A Day in the Life of the Samurai

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Although the Samurai does virtual service calls all over the world through his award-winning website, Fixitnow.com, and through the world-famous Samurai School of Appliantology, he also does service calls in real life!

Many grasshoppers have emailed wondering what a day in the life of the Samurai is like. Presented below is a never-before-seen series of actual photographs of the Samurai during a typical day of service calls. You can click each photo for a larger view.

I trust this will satisfy your venal voyeuristic impulses.


The phone rings at Samurai International Headquarters: another appliance in distress!


The Samurai arrives at the house in the Fixite Do service van and prepares to do battle with a broken appliance.


The customer balks at the Samurai’s bill and dishonors him. The Samurai prepares to deal harshly with the customer’s insolence. No callbacks on this job!


Back at Samurai International Headquarters, the Samurai awaits another service call.

Save the Salamanders!

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I love amphibians of all flavors, like frogs and salamanders, because they eat evil blood suckers like mosquitoes and black flies. Katie Feldman, of Vermont, started a website, www.SaveTheSalamanders.org that explains their plight and what we can do to help our amphibious friends.

And in this related story…

Visitors to Hamburg parks are being warned to watch out for exploding toads. Several thousand toads in the city’s parks have so far mysteriously spontaneously exploded, sending entrails and toad body parts over a wide area. Vets and animal welfare workers said the mystery has decimated the city’s toad population as well as the unpleasant problem of leaving toad parts scattered around parks and open spaces. Eyewitnesses say the toads swell up to three and a half times their normal size before suddenly exploding — sending entrails flying metres into the air. … ‘It’s a real puzzle,’ agreed Janne Kloepper from the Hamburg Institute for Hygiene and the Environment, adding: ‘If this keeps up, there will be no toads left in Hamburg. [original story]

Mailbag: Initiating the Harvest Cycle on a Modular Icemaker

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Frank wrote:

Most honorable Samurai,

Somewhere on this site was an instruction to jump a Whirlpool new style modular icemaker motor to make it cycle so that you can check the voltage hit at the water inlet valve. Can’t find it now. I suspect the inlet valve, although it is making a noise when I put voltage directly to the terminals. What holes in the module do you jumper to cycle the blamed thing along.

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Ah, Grasshoppah, ax and ye shall receive.

Mailbag: Kenmore Dishwasher Not Cleaning Well in the Upper Rack

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Mike Gh wrote:

I have a 2year old Kenmore dishwasher that seems to be working fine except it does not clean the dishes on the top rack. What could be causing this?
Thanks!

Mike

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The most common cause for this in any dishwasher is insufficent water fill in the basin. More details and lots more info on this at this page.

Mailbag: GE Dishwashers Flooding

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Bernard wrote:

Over the past year, at least 3 GE Model ZBD4800 dishwashers in our condo complex failed to cycle properly and stuck on water. Water flowed from the dishwasher onto the floor and from there down the inside of walls to apartments underneath. We seldom use our dishwasher and after 5 months of non-use the timer control on our own dishwasher stuck on wash (water re-cycling inside the chamber). What are your thoughts on cause? preventive maintenance?

Thanks,

Bernard

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I think this is happening because they’re cheap GE dishwashers. When these condos were built, the contractor installed the cheapest appliances he could get. This is always GE because GE has a contractor’s discount program. Let’s face it: the builder doesn’t give a rat’s hairy hind end about the quality of the appliance, he just wants to get the damn thing built and sold at a tidy profit. And anything that costs extra cuts into his profit.

Enter GE appliances.

So that’s what you’re dealing with: cheap GE junk. Oops! Saying GE and junk is redundant, pardon me for repeating myself.