Today I took up the wife's complaints about handheld hair dryers.
Dryer #1 was old and the flare deflector on the front broke off. The retaining clips half melted.
Dryer #2 I have repaired several times. the folding handle was long ago glued into a fixed positions She complains it switches off after a while
Dryer #3 is only a few months old. Purchased to replace#2 the red safety button keeps popping. GFCI. Hard to reset.
So #1 I just glued the front deflector in place aroudn the perimiter, never used without it so permanent it is. Back to the upstairs guest bathroom
#2 the switch is flakey intermittent when you jiggle it. Experience tells me there's not much I can do about that. It's old and I'm ready to give it up...Switches that handle 12-14 Amps when they go there's no fixing them that will last.
#3 I said the GFCI keeps popping after about 10 seconds. The button is real stiff and hard to reset by latching it. There's no obvious leakagae - GFCI to trip requires leakage to ground and there is none. I consider just replacing the GFCI module with a regular plug. Because all the bathroom outlets are GFCI protected as required by modern electrical code for bathrooms.
But I figure Dryer #2 can donate its GFCI. They are held by screws so no need to even splice.I'll just open and wire the end of the wire in.
Grrr. both have some kind of triangular recessed hole in the screw. Fine, I say I'll just get my 99-bit security bit kit from HF to open these... Sigh, the stupid kit does not have one of these. 99 bits and not one fits. I guess they're serious about anti-tamper.
Crap, So I have to splice it. Several splice crimps and heat shrink tubing later, #3 is all fixed and working and #2 is on the scrap heap.
As a bonus the cord is a foot longer!
Two working hair dryers from three bad ones. Not bad.
Dryer #1 was old and the flare deflector on the front broke off. The retaining clips half melted.
Dryer #2 I have repaired several times. the folding handle was long ago glued into a fixed positions She complains it switches off after a while
Dryer #3 is only a few months old. Purchased to replace#2 the red safety button keeps popping. GFCI. Hard to reset.
So #1 I just glued the front deflector in place aroudn the perimiter, never used without it so permanent it is. Back to the upstairs guest bathroom
#2 the switch is flakey intermittent when you jiggle it. Experience tells me there's not much I can do about that. It's old and I'm ready to give it up...Switches that handle 12-14 Amps when they go there's no fixing them that will last.
#3 I said the GFCI keeps popping after about 10 seconds. The button is real stiff and hard to reset by latching it. There's no obvious leakagae - GFCI to trip requires leakage to ground and there is none. I consider just replacing the GFCI module with a regular plug. Because all the bathroom outlets are GFCI protected as required by modern electrical code for bathrooms.
But I figure Dryer #2 can donate its GFCI. They are held by screws so no need to even splice.I'll just open and wire the end of the wire in.
Grrr. both have some kind of triangular recessed hole in the screw. Fine, I say I'll just get my 99-bit security bit kit from HF to open these... Sigh, the stupid kit does not have one of these. 99 bits and not one fits. I guess they're serious about anti-tamper.
Crap, So I have to splice it. Several splice crimps and heat shrink tubing later, #3 is all fixed and working and #2 is on the scrap heap.
As a bonus the cord is a foot longer!
Two working hair dryers from three bad ones. Not bad.
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