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Summary: If you have a Neptune, you will need this book!
Review: I have not read this book but, sadly, I was duped into purchasing a top-of-the-line Maytag Neptune washer. Four years and over $500 later, I can tell you that I wish I had known more about washer repair. If you have one of these machines, BUY THIS BOOK -- and be afraid, be very afraid. If you have not purchased a Maytag, buy something else. Buy anything else.
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Summary: If you have a Neptune, you will need this book!
Review: I have not read this book but, sadly, I was duped into purchasing a top-of-the-line Maytag Neptune washer. Four years and over $500 later, I can tell you that I wish I had known more about washer repair. If you have one of these machines, BUY THIS BOOK -- and be afraid, be very afraid. If you have not purchased a Maytag, buy something else. Buy anything else.
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Summary: Redundancy in a spin cycle
Review: redundancy in a spin cycle While in one breath claiming to be written "ESPECIALLY for trade schools" and more chapter 1 gives advise on how to deal with parts houses talking you out of repairing your own machine. The "spin" of course is using "trade school" to sell this book. It tells you that you should know how to use electrical tools and testers and then devotes some of its fifty some pages to just that. Redundant is the diagrams and explanations of tools. Douglas Emley then has the audacity, after assuming a trade school would use this book, to suggest that for some repairs one should call a qualified service technician. What do trade schools graduate, unqualified service technicians? The book does not have a trouble shooting section with references so one is forced to read the entire book, fortunately again it is only fifty some pages long. In particular he addresses the transmission and it's repair in this avoidance mode. Not only do you not learn how to repair your transmission problem but you don't have the least bit of a hint on diagnosing the problems a faulty transmission could cause. All said, the diagrams are good and for the most simple advice Maytag Washer Repair Cheap and Easy might meet your needs. But Cheap and Easy should be the description of the effort spent writing this booklet.
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Summary: Redundancy in a spin cycle
Review: redundancy in a spin cycle While in one breath claiming to be written "ESPECIALLY for trade schools" and more chapter 1 gives advise on how to deal with parts houses talking you out of repairing your own machine. The "spin" of course is using "trade school" to sell this book. It tells you that you should know how to use electrical tools and testers and then devotes some of its fifty some pages to just that. Redundant is the diagrams and explanations of tools. Douglas Emley then has the audacity, after assuming a trade school would use this book, to suggest that for some repairs one should call a qualified service technician. What do trade schools graduate, unqualified service technicians? The book does not have a trouble shooting section with references so one is forced to read the entire book, fortunately again it is only fifty some pages long. In particular he addresses the transmission and it's repair in this avoidance mode. Not only do you not learn how to repair your transmission problem but you don't have the least bit of a hint on diagnosing the problems a faulty transmission could cause. All said, the diagrams are good and for the most simple advice Maytag Washer Repair Cheap and Easy might meet your needs. But Cheap and Easy should be the description of the effort spent writing this booklet.
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Summary: Maybe so, but...
Review: While he offers an interesting perspective, Mr. Stuart clearly didn't understand the whole point of the book. Mr. Stuart's main objections seem to be twofold: 1) That the book did not cover the rebuilding of transmissions, and 2) That the book claims to have been written for trade schools. Regarding the first point, NOBODY rebuilds washer transmissions "in the field" anymore; least of all professionals. Not unlike the automotive industry, if one diagnoses a bad transmission in these machines, one removes it and replaces it with a rebuilt transmission, available at most appliance parts stores. In the case of Maytag machines, removing the transmission is VERY difficult, and in my opinion, not to be performed by someone who hasn't done it before. Perhaps Mr. Stuart should be directing his comments at Maytag's design engineers rather than at me. Add the fact that transmission replacements are a minute percentage of the repairs that one will perform on Maytag machines, and his point is really quite pointless. I am truly sorry that Mr. Stuart did not find the rebuild information he apparently was looking for, but the truth is that he does not NEED the info he was looking for. For another opinion on the validity of transmission replacement versus rebuilding as a cost-effective means of repair, I would invite the reader to read the review in Amazon of my washer book, ISBN 1890386022, in which an individual raves about how he was able to easily replace the transmission in his GE dryer. I would also like to point out that of four reviews of my books to date in Amazon, three were five-star reviews. Mr Stuart seems to be the only Amazon reviewer to date who really hated my book. In ten years of writing these manuals, literally 99 percent of the feedback I receive is positive, and I will be glad to share the testimonials I receive with anyone who asks. And what little VALID negative feedback I get, I use to improve the manuals. (I do not consider feedback such as Mr Stuart's "valid," because it is clear to me that he did not "get the point" of the manual, and does not offer any criticism from which I could effect positive changes to the content of it.) With regard to his second point, not three days ago I "audaciously" shipped 35 washer manuals to a trade school in Texas along with 35 each of the dryer, refrigerator, dishwasher and oven manuals. This is not an unusual order for us. Mr. Stuart seems to forget that when they are first entering trade schools, most "technicians-to-be" are basically just do-it-yourselfers. No, this is not information they can graduate on, but then it's not designed to be. This is not a rebuild manual; it is designed, like it says on the cover, to show "DIY'ers and other 'green' technicians" the fastest and easiest way to solve the most common problems they will encounter. Many technicians make quite a good living performing the "parts changer"-type repairs shown in my manuals, and calling in more "experienced" technicians for more complex jobs. In fact, "written for trade schools" IS a sales "hook," but not in the way Mr. Stuart accuses me of. I wrote the manuals for DIY-ers, and when I first published them, that's what it said on the cover. But these manuals are also sold in appliance parts stores. The MAIN customers of appliance parts stores is the home-service technicians, and THEY objected to the parts store carrying books that they felt might cut into their business. So in order to make it more palatable to some parts stores (and thereby make this kind of help available to the public at all!) I HAD to de-emphasize DIY-ers on the cover, and emphasize trade schools. It was more of a political compromise than a sales "hook," but of course, Mr. Stuart had no way of knowing that.
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