got an old one I could pinch?

Watch for a pikey truck to drive past and swap a bit of old metal for the
knob on the Hotpoint they invariably have on the back.
You could get Matty to grind you one in metal. ;-)

On Jun 15, 6:26 am, "dennis@home"
wrote:

You could get Matty to grind you one in metal. ;-)

My reasoning is that the old part is a faulty design and a new
identical part will also break. Therefore I would certainly make a new
one.

"dennis@home" wrote in message ...


"Dave Baker" wrote in message ...
The one on my old machine broke up a while back and I'm too tight to pay £11 plus postage for a bit of plastic so I'm managing
with pliers. It fits almost every Hotpoint from the 80s and 90s so there must be loads of them on old dead machines if one could
but find them. Here's the thing.

http://www.buyspares.co.uk/control-k....pl?pid=591391

Anyone got an old one I could pinch?

Watch for a pikey truck to drive past and swap a bit of old metal for the knob on the Hotpoint they invariably have on the back.
You could get Matty to grind you one in metal. ;-)

Good idea, it's bound to be easier to pull to turn the power on with soapy hands.
The illustrated one is pretty bad in that respect.

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dave Baker" saying
something like:

http://www.buyspares.co.uk/control-k....pl?pid=591391

Anyone got an old one I could pinch?

They were dead common, and there must be lots around heading skipwards.
What shaft does it have? Anything standardish might be replaced with a
radio knob of sufficient size and the markings simply drawn on the
surround.