We've just bought a high lift 4 slice Swan toaster - based on reading
an earlier thread about problems with 2 slice toasters, not accepting a
full UK slice. Yep had this problem for years :-(

Dropping the slices in sideways, works fine, as does the high lift to
chuck them back out, but the instruction are pathetic....

Three buttons marked with symbols (hyroglyphs) and a dial for time.
Left to right they are defrost frozen bread, cancel, then the third
button which we don't understand the use of. The symbol is rather like
a sheet of paper which has partially gone through a document shredder
and been pulled back out. A shredder which shreds vertically, with the
shredded fingers of paper torn of different lengths.

I'm fairly confident it is just a toaster, rather than combined toaster
/shredder, but what is the third button for. Each button has a warning
light below it, Cancel light up as soon as you start it, defrost and
the mystery buttons light up when pressed whilst toasting.

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Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

Harry Bloomfield wrote:

Three buttons marked with symbols (hyroglyphs) and a dial for time.
Left to right they are defrost frozen bread, cancel, then the third
button which we don't understand the use of.

Sure the first one isn't toast from frozen, rather than defrost?
sometimes handy for crumpets, rather than adjusting the browning level

Second is obvious

Third one might be reheat toast that's gone cold

"Harry Bloomfield" wrote in message
. uk...
We've just bought a high lift 4 slice Swan toaster - based on reading an earlier thread
about problems with 2 slice toasters, not accepting a full UK slice. Yep had this
problem for years :-(

Dropping the slices in sideways, works fine, as does the high lift to chuck them back
out, but the instruction are pathetic....

Three buttons marked with symbols (hyroglyphs) and a dial for time. Left to right they
are defrost frozen bread, cancel, then the third button which we don't understand the
use of. The symbol is rather like a sheet of paper which has partially gone through a
document shredder and been pulled back out. A shredder which shreds vertically, with
the shredded fingers of paper torn of different lengths.

I'm fairly confident it is just a toaster, rather than combined toaster /shredder, but
what is the third button for. Each button has a warning light below it, Cancel light up
as soon as you start it, defrost and the mystery buttons light up when pressed whilst
toasting.

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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

First hit, googling "Swan Toaster buttons"

www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/swan-4-slice-toaster?
Find great deals on eBay for Swan 4 Slice Toaster in Toasters. ...
4 slice capacity, 1600w power, defrost / reheat / mid cycle cancel
buttons, variable browning ...

Looks like its reheat.


michael adams

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In article ,
Harry Bloomfield wrote:
We've just bought a high lift 4 slice Swan toaster - based on reading
an earlier thread about problems with 2 slice toasters, not accepting a
full UK slice. Yep had this problem for years :-(

Dropping the slices in sideways, works fine, as does the high lift to
chuck them back out, but the instruction are pathetic....

Three buttons marked with symbols (hyroglyphs) and a dial for time.
Left to right they are defrost frozen bread, cancel, then the third
button which we don't understand the use of. The symbol is rather like
a sheet of paper which has partially gone through a document shredder
and been pulled back out. A shredder which shreds vertically, with the
shredded fingers of paper torn of different lengths.

I'm fairly confident it is just a toaster, rather than combined toaster
/shredder, but what is the third button for. Each button has a warning
light below it, Cancel light up as soon as you start it, defrost and
the mystery buttons light up when pressed whilst toasting.

It's called a "reheat" button on our toaster.

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on 02/01/2015, Andy Burns supposed :
Sure the first one isn't toast from frozen, rather than defrost? sometimes
handy for crumpets, rather than adjusting the browning level

Could well be, nothing is clear. So it adjusts the timer? Is it a
timer, rather than a bi-metal strip trip? Guess it must be, it only
latches down when the power is on.

Second is obvious

Third one might be reheat toast that's gone cold

Could well be, it mentions 'reheat' in the instructions, but not how
to.

What ever happened to englsh words over control buttons?

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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

michael adams wrote :
www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/swan-4-slice-toaster?
Find great deals on eBay for Swan 4 Slice Toaster in Toasters. ...
4 slice capacity, 1600w power, defrost / reheat / mid cycle cancel
buttons, variable browning ...

Looks like its reheat.

Its the red one, on ebay.

It was an impulse purchase, saw it cheap so grabbed one as it seemed
cheap and we needed a replacement anyway. 50% of those ebay prices.

Reheat it is then - time to get the labelling machine out ;-)

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Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

In article ,
says...

In article ,
Harry Bloomfield wrote:
We've just bought a high lift 4 slice Swan toaster - based on reading
an earlier thread about problems with 2 slice toasters, not accepting a
full UK slice. Yep had this problem for years :-(

Dropping the slices in sideways, works fine, as does the high lift to
chuck them back out, but the instruction are pathetic....

Three buttons marked with symbols (hyroglyphs) and a dial for time.
Left to right they are defrost frozen bread, cancel, then the third
button which we don't understand the use of. The symbol is rather like
a sheet of paper which has partially gone through a document shredder
and been pulled back out. A shredder which shreds vertically, with the
shredded fingers of paper torn of different lengths.

I'm fairly confident it is just a toaster, rather than combined toaster
/shredder, but what is the third button for. Each button has a warning
light below it, Cancel light up as soon as you start it, defrost and
the mystery buttons light up when pressed whilst toasting.

It's called a "reheat" button on our toaster.

Afterburner?


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Sam

"Harry Bloomfield" wrote in message
. uk...
on 02/01/2015, Andy Burns supposed :
Sure the first one isn't toast from frozen, rather than defrost?
sometimes handy for crumpets, rather than adjusting the browning level

Could well be, nothing is clear. So it adjusts the timer? Is it a timer,
rather than a bi-metal strip trip? Guess it must be, it only latches down
when the power is on.

Second is obvious

Third one might be reheat toast that's gone cold

Could well be, it mentions 'reheat' in the instructions, but not how to.

What ever happened to englsh words over control buttons?

Foreign people can't understand them

After serious thinking Phil L wrote :
Foreign people can't understand them

English is a worldwide language, understood by many. No one understands
weird symbols made up for the one occasion.

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Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

In article ,
Harry Bloomfield wrote:
on 02/01/2015, Andy Burns supposed :
Sure the first one isn't toast from frozen, rather than defrost? sometimes
handy for crumpets, rather than adjusting the browning level

Could well be, nothing is clear. So it adjusts the timer? Is it a
timer, rather than a bi-metal strip trip? Guess it must be, it only
latches down when the power is on.

Second is obvious

Third one might be reheat toast that's gone cold

Could well be, it mentions 'reheat' in the instructions, but not how
to.

What ever happened to englsh words over control buttons?

how about RTFM?

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Using a RISC OS computer running v5.18

On 02/01/2015 17:16, Sam Plusnet wrote:
In article ,
says...

In article ,
Harry Bloomfield wrote:
We've just bought a high lift 4 slice Swan toaster - based on reading
an earlier thread about problems with 2 slice toasters, not accepting a
full UK slice. Yep had this problem for years :-(

Dropping the slices in sideways, works fine, as does the high lift to
chuck them back out, but the instruction are pathetic....

Three buttons marked with symbols (hyroglyphs) and a dial for time.
Left to right they are defrost frozen bread, cancel, then the third
button which we don't understand the use of. The symbol is rather like
a sheet of paper which has partially gone through a document shredder
and been pulled back out. A shredder which shreds vertically, with the
shredded fingers of paper torn of different lengths.

I'm fairly confident it is just a toaster, rather than combined toaster
/shredder, but what is the third button for. Each button has a warning
light below it, Cancel light up as soon as you start it, defrost and
the mystery buttons light up when pressed whilst toasting.

It's called a "reheat" button on our toaster.

Afterburner?



Perhaps it's to enable the Swan to shorten it's take-off roll when it
sees the toaster coming towards it ...?

On 02/01/15 17:06, charles wrote:
In article ,
Harry Bloomfield wrote:
We've just bought a high lift 4 slice Swan toaster - based on reading
an earlier thread about problems with 2 slice toasters, not accepting a
full UK slice. Yep had this problem for years :-(

Dropping the slices in sideways, works fine, as does the high lift to
chuck them back out, but the instruction are pathetic....

Three buttons marked with symbols (hyroglyphs) and a dial for time.
Left to right they are defrost frozen bread, cancel, then the third
button which we don't understand the use of. The symbol is rather like
a sheet of paper which has partially gone through a document shredder
and been pulled back out. A shredder which shreds vertically, with the
shredded fingers of paper torn of different lengths.

I'm fairly confident it is just a toaster, rather than combined toaster
/shredder, but what is the third button for. Each button has a warning
light below it, Cancel light up as soon as you start it, defrost and
the mystery buttons light up when pressed whilst toasting.

It's called a "reheat" button on our toaster.

is that the same as afterburn?


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rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. €“ Erwin Knoll

"charles" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Harry Bloomfield wrote:


Could well be, it mentions 'reheat' in the instructions, but not how
to.

What ever happened to englsh words over control buttons?

how about RTFM?

ITYF INITFM

HTH


michael adams

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On 02/01/2015 17:14, Harry Bloomfield wrote:

Reheat it is then - time to get the labelling machine out ;-)


Heat-proof labels?



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"charles" wrote in message
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In article ,
Harry Bloomfield wrote:
on 02/01/2015, Andy Burns supposed :
Sure the first one isn't toast from frozen, rather than defrost?
sometimes
handy for crumpets, rather than adjusting the browning level

Could well be, nothing is clear. So it adjusts the timer? Is it a
timer, rather than a bi-metal strip trip? Guess it must be, it only
latches down when the power is on.

Second is obvious

Third one might be reheat toast that's gone cold

Could well be, it mentions 'reheat' in the instructions, but not how
to.

What ever happened to englsh words over control buttons?

how about RTFM?

He did, doing that didn’t help.

Plenty of things like toasters don’t even have
a manual anymore, ****ing or otherwise.

"Harry Bloomfield" wrote in message
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What ever happened to englsh words over control buttons?

No use if the item is being sold in the UK, as 3/4 of the population don't
speak english

Maybe its for toasting Swans?
Hides behind sofa.
Brian

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"Harry Bloomfield" wrote in message
. uk...
We've just bought a high lift 4 slice Swan toaster - based on reading an
earlier thread about problems with 2 slice toasters, not accepting a full
UK slice. Yep had this problem for years :-(

Dropping the slices in sideways, works fine, as does the high lift to
chuck them back out, but the instruction are pathetic....

Three buttons marked with symbols (hyroglyphs) and a dial for time. Left
to right they are defrost frozen bread, cancel, then the third button
which we don't understand the use of. The symbol is rather like a sheet of
paper which has partially gone through a document shredder and been pulled
back out. A shredder which shreds vertically, with the shredded fingers of
paper torn of different lengths.

I'm fairly confident it is just a toaster, rather than combined toaster
/shredder, but what is the third button for. Each button has a warning
light below it, Cancel light up as soon as you start it, defrost and the
mystery buttons light up when pressed whilst toasting.

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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

Normally there is an emergency release button too, in case the toast catches
fire.
Brian

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"Andy Burns" wrote in message
...
Harry Bloomfield wrote:

Three buttons marked with symbols (hyroglyphs) and a dial for time.
Left to right they are defrost frozen bread, cancel, then the third
button which we don't understand the use of.

Sure the first one isn't toast from frozen, rather than defrost? sometimes
handy for crumpets, rather than adjusting the browning level

Second is obvious

Third one might be reheat toast that's gone cold

Brian Gaff wrote

Normally there is an emergency release button too, in case the toast
catches fire.

There isnt on any of mine.

But none of mine are so badly designed that what
raises the toast cuts off the power to the elements
so that jammed toast just burns until someone
turns it off.

"Andy Burns" wrote in message
...
Harry Bloomfield wrote:

Three buttons marked with symbols (hyroglyphs) and a dial for time.
Left to right they are defrost frozen bread, cancel, then the third
button which we don't understand the use of.

Sure the first one isn't toast from frozen, rather than defrost?
sometimes handy for crumpets, rather than adjusting the browning level

Second is obvious

Third one might be reheat toast that's gone cold

Brian Gaff wrote:

Normally there is an emergency release button too,
in case the toast catches fire.

I think they just call that "cancel" so as not to alarm people!

"Harry Bloomfield" wrote in message
. uk...
We've just bought a high lift 4 slice Swan toaster

I thiought only the Queen was allowed to toast swans?

GB presented the following explanation :
On 02/01/2015 17:14, Harry Bloomfield wrote:

Reheat it is then - time to get the labelling machine out ;-)


Heat-proof labels?

No, thermal printed labels. Hopefully they will last until we get the
button functions committed to memory :-)

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http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

In article , says...

Normally there is an emergency release button too, in case the toast catches
fire.
Brian

Reheat (afterburner) Ejector seat...

Are you sure this is a toaster?

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Andy Burns wrote in message
news
Brian Gaff wrote:

Normally there is an emergency release button too,
in case the toast catches fire.

I think they just call that "cancel" so as not to alarm people!

More because it usually is used to cancel
the toasting, not because the toast is on fire.

On 02/01/2015 16:50, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
We've just bought a high lift 4 slice Swan toaster - based on reading an
earlier thread about problems with 2 slice toasters, not accepting a
full UK slice. Yep had this problem for years :-(

Dropping the slices in sideways, works fine, as does the high lift to
chuck them back out, but the instruction are pathetic....

Three buttons marked with symbols (hyroglyphs) and a dial for time. Left
to right they are defrost frozen bread, cancel, then the third button
which we don't understand the use of. The symbol is rather like a sheet
of paper which has partially gone through a document shredder and been
pulled back out. A shredder which shreds vertically, with the shredded
fingers of paper torn of different lengths.

I'm fairly confident it is just a toaster, rather than combined toaster
/shredder, but what is the third button for. Each button has a warning
light below it, Cancel light up as soon as you start it, defrost and the
mystery buttons light up when pressed whilst toasting.



I remember having a pen the same length as a slice of bread and going
around the various shops and using the pen as a guage for the depth of
the slot. Only one came near a full slice and that was a delonghi

http://www.johnlewis.com/de'longhi-brilliante-4-slice-toaster/p231098278?colour=Black


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On 03/01/2015 14:33, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
No, thermal printed labels. Hopefully they will last until we get the
button functions committed to memory :-)

On a toaster???

Andy