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Re: toaster repair

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Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
> Andy Bennett <aben@ben37j.com> wrote
>> Rod Speed wrote

>>> looking to repair a couple of toasters, mainly because
>>> I do really thick toast cut from a full loaf and it's hard
>>> to find a popup toaster that can do that well, particularly
>>> when buying online at a sensible price and it shouldn't
>>> be hard to spot weld the element burnout at the termination
>>>  But I can't work out how to get the handle off so I can get
>>> the cover off. Online some have screws but none of mine
>>> do. Are they glued on and can you just lever it off ?

>> Talking of toasters - we are (apparently) really weird and like our  
>> toast really thick, dark and crisp on the outside and lovely warm bread  
>> on the inside.

> Me too

>> Most of the population appears to prefer thin rusk-like  objects.

> True

> Mate of mine showed up one morning when I was having my
> breakfast which is just a massive great slab of my toast and
> said 'what the hell is that' :-)

>> We have been on a quest for (our opinion) a decent toaster for most of  
>> our 50 years of married life, nearly all appearing to take far too long  
>> and generate the rusk variety of toast regardless of the thickness of  
>> slice. Even using the oven grill dries out the slices somewhat.

> And its a damned nuisance to have to do it so manually.
> I much prefer a proper pop up toaster

>> Most appear to abide by the rule of approximately 400W allocated to  
>> each slot, so a 4 slice toaster is typically 1600W and a two slice 800  
>> to 1000W.

>> I recently stumbled on a Russell Hobbs "Distinctions" toaster which is  
>> a 2 slicer but claimed to be 1600W - a lovely 800W per slice.

>> I did a few cross checks to ensure they were not telling porkies and  
>> purchased one - probably pricey at £44 from amazon but certainly a lot  
>> cheaper than the crap Dualit we have owned in the past.

> I've been getting mine from garage/car boot sales, mostly for $5 or $10
> so its cheap to try because you can't really try toasters in the shop to
> see how well they handle very thick slices of bread and even the ones
> that claim to do crumpets isnt really much use for our bread

>> Has nice wide long slots too - ideal for our 1 inch thick slices.

>> This produces our desired toast at last! You have to keep your eye on  
>> it as it is VERY fast and can easily generate cremated slices for the  
>> unwary, but once fully tuned works a treat. I can at last go to my  
>> grave eating decent toast.

> Thanks for that, might try one if the repair turns out to be not  
> feasible.

Turns out that fixing the best of the toasters wasnt easy. You have
to dismantle it completely to be able to repair the burnt out wire
and its made with metal bits that go thru slots and are then bent.
Can't see those lasting when unbent and rebent and the toasters
weren't great even before they failed, particularly getting too thick
toast out when that jammed

So I bought the one you recommended. Not sold
in my country or yours that I could find only but
I could get it from amazon in germany and didnt
have to pay freight from there to australia

Stupid price, but I will never spend all my
savings before I kark it so what the hell

Works very well except for the fact that it
doesnt toast both sides the same, even if you
turn the toast around when half way thru,
so it can't be a design geometry problem.

I did consider that is due to one side of the slice having
been exposed to the air in a plastic bag for 24 hours
since I normally only toast a single slice of the multigrain
vertical loaf out of the bread machine every day for
breakfast but I just tried cutting an extra slice off and
keeping it in a plastic bag for 24 hours and turning it
half way thru, but that didnt make any difference, still
one side toasted more than the other

The difference is just visible, not so brown, in
fact closer to white than brown. Can't work out
what that can be due to, maybe the vertical loaf
just varys in density down the loaf

I used to get the same effect with the other toasters that died

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