Baumatic B144SS Oven Not Heating Up - Fan Not Working

The Baumatic oven in our rental property seems to be a fairly unreliable piece of equipment. The fan has already failed once and I had a call from the tenants this week that the Baumatic B144SS electric oven was not working after the rear of the oven/fan started glowing hot and the Baumatic oven was no longer heating up.

It appears that the element has failed on the Baumatic oven and that the element needs to be replaced. There are 4 screws holding on the rear plate of the oven which covers the fan and element. On inspection the element had broken so was no longer a continuous loop. A replacement element was £25.



Baumatic Oven Not Heating Up - Element replacement

The element is straightforward to fit and is attached by 2 screws that are easily accessible.

Once the element is replaced then the rear plate can be fitted back with the 4 screws again.

Sumvision Cyclone Astro+ Android 7" Tablet Review

This is a review of the Cyclone Astro+ by Sumvision which is a 7" Android Tablet running Android 4.0.1 ICS that connects via WiFi.

The tablet is well constructed and allows access to the Google Play store. It has a slot to enable additional storage to be added using micro SD cards.


Sumvision Cyclone Astro+ Android 7" Tablet Review

The main downside that I have found with the Cyclone Astro+ Android 7" Tablet is the Wifi connection doesn't automatically restore when in range of a previously used network. There may be a software update to resolve this but it is frustrating to need to reset the WiFi every time you move back into range of a hotspot or the tablet wakes from sleep mode

Microsoft Money 2005 Crashes on Startup Windows Vista XP

Are you having problems with Microsoft Money where it crashes on startup ? The error given is APPCRASH and identifies NTDLL.DLL as being the cause.

I recently had a MS Money file that crashes everytime that it was opened, leaving an LRD file behind of the same name as the MNY file. MS Money closed as soon as the program loaded and it wasn't possible to update any settings in the file.

On further investigation it appears that there was an error with the reports that were being shown on the home screen. A different MS Money file could be opened successfully and data viewed. In addition the repair option within Money was tried and this didn't detect any errors in the file.

In order to resolve the problem I tried a number of different solutions suggested in various forums including changing DEP settings to exclude MS Money from being checked but none of these worked.

As I thought the problem was due to the home screen configuration trying to display some invalid data and other files opened ok, I thought that being able to change the home screen configuration may resolve the problem of MS Money crashing on startup if the settings applied to any MS Money file not just the one open at the time.

The solution I found was as below:

Step 1:
Run MS Money with a new or blank file

Microsoft Money 2005 Crashes on Startup Windows Vista XP

Step2:
Go to the Tools menu and select Settings.

Step 3:
In MS Money settings, choose the Homepage Display options

Step 4:
Remove all the items in the list so the homepage will be blank.


Microsoft Money 2005 Crashes on Startup Windows Vista XP

Step 5:
Close MS Money and re-open the file that was generating the error.

Hopefully your MS Money file will now open successfully.

This experience has reminded me of the benefits of having multiple version backups of your MS Money files so that you can restore back to a recent timepoint rather than needing to input masses of  data again.

Canon Pixma MG6150 Scanner Error 214550 WiFi

I've recently started getting Error Code 2,145,50 on my Canon Pixma MG6150 Printer/Scanner when scanning multi page documents back to my PC using WiFi. This has never happened before but is now happening routinely whenever scanning. The PC is running Windows Vista 64 bit.

The last scan I successfully did was at the start of Oct so I am wondering if one of the Microsoft updates in mid October has affected security or some internal settings.



Canon Pixma MG6150 Scanner Error 214550 WiFi

As soon as I find a solution I will post it here but if anyone has a fix please post a reply below.

Newsnight PPI Scam Claim Company Ripoffs

Rather appropriately after I posted on the blog earlier today about the PPI Text message scams that are annoying mobile users across the country BBC Newsnight ran a report this evening about the PPI Claims industry and their methods for gaining customers.

PPI Claims Spam Text SMS message companies
Entitlement Agency PPI Claim ripoff



Newsnight PPI Scam Claim Company Ripoffs
 

Is The Entitlement Agency Legitimate or a Fake Scam?

Is The Entitlement Agency Legitimate or Fake? Is Entitlement Agency a Scam? PPI Text message Spam

Despite its official sounding name The Entitlement Agency is nothing to do with government and all to do with spamming people about PPI claims. Rather misleading of them to try to use a name like that to give the appearance of helping people claim - but they have a history in this field having previously claimed Childrens Tax Credits for people as this BC news story explains http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7785813.stm

The Entitlement Agency are buying up lists of contacts harvested by spammers sending out thousands of nuisance text SMS messages to mobile phones. They may be able to legitimately claim that they are not sending out these spam text messages but by buying the lists from spammers they are creating a demand that causes more spam to be sent.

The Entitlement Agency seemed to have no interest in checking if a PPI claim was genuine but only that they wanted details to send off to their investigations team. I was very clear that no PPI was ever taken out yet they still insisted they wanted to submit a claim.


Is The Entitlement Agency Legitimate or Fake? Is Entitlement Agency a Scam?

As a company that generates spam text messages even indirectly I would avoid any contact with them and do not give them any of your contact details. Having used methods such as spam text messaging you have no idea what will happen to your personal data once they have it.

Frozen Pension SMS Text Spam - Cash Payment Scam

Following on from the PPI compensation spam text messages the spammers have now moved on to frozen pensions. The following message was received - the receiver has no pension and there are no contact details or reason for being sent such a message.

Hi, As you have a frozen pension, you can get a large cash payment within 4 weeks. to get it started reply CASH to this text.

Message sent from 07901-277329

Frozen Pension SMS Text Spam - Cash Payment Scam