Toaster repair

[Bob Eager]

Just fixed the 10 year old Dualit for the first time. Someone bashed it and broke the neon indicator, and I also replaced one of the elements that was getting a little iffy. The securing nuts are 6.5mm - they will sell you a spanner! I used 4BA spanners which worked fine.

The amusing part was when I mentioned it afterwards, and someone pointed out that (according to the university's official wi-fi guidance) toasters can interfere with the wi-fi signal...I'm at a loss to see how any toaster could, but certainly not the Dualit...

[Graham.]

Perhaps you can buy a pop-up blocker for it.

[Graham.]

Page 4 would have you believe that a toaster ovens (whatever they are) benefit wi-fi operation (sort of)

" In a simple scenario, an enterprising employee who is fed up with the old toaster oven might suddenly bestow a new microwave upon the corporate kitchen, thus causing unexpected wireless LAN interference every time he heats up his lunch "

[Bob Eager]

A good idea! :-)

Of course, the Dualit never pops up....

[Adrian]

So that's what the 6.5mm sockets in damn near every 1/4" socket set are for...

How many do you need?

[Brian Gaff]

Well, I understand that some toasters use a Triac to adjust the power to the elements, but then so do old fashioned dimmer switches.

I'm surprised any toaster is serviceable. all the ones I've had recently are riveted or bonded together so you cannot do anything with them. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

Yes, but toasters don't use Microwaves, have you ever tried to toast in a microwave? You end up with warm hard bread that is it.

Its a real shame that innovative companies like Phillips no longer exist as far as design is concerned in this area. They would have by now had the internet connected toaster with linear motor driven slice expulsion system etc. Brian

[John Williamson]

That'll be why there's no interference, then. ;-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

Well brian, all you have to do is get an old CD rom Drive, adapt it to take a slice of bread, and up the laser power to around 500W.

[Paul Herber]

We'd also have the Craporama Talkie-Toaster

[John Williamson]

Or build one of these:-

(Brian, it's a picture of a home made toaster that prints a 6 by 6 pixel image onto a slice of bread using car cigarette lighters. It gets the picture from Google.)

I'd guess that a scanning 5 watt infra red laser should be able to burn a decent quality image,

[John Williamson]

We already do:-

[Gordon Henderson]

Just don't go there:

Gordon

[Bob Eager]

Funnily enough, none of mine do...

But, as I said 4BA worked nicely.

[Bob Eager]

It's aDualit. A proper Dualit!

[Mr Fuxit]

Back in the Eighties the elements came complete with a spanner!

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Cylons - watch out for them.

[Ian Jackson]

Can you use a dual-core toaster for simultaneously burning toast and DVDs?