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  • Swish Autoglide motor failed (finally)

    From Andrew@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 16 19:42:47 2025
    I bought the first one in about 1995 and it worked fine for
    years until one I got home and the motor had popped out the
    locking clamp, rotated and fallen on the carpet where it must
    have just buzzed away for an unknown length of time.

    By then Swish had sold the brand to Silent Gliss and it has
    been obsolete for many years, motors are no longer available.
    Luckily B&Q sold off their unsold stock for peanuts so I got another
    control unit and motor and silly money. The gearbox in that motor
    has now failed. The gear teeth are black plastic molded onto brass
    centres and one has simply fallen off in two semi circles.

    The motor is marked "ITT automotive 24V 404.095 31/95"
    and I have found a site in Switzerland that has 16 new ones
    for sale that look almost identical.

    https://www.tutti.ch/it/vi/zurigo/giardino-e-fai-da-te/attrezzi-e-macchine/swf-itt-getriebemotor-24v-404-095-neu-16-stk/49774342

    The only difference is the marking 47/97 which I suspect is the
    gearing and the shaft is too long and lacks the two flats on either
    side. Nothing that an angle grinder cannot 'fix' though. Also
    three wires, mine only has two.

    Trouble is this site has many scam warnings and you have to create
    an account.

    Has anyone bought anything online from Switzerland (or is the seller
    in Italy) since Brexit ?.

    Andrew

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to Andrew on Sun Feb 16 21:17:49 2025
    Andrew <[email protected]> wrote:
    The motor is marked "ITT automotive 24V 404.095 31/95"
    and I have found a site in Switzerland that has 16 new ones
    for sale that look almost identical.

    https://www.tutti.ch/it/vi/zurigo/giardino-e-fai-da-te/attrezzi-e-macchine/swf-itt-getriebemotor-24v-404-095-neu-16-stk/49774342

    The only difference is the marking 47/97 which I suspect is the
    gearing and the shaft is too long and lacks the two flats on either
    side. Nothing that an angle grinder cannot 'fix' though. Also
    three wires, mine only has two.

    I'd have thought it's a date code: week 31 of 1995 for yours, week 47 of
    1997 for theirs. Could you swap bits over from yours?

    Trouble is this site has many scam warnings and you have to create
    an account.

    Seems legit, it's like a Swiss ebay:
    https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutti.ch

    As usual it's only as good as the specific seller.

    Has anyone bought anything online from Switzerland (or is the seller
    in Italy) since Brexit ?.

    Not I. If they refuse to send it there are forwarding companies providing a local address to send it to, and they ship it on.

    Theo

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to Andrew on Sun Feb 16 22:36:04 2025
    Andrew <[email protected]> wrote:
    Has anyone bought anything online from Switzerland (or is the seller
    in Italy) since Brexit ?.

    The seller is in Wallisellen which is a suburb of Zurich. It looks like the Italian is just because you have the website in the Italian version.

    I suspect you're going to have to send them a message and ask what they're prepared to do. It looks like Tutti is a sort of classifieds site where
    you're expected to talk to the seller to arrange pickup, rather than an ebay where there's shipping involved. But you could do something like arrange a courier collection from their address and that would take care of the import paperwork too, although there might be no comeback if they ran off with the money.

    Theo

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  • From Andrew@21:1/5 to Theo on Mon Feb 17 18:21:06 2025
    On 16/02/2025 22:36, Theo wrote:
    Andrew <[email protected]> wrote:
    Has anyone bought anything online from Switzerland (or is the seller
    in Italy) since Brexit ?.

    The seller is in Wallisellen which is a suburb of Zurich. It looks like the Italian is just because you have the website in the Italian version.

    I suspect you're going to have to send them a message and ask what they're prepared to do. It looks like Tutti is a sort of classifieds site where you're expected to talk to the seller to arrange pickup, rather than an ebay where there's shipping involved. But you could do something like arrange a courier collection from their address and that would take care of the import paperwork too, although there might be no comeback if they ran off with the money.

    Theo

    Thanks

    Probably too much hassle, so it's time to have a re-think about how to
    automate the curtains,(if at all - which will mean all new rails and
    curtains which is a job that I prefer to avoid until absolutely
    necessary).

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