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3 May 2006 23:22Oh, yeah, clever!!
The corridor on which I live is, like most in college, equipped with its own kitchen, if you can call it that. Said kitchen has a double electric hotplate type thing, on which one can cook meals. Naturally, the temperature of the plates is controlled by knobs on the front.
For some time now, the knob controlling the larger plate has been sticky - it doesn't quite go all the way off, so unless you switch off the unit using the isolator switch on the wall, the larger plate is always slightly warm.
Well, it's just got worse. I get them impression one of my neighbours has let it get too hot (left it on for hours and hours?), and thus even stickier. It is now perpetually stuck between the 3 and the 4 setting (it only goes up to 5, so this is HOT) and left the isolator on. Cooking could be fun for a while, when I have the choice between "hot" and "off" on that plate, and if "off", the other one will also be off.
Hmm. If I kick up a fuss with maintenance, maybe we'll get a new one... *grin*
The corridor on which I live is, like most in college, equipped with its own kitchen, if you can call it that. Said kitchen has a double electric hotplate type thing, on which one can cook meals. Naturally, the temperature of the plates is controlled by knobs on the front.
For some time now, the knob controlling the larger plate has been sticky - it doesn't quite go all the way off, so unless you switch off the unit using the isolator switch on the wall, the larger plate is always slightly warm.
Well, it's just got worse. I get them impression one of my neighbours has let it get too hot (left it on for hours and hours?), and thus even stickier. It is now perpetually stuck between the 3 and the 4 setting (it only goes up to 5, so this is HOT) and left the isolator on. Cooking could be fun for a while, when I have the choice between "hot" and "off" on that plate, and if "off", the other one will also be off.
Hmm. If I kick up a fuss with maintenance, maybe we'll get a new one... *grin*