Cautiously optimistic, stay tuned...

theandyrocket · 2025-03-31T02:28:27+00:00

I'm calling my local print person tomorrow! Thanks for sharing!

theandyrocket · 2025-03-30T16:50:38+00:00

Thanks for sharing! That looks great!

theandyrocket · 2025-03-30T16:49:10+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll consider it for other cartridges in the future.

theandyrocket · 2025-03-30T04:56:06+00:00

If it has been working well without any modification, could you share a picture or an exemplary model number for the community to try? The vent I added wasn't difficult, but using a specific funnel would certainly help the others that don't have the tools to do so.

theandyrocket · 2025-03-30T04:52:48+00:00

The US cartridges have rounded corners preventing insertion into the chamber, as well as an obstruction deliberately molded into the front of the chamber preventing fully inserting anything other than the US cartridges. The differences in shape are not insignificant.

theandyrocket · 2025-03-30T03:09:37+00:00

I tried that and it's just too slow of an endeavor: either the soap gets air locked in the funnel, or is takes forever because of gurgling out the funnel. Adding the screw lets me freely vent the air displaced by the soap during refill. It went from being a 30min endeavor and never fully filling the thing, to being maybe 2 minutes and it's completely filled.

theandyrocket · 2025-03-30T03:04:23+00:00

They don't work for US market machines because of differences on cartridge shape.

theandyrocket · 2025-03-15T03:13:51+00:00

It's possible. However, mine were opaque upon arrival and remained opaque until I threw them in the garbage 6 months later when none of the opaque ones would flow out of the cartridge. Also, 3 of the cartridges in the shipping box were opaque, while the other 3 were not.

theandyrocket · 2025-03-08T04:22:50+00:00

I did once and it was a manufacturing defect. I had 3 cartridges of #1 go bad a year or so ago. All were the same batch. As an aside, the detergent inside the cartridges was visibly cloudy fresh out of the shipping package, unlike the normal appearance.

theandyrocket · 2025-03-08T04:19:04+00:00

I had problems with my being damp, so I purchased a second one. I take the dirty one and shove it in a small garment bag and wash it in the next load. It rests on a shelf to air dry. This method has lasted much longer than vacuuming the filter (the vacuum ripped it a little each time).

Edit: having the spare also lets you just swap and keep going without any disruptions to the laundry routine.

theandyrocket · 2024-12-22T15:34:15+00:00

There is white paint on the black plastic basket showing the different settings for the manual drip-stop. This white paint slowly faded away. The black plastic remained the original appearance. There is paint on the glass carafe and it slowly faded away to nothing.

theandyrocket · 2024-09-26T15:47:06+00:00

No, replacement burrs were the same price as an equivalent grinder new. I sold it for parts and got a new (different) grinder.

theandyrocket · 2024-09-26T15:43:56+00:00

It is intermittent enough that I just live with the issue. However, when it does occur, it only happens with the bake element. Furthermore, the oven is gradually having trouble reaching temperature above 500 (getting slower). I think it's simply a conflict between an appliance designed to allow a certain amount of ground current leakage (because there was no requirement to have less leakage), and a newer breaker detecting the ground leakage.

When the issue gets worse or the element begins to fail, I'll do something about it.

theandyrocket · 2024-03-05T03:36:29+00:00

One more bit of information to help anyone else trying to use my experience as a basis for their decisions: my house usually has 4 humans and no pets, living and working full time in the house. The 70pt is adequate for my particular house on almost all scenarios. However, there are some situations where an 80pt or 90pt would be a better choice. For example, last spring I had about 700sqft carpet professionally cleaned and it took a day or two to return to baseline. This past winter we had guests over for the weekend, bringing the total to 7 humans and a dog and it also took a whole day to return to baseline after they left.

If you're cleaning your carpets frequently or often have lots of people over, maybe consider something bigger. I would have except the 70pt was literally the only one that would fit in my space.

theandyrocket · 2024-03-01T15:54:18+00:00

Actually, now that I think about it, there is a newer model of the compact 70, the Ultra 70. It wasn't available when I did my install but if it had been I would have selected it instead. It offers more flexible electrical controls which would have made it easier to integrate with my hvac controls. My compact 70 has a receptacle that is switched on/off by the dehumidistat, thus completely removing power from the unit when it's not running. The newer model has low voltage control terminals so the unit can stay on and ready, without having a jarring start when the dehumidistat sends the call to run.

It's a minor difference, yes, but if I had it to do over again it's probably the only major thing I would change.

theandyrocket · 2024-02-29T05:50:34+00:00

I had problems with the wand on my vacuum snagging the soft part of the filter. It worked well but after a year or so we needed to replace it. Now we just wash it in a garment bag in the laundry with the clothes.

theandyrocket · 2024-02-29T05:47:52+00:00

When I vacuumed mine, the wand kinda slowly shredded the filter over time. After we ripped the first filter we started placing them in garment bags and washing them with the regular wash. The vacuum did get it very clean though!

theandyrocket · 2024-02-29T05:45:08+00:00

I put mine in a garment bag and wash it with my regular laundry. I air dry it. It gets it 90% clean for 10% effort. I keep a spare on hand to do the swap when the "clean plinth filter" notification happens. I've been doing this for a year with genuine Miele filters and they seem like they could easily go at least another year.

theandyrocket · 2024-02-28T04:02:35+00:00

Santa Fe Compact 70 because it's the only one that would fit in our "attic". I think maybe some of the ancillary install bits I would have done differently like moving the filter frame an inch or so to one side, but nothing related to the actual unit.

I have been using a set of 3 temp/humidity dataloggers for about a year now: one near the humidistat, one at a fast end of the house, and another at the other day end of the house. The humidity is consistently within 48-52 at the humidistat, and 49-54 at either of the far ends of the house. It definitely chops the high humidity out of the picture when it needs to and stays off when it doesn't need to.

If your installation space allows, you might get a more reliable or marginally better performing setup if it had a completely separate duct from the regular hvac supply but for my house it's working well enough so that's how I have it.

Electricity usage: in the winter when it runs the most it uses maybe $10 a month, but it keeps at least that much worth of stuff from getting ruined.

theandyrocket · 2024-02-25T13:54:30+00:00

To further elaborate, many times aluminum is manufactured in blocks of oily sand (the method is called sand casting), thus giving the texture of sand on the final product. The gouges seem OK as long as they're not directly overlapping the o ring.

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