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Ah ... I didn't see your post until now, and wouldn't have known the answer — but I had a chance to test that out earlier this evening. Yes, it does about the same thing when I crank the knob around to the Spin setting in many of those other modes. So it isn't just that one particular position that's worn out. However, it doesn't rule out the relay you mentioned. There's no way it'd have separate relays for each mode ... which means that a sticky common relay could give the same result in any mode.

I think the conclusion would be, "prrrobably a mechanical issue, but still the outside possibility of an electrical contact issue."
 
Frustration of the day:

When you're trying to learn how to use the new beard trimmer you just bought and you screw up so bad that you end up having to shave off your entire beard and start over. :sigh: :mad:
 
Silvercrest said:
I see what you mean. We certainly do use the same selection over and over. Except it doesn't seem to fit ... the machine enters the spin part of the cycle just fine, and hums and throbs like it's doing something, but it doesn't actually spin. Except only when it's heavily loaded. Except not every time. Except it behaves marginally better since I replaced the one part.

Don't all those exceptions suggest something (else) mechanical?

Thanks, though!
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That's precisely what my old machine had the other day. The mechanic exchanged the coal electrodes of the motor that makes the drum spin. They ought to be as long as a finger and had been worn down to 1/5 inch.

My "argh ofg the day" is of a general nature: Monday......
 
I found a dead chipmunk in my garage today. It must have gotten in when I was taking my car in and out for the snow last week. Eww.

Hopefully the fact it couldn't get out means that there aren't small enough holes to get in when the garage door isn't open.
 
Ok, I took the wrongly delivered mail back to the post office last Saturday and tossed it in the chute. Today, it's back!! If I could take it to the actual addressee, I would. The street number is the same, but the street name is nothing alike. My son thinks it might be the result of a mechanical sorter problem, but the mail deliverer is human and supposedly can READ!
 
JirinPanthosa said:
I found a dead chipmunk in my garage today. It must have gotten in when I was taking my car in and out for the snow last week. Eww.
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Not really on topic, but the mention of snow and dead chipmunks reminded me of this classic holiday song parody.

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Velocity said:
Ok, I took the wrongly delivered mail back to the post office last Saturday and tossed it in the chute. Today, it's back!! If I could take it to the actual addressee, I would. The street number is the same, but the street name is nothing alike. My son thinks it might be the result of a mechanical sorter problem, but the mail deliverer is human and supposedly can READ!
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You would think that they could get things right at least the second time. Did you write anything on it? When it happens to me and I have the post office fix it, I write something on the envelope like "delivered to incorrect address" or something.
 
Velocity said:
Ok, I took the wrongly delivered mail back to the post office last Saturday and tossed it in the chute. Today, it's back!! If I could take it to the actual addressee, I would. The street number is the same, but the street name is nothing alike. My son thinks it might be the result of a mechanical sorter problem, but the mail deliverer is human and supposedly can READ!
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At work we sometimes get mail for past occupants of our address, so I always take a sharpie marker and make a big X over the address and write in big, thick, unambiguous letters, "No such addressee, return to sender," and then drop them in an outgoing mail bin down the street. For a while the postal carrier would keep putting them right back in our mailbox!

So to prevent this, I ended up having to black out the entire recipient address block, and also make thick black lines over all the little postal sorting marks (even these little faint salmon-colored lines that get printed on the envelope and you can barely see), so there would be absolutely no chance of the sorting process automatically sending the mail piece back to us.

Kor
 
Kor said:
At work we sometimes get mail for past occupants of our address, so I always take a sharpie marker and make a big X over the address and write in big, thick, unambiguous letters, "No such addressee, return to sender," and then drop them in an outgoing mail bin down the street. For a while the postal carrier would keep putting them right back in our mailbox!

So to prevent this, I ended up having to black out the entire recipient address block, and also make thick black lines over all the little postal sorting marks (even these little faint salmon-colored lines that get printed on the envelope and you can barely see), so there would be absolutely no chance of the sorting process automatically sending the mail piece back to us.

Kor
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Good that you do that because it's not a human that keeps sending them back, they get stuffed in a mail sorting machine and then a human delivers it back to the wrong address.
 
So I took the wrong mail to the post office today and tried to explain what was happening to the guy behind the counter. Swear to God, the guy couldn't understand what I was trying to tell him and we went back and forth for awhile: No, that isn't my name OR my address. "Qwrdkillkof?" Huh? "Blahdeblahdeblah?" He couldn't make himself understood with his heavy accent and he didn't understand me either. Finally he said (I think), "I know what to do". So, I fully expect it back again tomorrow. Then we'll do another intense search online for this address and hopefully find it and do the post office's job for it. Grrr!
 
We occasionally get mis-delivered mail, but it's always for one of two particular places: Two houses away from us, or two blocks away. So, I just deliver it there.

The location two houses away is easy, because the real address is printed on the package... it's just a number that's easy to confuse with ours at first glance. The postal carrier gets the blame for that one.

The location two blocks away was a little harder. Those packages actually have our house number (mis)typed on them. Only the name is different. It took a little detective work to figure out the real address. Again, it's just one wrong digit and easy to confuse with ours. But that one's the fault of the sender, not the post office.
 
I've had a sore ear the last few days but it was very painful this morning, so I knew I had an ear infection. I called my provider's office and they got me in with an 11:15 appointment. They had me check in online and then wait in the park lot until 5 minutes before my appointment.

So I get, only wait a few minutes and then they put me in an exam room. There was only one person in the waiting room so I assumed I wouldn't have to wait long.

Wrong.

I waited for 1 hour and 30 minutes. They had a student nurse who apparently checked me in (temp check, BP check, ID check) and then forgot I was there. I kept sticking my head out into the hallway, left the door open, walked down the hall... nothing. When the doctor finally came in, she was very apologetic and begged my forgiveness. I tried to be nice but at that point, I just wanted my prescription so I could go home.

I was going to ask for a flu shot and the Shingles vaccine but after all that time, I just wanted to get the hell out of there.

Maybe I'll just get the shots at my pharmacy later on.

Oh, and it turns out *both* ears are infected, so at least I have antibiotics. :sigh:
 
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auntiehill said:
Maybe I'll just get the shots at my pharmacy later on.
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I don't know how it is down your way, but apparently the pharmacies around here are experiencing major shortages due to a five-fold increase in demand. This may be the first time in years that I won't be able to get one. :( Hopefully all the COVID preventative measures also help prevent spreading the flu...

I hope your ears are feeling better soon.
 
COVID is going to be around for a few years. I don't hold any hope of a vaccine in the time people think it will happen. This thing will be with us for a while yet.
 
yep. In Germany, the last flu season stretched into the first lockdown and it was really amazing to see how the flu figures plummeted. On the negative side, many people here suffered from a very mean cold around Christmas. That one was like Corona light: 2 days sore throat, 2 days violent cough, 2 days sniffles and a week of high temperature. I wonder if that might perhaps have actually been Corona already. At any rate it left many people, particularly the older ones, very weak and widely open to Corona. That's presumably why in the first wave so many died. Now in the second one, only one person died in my district.

@auntiehill hope your ears get better soon! But as your GP will confirm you shouldn't get a vaccination while you have an infection. In the best case you'll overreact to the vaccination and get quite ill, in the worst case the vaccination might not work properly and relying on being safe you'll catch the respective infection after all.

Frustrating thing this morning: couldn't get a taxi and had to walk to work. My injured tendeon protests pretty vehemently now. On the plus side it's a lovely morning :)
 
auntiehill said:
Don't you *love* that? :rolleyes: I know they're in a hurry, but MAN... . I hope your stuff wasn't broken.
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Nothing was broken, although it was a collectable item which takes condition into consideration.

I read up on delivery drivers who throw things. Unless it's drastic and causes bad publicity -- there's a video that went viral several years ago of a FedEx driver who threw a computer monitor over a gate and broke it -- the union will protect them and nothing will be done to change their habits. If they're just seasonal help, on the other hand, they get thrown to the wolves without hesitation.
 
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