RE: UPDATED - [cobalt-users] SOLUTION RAQ4R - Mail lock error 3 with NO ROOT

["Colin J. Raven" <duiker@xxxxxxxxx>]

|>> The classic part here is the washing machine broke itself
|>;). Never seen
|>> a washing machine have a full load of washing that cannot
|>be emptied any
|>> other way than to pull it apart
|>
|>Only because you haven't seen the right (perhaps wrong would
|>be a better
|>word) washing machine.
|>
|>When I was a boy (about 3,486 years ago-- actually about 50 years ago)
|>my aunt had a front-loader; once the front door interlock
|>broke, and the
|>repairman had to dismantle the machine so my aunt could get
|>the clothes
|>out.

Oh that happened to you too? Well it happened here a short time ago
also. An ancient front loader (27 years young) wouldn't give up the
goods at the conclusion of the wash/spin cycle. The door was locked, and
looked like it was gonna stay locked unless the above measures were
implemented.

Three of us picked up the washing machine and slammed it (hard) onto the
ground repeatedly until the gummed-up relay inside "clicked" and
released the interlock. It happened once after that, same symptoms -
same cure. Subsequently, one rainy Sunday afternoon I amused myself for
4 hours with a few beers disassembling the machine, cleaned all the
contacts in four relays, cleaned out the pump, rebalanced the weights,
and then reassembled the whole shebang and re-leveled it to boot. In the
past 3 months it's worked quieter and more efficiently than (I'm told)
it has done in almost 15 years!

<laughter> "We hack washing machines as well"

Havings related that invaluable snippet of life in the rural regions, I
have to belatedly wonder how the thread deviated from the subject line
of: "SOLUTION RAQ4R - Mail lock error 3 with NO ROOT" since I don't
recall the exact moment the rolling stock got derailed and swerved off
the tracks into *this* muddy field!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Regards to all,
-Colin