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Getting weirder...
Aug. 28th, 2003 03:19 amToday's shift is normal, and lasts until 8:30 am. Then the client wants me to take 3.5 hours off and return at noon for four more hours. (Apparently one of the day people has fallen sick... I just hope it's not contagious, seeing as how either Olga or I share a work station with that person.) Then I'm to report back seven hours later, at midnight tomorrow (Friday? Yes.) for a normal midnight-to-8:30 shift.
Seems such a shame to go home in between.
For the record, Saturday looks like this: midnight-to-5:30-am, with another shift scheduled at 5:30 pm and going for about 12 hours.
* * * Laundry pressure finally forced my hand with respect to the non-operational washing machine in the back room, but instead of avoiding the problem by visiting the local washateria (which I did the last time I did laundry), I called the repair folks on the corner, who charged $35 (plus tax) for the call, plus parts. While waiting for the guy to show up, I managed to clean the kitchen and the living room, which probably needed the cleaning anyway.
Fortunately, my description of the problem over the phone led the repair guy directly to a solution, of a sort. You see, the problem was that the motor on the washing machine would run for about 10 seconds and then shut off. After a little while, it'd start again and again cut out after a few seconds. I was sure it had to do with the motor protection dingus overheating (and then cooling down to allow a restart), but had no idea if the malfunction lay with the dingus itself or whether something was causing the motor to actually overheat.
It was the latter, apparently. A selector switch on the front panel was feeding two settings to the motor simultaneously, causing the washer to draw (according to the repair guy) about 32 amps. Moving the switch to a neighboring setting solved the problem, even if it didn't actually repair the washer. I'm not particularly complaining, either, as it saves me some money at a time when there are other priorities on which to spend money.
This is a classic case of paying money not for parts, or even labor (as in the joke whose punch line is "five cents for the washer, two dollars to install it, and forty-seven ninety-five for knowing which washer and where to install it"), but for pure knowledge.
I was happy to fork over the dough.
Cheers...
Seems such a shame to go home in between.
For the record, Saturday looks like this: midnight-to-5:30-am, with another shift scheduled at 5:30 pm and going for about 12 hours.
Fortunately, my description of the problem over the phone led the repair guy directly to a solution, of a sort. You see, the problem was that the motor on the washing machine would run for about 10 seconds and then shut off. After a little while, it'd start again and again cut out after a few seconds. I was sure it had to do with the motor protection dingus overheating (and then cooling down to allow a restart), but had no idea if the malfunction lay with the dingus itself or whether something was causing the motor to actually overheat.
It was the latter, apparently. A selector switch on the front panel was feeding two settings to the motor simultaneously, causing the washer to draw (according to the repair guy) about 32 amps. Moving the switch to a neighboring setting solved the problem, even if it didn't actually repair the washer. I'm not particularly complaining, either, as it saves me some money at a time when there are other priorities on which to spend money.
This is a classic case of paying money not for parts, or even labor (as in the joke whose punch line is "five cents for the washer, two dollars to install it, and forty-seven ninety-five for knowing which washer and where to install it"), but for pure knowledge.
I was happy to fork over the dough.
Cheers...
