Franks Blog

Monday, May 25, 2026

Dishwasher pt 2

REMOVE TOP

2 long screws

LEFT SIDE

1 short top back

2 short screws under the top

2 medium at the back botoom

1 long screw at the front

Adobe Acrobat opening PDF's

On my PC, suddenly Adobe Acrobat has started opening PDF's.

"Always open PDFs in Acrobat Reader" - I set this to NO and click save preference. Get a nice green response.

BUT it doesn't stick. The very next time I open a PDF in firefox, up pops Acrobat on my other monitor.

I try the same action in Chrome and Acrobat does not appear.
BUT it Does show up when I open a PDF in Edge.

This redit thread points me to

Further investigation: Turns out it is Adobe Acrobat's fault. In Acrobat > Menu > Preferences > General > Disable: 'Always open PDFs saved from the web.' So I clear all the tick boxes.

A little further investigations show that the "Always Open PDF's saved from the web" check box gets SET by switching off the PDFs from your device selector. Hopeless!

Sunday, May 24, 2026

erg#7

Not a bad result 14seconds slower than last Sundays PB. Mildly disappointed but I think I started off too hard and too fast.

Did a nice 6 minute warm up starting slow and finishing off with some 10 to 20 second bursts.

Then a little stretching. Got the music organised and got going. I think I went out a little hard and fast compared to last week where there was a bit of a slower start and built into it.

Happy with overall fitness as I got a 34:51 pb at park run yesterday.

#7 20:38 24-May-2026 @cent 101kg DF115. 27spm

#6 20:26. 17-May-2026 @Centenary. 102kg DF116 28spm

#5 21:26. 10-May-2026 @centenary 102kg

#4. 20.57 6-May-2026 101.6kg

#3 21:17 26-APR-2026 @Centenary 101kg

#2 21:26. 22-Apr-2026 @home

#1 21:45 15-Apr-2026 @home

100.3

Saturday, May 23, 2026

Park Run

Rocks Riverside parkrun results for event #620. Your time was 00:34:51.

Congratulations on completing your 75th parkrun and your 54th at Rocks Riverside parkrun today. You finished in 327th place out of a field of 484 parkrunners. You were the 205th male and came 14th in your age category VM60-64. Congratulations on setting a new Personal Best at this event! Congratulations on your fastest time this year.

Haier Dishwasher

We have a Haier Dishwasher that has developed a problem of not draining.
model hdw13v1w1

PROBLEM
Error Code displayed = A20 ==> Blockage in the drain
Checked that the sink is draining so it's not in our plumbing.
In the end, the drain hose was cracked and sending water into the bottom of the dishwasher. The dishwasher detected water in the bilge and stopped and displayed an error.
SOLUTION - Replaced the hose (with an after market one)
CAUSE - Poor design (See below)

LEARNING - HOW TO DISASSEMBLE

On Floor, Tip onto Right Hand Side
Remove one screw in the base. Near the back. Not the two in the middle.
Leaver off the base

In general no point in removing the kick plate.

SERVICE MODE
Cant work that out

REPLACE DRAIN HOSE

https://youtu.be/GfvriYpRgU8?si=LZNU-6P3o0ch0RSv

ERROR

A10 = Water fill issue - Check tap on and pipe not kinked.

A20 = drainage failure or overfill issue, meaning the machine cannot pump water out properly. To resolve this, you need to clear potential blockages from the filter, drain pump, and waste hose