GHD Helios HE001 Hair Dryer Tear Down — Transcript

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4. 0:19somebody on my YouTube channel asked if
5. 0:21I would do a tear down of the ghd Helios
6. 0:25hair dryer and uh I do happen to have
7. 0:29one uh in a box which is brand new and
8. 0:33uh so yes here we go um first of all we
9. 0:38have the quite thick instruction manual
10. 0:42in multiple
11. 0:44languages it comes with a single
12. 0:49nozzle uh that nozzle
13. 0:53is a 70 I can't remember let's just get
14. 0:56the calipers out so it comes with a 7
15. 1:00mil
16. 1:02nozzle we
17. 1:05have hair dryer
18. 1:13itself this is a white one with you know
19. 1:18what I can't tell what color that
20. 1:20is kind of looks Chrome but it looks
21. 1:23like it might have a tint of color in it
22. 1:25and I don't see all colors perfectly
23. 1:28being slightly color Vision
24. 1:31defective uh this is a
25. 1:33simple push fit on there and this is a
26. 1:38metal piece here that it goes on to so
27. 1:41uh there's really no reason why you
28. 1:43should ever damage this although I had
29. 1:46did have a customer contact me saying
30. 1:47that they couldn't get this on to the
31. 1:50end and uh they apparently they had not
32. 1:53damag this so I never really got to the
33. 1:56bottom of it because they didn't send in
34. 1:58the hair dryer for a pair maybe they
35. 2:01dropped it really hard and damaged the
36. 2:03end but you would think they could only
37. 2:05knock it inwards and this would still go
38. 2:07on anyway whatever so we have the
39. 2:12usual two-speed switch two heat settings
40. 2:17uh obviously can be used in any
41. 2:20combination and we have a CO shot button
42. 2:23so when you squeeze that that cuts out
43. 2:25all of the Heat and I do do tell
44. 2:29customers after a repair but it is a
45. 2:32very good idea when you're finishing
46. 2:34using these um not just to turn the P
47. 2:37let say you've got it on the second heat
48. 2:40setting doesn't matter what speed it's
49. 2:42on whatever it's really really hot do
50. 2:45not just turn these off with the heat
51. 2:47left on and turn the fan off that will
52. 2:50leave an awful lot of residue heat
53. 2:52inside uh the hair dryer and it's my
54. 2:55belief that that can cause a premature
55. 2:58failure of the thermal F that is fitted
56. 3:01inside these I think it's a much better
57. 3:03idea to leave the fan on turn the heat
58. 3:06off and just wait until these blow out
59. 3:09cool air and you can feel it's cool and
60. 3:12at that point turn them off that's how I
61. 3:15believe you're going to get the longest
62. 3:18use out of this particular model in fact
63. 3:21any hair dryer I would think the same
64. 3:24goes but that's just my uh opinion the
65. 3:27most important thing on all of these
66. 3:29hair drers the ghd air and the uh the
67. 3:33Helios so the air is the air 1.0 this
68. 3:36Helios is the
69. 3:38H1 they all have their little labels uh
70. 3:42in fact this isn't a label it's just
71. 3:44printed onto the body but they're all
72. 3:46marked we have single screw under this
73. 3:50cover here and then under these this
74. 3:54trim here there are another further two
75. 3:57screws and then we have a cap and screw
76. 4:00that goes through this silicon rubber
77. 4:03hanging uh bit here um yes as I was
78. 4:08saying it is crucial to keep this cover
79. 4:13uh clean to remove it just twist
80. 4:16anticlockwise any sort of 10 15° and
81. 4:19lift it away the same goes for the air
82. 4:221.0 although the twisting is a little
83. 4:25bit further and then you will find that
84. 4:27the Air1 mesh will just fall out
85. 4:30uh in this case it has been twisted and
86. 4:34it's held in place by three plastic tabs
87. 4:39again don't know whether you're going to
88. 4:40be able to see them you can take it out
89. 4:41if you need to you just pivot spin this
90. 4:44around in this case it's pretty tight
91. 4:47yeah but you can normally just spin this
92. 4:50here we go spin it
93. 4:53around and line up the tab with the
94. 4:57little slots and it will lift out is
95. 5:00useful if it gets completely blocked you
96. 5:03might want to then put it onto something
97. 5:07and just brush it out with a toothbrush
98. 5:10if it's really really clogged what I do
99. 5:12is use some isopropyl alcohol and uh let
100. 5:17it soften up the dirt and then just
101. 5:19brush it all out hold it up to the light
102. 5:22you'll be able to see if any of those
103. 5:24tiny holes are blocked if they are just
104. 5:27to get the
105. 5:28toothbrush down it into the holes and
106. 5:31then brush away hold it up to the light
107. 5:33again and you will see that you know
108. 5:35eventually you will clean all of those
109. 5:38holes
110. 5:39up clean them out even let's get that
111. 5:43back in
112. 5:47there there we go I think close there we
113. 5:51go and then just twist it around a
114. 5:54little bit so it is locked in place and
115. 5:56won't fall out at that point you can you
116. 5:59put it on the back just spin it around
117. 6:02and eventually you'll find exactly where
118. 6:05it needs to be CU it will just go in you
119. 6:07see the way that just went in there and
120. 6:10then click and that is done okay
121. 6:15absolutely critical got to keep that
122. 6:16clean reduced air flow means hotter
123. 6:19temperatures CU there's less air being
124. 6:22blown out just going to remove this for
125. 6:24the
126. 6:26second now getting into these uh with
127. 6:29without damaging anything is virtually
128. 6:32impossible I don't think I've ever
129. 6:34achieved it and the reason is um ghd
130. 6:37don't make anything to be repairable the
131. 6:39hair dryers the hair straighteners all
132. 6:41of their products they don't sell spares
133. 6:43they don't complete repairs it's down to
134. 6:45companies like ours uh to repair their
135. 6:49products wherever we can but that means
136. 6:52these are not designed to ever be opened
137. 6:55by anybody so this plastic plug whil it
138. 6:58looks all very neat and this is finished
139. 7:00very nicely now it was not designed to
140. 7:02be taken out again okay now I'm not
141. 7:06going to be able to show this very
142. 7:08easily but anyway what I do is I get a
143. 7:10razor blade and I will get a very thin
144. 7:15blade screwdriver the first thing I will
145. 7:18do is tuck the razor blade into the
146. 7:23end and uh would you believe it this one
147. 7:27is going to come out just fine normally
148. 7:29I will prize it up a little bit with the
149. 7:32razor blade like that and then the flat
150. 7:35screwdriver I will tuck inside next to
151. 7:38it and we'll just give it a little
152. 7:40wiggle around and eventually you will
153. 7:43free up this little plug enough to get
154. 7:49it out there like that that is highly
155. 7:52unusual it could be that I've taken this
156. 7:54pair apart in the past I don't remember
157. 7:56that but maybe I did us usually you will
158. 8:00always leave a little Mark on here where
159. 8:03you've prized it up and the plastic is
160. 8:05bent uh don't worry too much it is
161. 8:07purely cosmetic once you've put that
162. 8:09plug back in uh then you can get a
163. 8:13rounded
164. 8:14screwdriver and with some Force just
165. 8:17roll over the damaged plastic once it's
166. 8:20back in there so you'll get it and you
167. 8:23will roll that screwdriver up just
168. 8:25flatten that plastic
169. 8:28off now the next
170. 8:30thing is I always make sure that these
171. 8:35buttons and screw are tight so with a
172. 8:38bit of pressure on that back button
173. 8:40there I bend the silicon and I will test
174. 8:45that screw and just screw it back in
175. 8:48until it's tight once you uh get this
176. 8:52lost you're in trouble that will
177. 8:54eventually come out all right now on to
178. 8:57the next tricky part part this trim is
179. 9:01in two parts we have a switch side half
180. 9:05and then we have
181. 9:07a other half on here what you've got to
182. 9:10do is just gently Bend
183. 9:12this cord back and with again that flat
184. 9:17blade small flat blade we're just going
185. 9:19to tuck it in there and we're going to
186. 9:22try and lift
187. 9:23off really
188. 9:25carefully without scratching
189. 9:28anything the
190. 9:31half there now I've just managed to
191. 9:34release that a little bit get the
192. 9:36screwdriver just gently run it
193. 9:39around and
194. 9:41then once you've done
195. 9:43that you should be able to get into
196. 9:48here and lift it off
197. 9:52completely can be a bit
198. 9:56stiff I've never broken one but this
199. 9:58feels a bit stiff um to get the other
200. 10:00half off which I'm going to do first
201. 10:02actually just tuck that screwdriver into
202. 10:05that slot there and press the other one
203. 10:08up slightly there we go you can see
204. 10:10that's come off this time just run the
205. 10:12screwdriver
206. 10:14around and that one will come off and
207. 10:17that's going to give us a little bit
208. 10:18more room to get this other side off
209. 10:21it's just a bit stiff that one for some
210. 10:25reason be very careful with those okay
211. 10:28they're nice cosme metic pieces uh you
212. 10:31can snap them I've never done it but I
213. 10:33have seen other people customers snap
214. 10:37them trying to get into these now
215. 10:41the first screw at the uh into here is
216. 10:48an unusual type you'll need a
217. 10:50security bit set you see that
218. 10:54one can be a little fiddly a little
219. 10:57tight but you just need to line the
220. 10:59security bit
221. 11:01up and
222. 11:03then H Twist and Turn normal
223. 11:08anticlockwise normal screw thread Etc
224. 11:12it's just got that security
225. 11:16bit you can tap it a few times and it
226. 11:19should fall out now this is where a lot
227. 11:22of these are
228. 11:25broken the screws down at this uh cable
229. 11:28end are very small screws they go into
230. 11:32tiny little bits of plastic and I often
231. 11:34see uh all of this area broken and that
232. 11:37is because of uh plastic fatigue it can
233. 11:41be caused by hair products being sprayed
234. 11:44around and it eventually affects the
235. 11:46plastic and it makes it quite brittle
236. 11:48and this whole area here I often see
237. 11:53broken and quite often I have to super
238. 11:56glue these parts back together and uh
239. 12:00and then put the trim back over it's
240. 12:02perfectly okay uh but just bear that in
241. 12:05mind and be careful support the back of
242. 12:10the hair dryer where these screws are
243. 12:14and with the right size screw drive just
244. 12:16go in and undo these tiny
245. 12:21screws got to support the back you don't
246. 12:24want any of this flexing then onto the
247. 12:26other one supporting it all with my
248. 12:28thumb
249. 12:33spin over that's falling out anyway
250. 12:36right at this stage this is on here
251. 12:39pretty tightly and what I do normally is
252. 12:42just bend it up a little bit from the
253. 12:45back here there you go see you can see
254. 12:47that that tends to free up a little bit
255. 12:50of plastic here and it will now if
256. 12:53you're lucky yeah it'll just come away
257. 12:57like that but again be gentle don't be
258. 13:01forcing anything uh if it doesn't appear
259. 13:03to be coming off make sure you've undone
260. 13:06this screw I've made that mistake myself
261. 13:08I've started off at this end completely
262. 13:10forgotten that I've left that screw in
263. 13:12and I've got you know up here before I
264. 13:14realize that something is not quite
265. 13:17right so this is uh the inside of the
266. 13:22Helios it's a pretty straightforward and
267. 13:25simple arrangement we have a very thick
268. 13:28round cable now if we saw a round cable
269. 13:31on ghd H straighteners alarms would be
270. 13:34going off because they do not come with
271. 13:36a round cable they never have done only
272. 13:39the fake ghd hair straighteners have had
273. 13:42round cables fitted to them but
274. 13:44obviously on the hair dryers these have
275. 13:4613 amp fuses we have uh 2,200 watts of
276. 13:52uh Power potentially being used
277. 13:54depending on the settings a nice big
278. 13:56chunky cable is required
279. 14:00um
280. 14:01this cable relief strain relief is
281. 14:05molded onto this cable so if the cable
282. 14:08is damaged um this whole lot has to be
283. 14:11replaced with a used genuine cable I
284. 14:16have experimented with cutting uh The
285. 14:20Strain relief out and removing the cable
286. 14:24um and then Super Glu in the whole
287. 14:25assembly back together again it's
288. 14:28slightly messy op unfortunately I've got
289. 14:30enough spares that I've never had to do
290. 14:31it but if we ever run out of spares it
291. 14:34is possible to just split that open and
292. 14:38gently par out all of the old cable fit
293. 14:42a new one and then seal it all back up
294. 14:44again now the cable is held in place
295. 14:47here by pretty much the same Arrangement
296. 14:50you would get in a UK plug it's just two
297. 14:55screws see how that flexes you got to be
298. 14:58real careful with these uh whole the
299. 15:02plastic is quite flimsy make sure you're
300. 15:04supporting
301. 15:06it pretty much like a UK plug grip
302. 15:11Arrangement then we have the uh little
303. 15:15circuit board we have two switches we
304. 15:18often see wear of the switches The
305. 15:22Rocker switches themselves wear uh the
306. 15:25contacts inside wear uh we have replace
307. 15:29M parts for all of this so we'll always
308. 15:32be able to repair uh these switches for
309. 15:35you on the back again a lot of different
310. 15:38wires soldered in here going to various
311. 15:43points that is the cor shot switch and
312. 15:48this one is uh under tension when you
313. 15:51press it and then it will release these
314. 15:54do fail uh we have Replacements of those
315. 15:58the cor shop button itself can be pushed
316. 16:00out so watch what you're doing if you do
317. 16:02open these that will fall out and be
318. 16:04lost on the floor very quickly uh if
319. 16:07you're not careful now compared to the
320. 16:10Air1 this is a completely different uh
321. 16:13motor this has a control PCB fan uh is
322. 16:18same design but the shaft is a different
323. 16:21size so if you're repairing one of these
324. 16:24and you need the fan for it uh then make
325. 16:27sure you order the correct fan for the
326. 16:29Helios because the diameter of the shaft
327. 16:31is different uh these do get broken uh
328. 16:35if the hair dryer is dropped you can
329. 16:37easily snap a blade uh the usual way to
330. 16:40notice that is when you turn them on
331. 16:43there will be this very very high
332. 16:44frequency
333. 16:45vibration um if you're unlucky and
334. 16:48you've broken a few they really will be
335. 16:50shaking around um we have in the past
336. 16:54got over that by snapping out the
337. 16:57opposite blade and that will even things
338. 16:59out a bit but of course you're then
339. 17:01missing two blades for air flow which
340. 17:04causes you know can cause overheating
341. 17:06and then failure of the thermal
342. 17:08fuses sorry thermal
343. 17:10fuse um so yeah just for the replacement
344. 17:13we have these
345. 17:17available undo this with a spanner or in
346. 17:20my case I use the pliers just
347. 17:26grip just grip the
348. 17:30fan and twist once that is loose you can
349. 17:35just lift this off now on older ones you
350. 17:38can find this quite hard to remove there
351. 17:41will be a buildup of hair possibly on
352. 17:43this shaft uh and that can make this
353. 17:46quite hard to uh get off so we'll put
354. 17:50the fan to one side now at this stage
355. 17:52this motor uh will just lift out it is
356. 17:56on rubber mounts the Air1 motor was
357. 17:59screwed in place and uh but this one
358. 18:03will just lift
359. 18:05away and we'll lift out the heating
360. 18:10element assembly as well now in there we
361. 18:14have the
362. 18:17direction I don't know what you call
363. 18:19that a guide that's got to go in a
364. 18:22particular way
365. 18:24the oops if I can show you they are
366. 18:27horizontal
367. 18:29and inside also we have a
368. 18:31mic uh sort of paper it's like a
369. 18:34cardboard it's a very high temperature
370. 18:37resistant mic material can get a bit
371. 18:40Fragile with age and a bit crumbly
372. 18:43certainly on the older air ones we do
373. 18:45see them crumbling a little bit um but
374. 18:48on these air sorry helios's uh they are
375. 18:52pretty good so that's that now if we go
376. 18:57and quickly look at
377. 18:59the
378. 19:01element there are two uh separate coils
379. 19:05corresponding to the two positions on
380. 19:08the switch um there is a
381. 19:13thermal let me see
382. 19:16it okay so just in here we have a
383. 19:19thermal actually I can't see what you're
384. 19:21looking at from okay just in there is a
385. 19:24thermal
386. 19:25cutout uh and just on the other side
387. 19:28here is a thermal fuse it is critical if
388. 19:32you are repairing these to fit the
389. 19:35correct thermal fuse it is really hard
390. 19:38to get these out in fact I have repaired
391. 19:40these before uh because I am looking at
392. 19:44a replaced thermal
393. 19:46fuse uh so yes I have in fact repaired
394. 19:50these in the past I thought they were
395. 19:51brand new I mean they are they're unused
396. 19:53but for some reason the thermal fuse had
397. 19:56been uh tripped on this pair uh I have
398. 20:00replaced it um broken wires can be an
399. 20:04issue um it's very rare to see any
400. 20:08element wire damage on this model the
401. 20:11older Air1 had a coiled um almost coiled
402. 20:16spring like look and that was wrapped
403. 20:19around this similar mic material and
404. 20:22they definitely would break quite
405. 20:24frequently um once they've broken uh all
406. 20:28sorts of damage damage can
407. 20:30occur uh broken fan blades if they do
408. 20:34break and they can come off and they
409. 20:36will literally fall down into the
410. 20:39element and if you notice that vibration
411. 20:41and then ignore it you'll find that the
412. 20:44plastic fan blade will sit there and it
413. 20:46will be burning against the element uh
414. 20:49wires here and you can get them so badly
415. 20:52burnt that they melt and they are
416. 20:55embedded into the corals of wire and it
417. 20:58can be difficult uh almost impossible to
418. 21:02get them off of the uh wire element
419. 21:05wires um we generally manage and we'll
420. 21:08use a wire brush to get as much plastic
421. 21:11off as possible but there may be some
422. 21:13residue smell residual smell of burning
423. 21:17over the next few weeks as the uh final
424. 21:19bits of plastic just burn themselves
425. 21:22away now onto the motor now generally
426. 21:27this is a very
427. 21:29uh nice uh reliable motor but we'll
428. 21:32cover a couple bits in a minute uh do
429. 21:34note if I turn that on now at the mains
430. 21:37uh it knows that that fan is not fitted
431. 21:41so this will just pulse uh and if I put
432. 21:44it onto speed to it will pulse even
433. 21:46quicker um so if if the fan is not
434. 21:50fitted this is not going to work so I
435. 21:53don't expect to be able to plug this in
436. 21:55and just in fact I might even
437. 21:57demonstrate that for
438. 21:59whatever you do with any of these make
439. 22:02sure uh you know what you're doing if
440. 22:04you're plugging anything live like this
441. 22:06and make sure the heat is always off
442. 22:08especially on the Air1 if you turn the
443. 22:10Air1 on uh and it's in the open like
444. 22:13this even if the fan was on there
445. 22:15clearly this element is going to get so
446. 22:17hot immediately and you are going to do
447. 22:19damage so fan is off sorry this heat is
448. 22:23off we got to make sure that the fan is
449. 22:25also off everything's clear we'll plug
450. 22:27it in hold
451. 22:31it that's interesting this one didn't
452. 22:35pulse that's where you should do it's
453. 22:37just pulsing because it can sense
454. 22:39there's no
455. 22:42weight very surprised that that is
456. 22:44running I've never had that
457. 22:46before usually it does
458. 22:49that so that was interesting for me
459. 22:53actually now there is a problem with the
460. 22:58these motors whilst they are generally
461. 23:01reliable every so often we come across
462. 23:04one that has blown itself to
463. 23:07Pieces um there are three wire
464. 23:10connections to it and uh you you will
465. 23:14notice if it has failed um a lot of
466. 23:17burnt components let me just show you
467. 23:20the board you'll see a lot of burnt
468. 23:23components and if you turn it over and
469. 23:25you look inside here you'll see even
470. 23:27more burnt components and if you
471. 23:30actually take these screws out and start
472. 23:33lifting all the covers off there's three
473. 23:36screws this side and all of this will
474. 23:38come away uh leaving just the stator and
475. 23:42the what I would call the Armature but
476. 23:44it's it's not that type of motor um that
477. 23:47is the bit that you can see just inside
478. 23:51uh so there'll be loads of damaged
479. 23:53components and uh even if we could work
480. 23:56out the exact reason why it is failed uh
481. 23:59that it's not going to be possible to
482. 24:00repair it even if you knew what all the
483. 24:02damage components were and there's going
484. 24:04to be you know 12 15 damage components
485. 24:06at least uh on this the damage is
486. 24:09usually
487. 24:10extensive uh it goes up in such a bang
488. 24:13that the uh windings here uh will be
489. 24:19burnt uh this is not damaged to the
490. 24:22coils themselves it's uh damaged from
491. 24:25the exploding components but it looks
492. 24:27like it's got hot enough and there's
493. 24:29enough damage there where I absolutely
494. 24:31could not trust uh that coil of wires
495. 24:35now uh to be undamaged uh so I would
496. 24:39never attempt to repair one of these for
497. 24:42all of the components I did read
498. 24:44somewhere online somebody was thinking
499. 24:47that they were going to be able to
500. 24:48repair these once they sourced various
501. 24:51parts and and stuff like that but
502. 24:54everyone I've seen the damage is huge uh
503. 24:57and no way you could use that absolutely
504. 25:00no way so if you see that um then these
505. 25:05are pretty much scrap um I would say
506. 25:08that up until a few well maybe a month
507. 25:11ago I would repair these for our fixed
508. 25:13fee of 3999 and if the motor had failed
509. 25:16it was uncommon enough for me to use one
510. 25:19of my spare Motors because I try and
511. 25:22keep a few in stock as we get low on
512. 25:26stock I have now decided that if we do
513. 25:30have to repair a motor it's going to be
514. 25:31another 30 these are so hard to get hold
515. 25:34of at a reasonable price used even
516. 25:37faulty um and obviously I don't want to
517. 25:40buy a faulty one that has a blown motor
518. 25:43that doesn't really get me very far at
519. 25:46all so if we have damage like this and
520. 25:48the motor's blown uh you can opt to pay
521. 25:52uh the extra and have that repaired and
522. 25:54it's probably still worth it even at70
523. 25:57because this is a you know nearly 200 lb
524. 26:00uh hair dryer so yeah just bear that in
525. 26:03mind if I contact you with they saying
526. 26:06I'm sorry the motor PCB has blown up uh
527. 26:11yeah I'm not making it up I don't want
528. 26:12to have to change it because I hate
529. 26:14wasting stuff like this um but that is
530. 26:16the reason that this will never be
531. 26:19repairable if that happens fortunately
532. 26:22it's it's uncommon if I do let's say I
533. 26:26do 50 repairs I'll probably see one
534. 26:29blown motor uh
535. 26:32PCB so that's it really um putting it
536. 26:35back is pretty much the same as getting
537. 26:38it out there is one real pain in the
538. 26:41backside there is a rubber insert here
539. 26:46that keeps the wires from chaffing on
540. 26:49the plastic uh that wasn't fitted on the
541. 26:53Air1 the wires would just go into a
542. 26:55little Groove here as you can see here
543. 26:57but on this one they've decided to fit
544. 27:00this little bit of silicon um if you
545. 27:04leave it a little bit up in the air like
546. 27:06that and try and Slot these things into
547. 27:11it before lowering it down we're just
548. 27:15going to put the fan back in there first
549. 27:18make sure all the wires are the right
550. 27:19way around then we're going to put the
551. 27:22motor back in and in this case we've
552. 27:26managed to get those wires in into that
553. 27:29sleeve and what we can do now is just
554. 27:32force all of that down like so and the
555. 27:38wires are nice and safe running through
556. 27:41that silicon piece uh at this point
557. 27:44you've got to line up the switches there
558. 27:48are some little
559. 27:50holes that it lined up with and uh the
560. 27:55other awkward thing here is just getting
561. 27:57this cor shop button at the right angle
562. 28:00and back in to place I can't do it on
563. 28:03camera cuz it has to be on my
564. 28:05lap and then just try it see that is in
565. 28:10the perfect position switches are down
566. 28:13we've got the cable in the right place
567. 28:17don't forget to
568. 28:19put the
569. 28:22cable
570. 28:24retainer plastic back in place and uh
571. 28:28again I can't really do this in front of
572. 28:31the
573. 28:32camera for
574. 28:35you maybe I can now but really really
575. 28:39need to be supporting this they're quite
576. 28:42coarse threaded
577. 28:45screws so you need a fair bit of
578. 28:47pressure to do those
579. 28:50up there we go that's those done up
580. 28:54don't
581. 28:55overtighten everything is lined up up
582. 28:58and now we've got to put the fan back on
583. 29:01now it is critical again that the fan is
584. 29:05placed back in the same
585. 29:08place there should be a little bit of
586. 29:11space just on the shaft showing there if
587. 29:14you put it on too far the system the fan
588. 29:17will foul the plastic in there if you
589. 29:21put it on too high it is going to fou
590. 29:24plastic of the cover and you may not
591. 29:27notice that iMed immediately but when
592. 29:29you assemble them and you start shaking
593. 29:31them around as if you were doing hair uh
594. 29:33you might find that the little bit of
595. 29:37movement on the rubber mounts is just
596. 29:41enough for this fan to touch the body uh
597. 29:44of of this so something else to look out
598. 29:47for again spanner is ideal really but I
599. 29:50never have them here so I just used the
600. 29:54pliers and that is that
601. 29:59just check for free movement check all
602. 30:01the wires are rooted correctly
603. 30:04everything is good cool shot button is
604. 30:06fine again it gets a little bit fiddly
605. 30:09here I tend to tuck in the handle bit
606. 30:13first it's got to go under
607. 30:17here so don't start that way tuck it
608. 30:20into there first and then bring it down
609. 30:24at the
610. 30:26front ah let ping out so we're going to
611. 30:28have to do it again so what to do
612. 30:31keeping it on camera there we go that's
613. 30:34it and then press and it will click into
614. 30:38place just look around make sure you've
615. 30:41got a
616. 30:43nice Gap or not much of a gap all the
617. 30:47way around it needs to look the same if
618. 30:48it's a if it's pushed apart you know in
619. 30:52here it could be that you've got the
620. 30:53core shot switch not quite in the right
621. 30:55place and it's stopping the middle going
622. 30:59together correctly at that point we will
623. 31:02get the first screw back into the middle
624. 31:06little tip here it can be very stiff bit
625. 31:09of isopropyl alcohol couple of drips
626. 31:12into there and with the security bit
627. 31:16I'll drop that in and whilst that ISO
628. 31:21propile alcohol is in there it's a lot
629. 31:25easier to do these up and of course
630. 31:28within a short period it has evaporated
631. 31:31it's going in very
632. 31:33easily and nip that up again don't
633. 31:36overtighten any of these right now onto
634. 31:39the screws at the end push this all
635. 31:42together please make sure you are
636. 31:44supporting the back here one screw in
637. 31:49make sure you've got the right size
638. 31:51screwdriver and gently screw this in
639. 31:55very easy to snap this plastic out just
640. 31:58need this I mean barely nipped up you
641. 32:01just need to feel it
642. 32:05stop or you will start breaking things
643. 32:08especially on the older versions where
644. 32:12they've seen a lot of use and things are
645. 32:14a bit fragile Plastics a bit Harden you
646. 32:17know that sort of thing right plug that
647. 32:20can literally just be pushed back
648. 32:24in now if you have got that Dam there
649. 32:28this is when you will get your
650. 32:31screwdriver and just literally smooth it
651. 32:35down wherever that damage is and it will
652. 32:38just cosmetically look a little better
653. 32:40but as I say these are not designed to
654. 32:43be
655. 32:44repaired so you're going to have to put
656. 32:47up with a little bit of cosmetic damage
657. 32:48on this model uh there's very little we
658. 32:51damage on repairs normally but that
659. 32:54little bung is one of them now we've got
660. 32:59to put this piece on we'll go with the
661. 33:02split piece first lift that silicon up
662. 33:05and slide this under at that point
663. 33:09you're going to need to bend back the
664. 33:13cable
665. 33:15tension piece here just bend it out of
666. 33:18the way like that and click that last
667. 33:20bit in it's quite
668. 33:23stiff and this one will just go in so
669. 33:26click one side spin around click the
670. 33:28other side and uh
671. 33:32that is that do not run these without
672. 33:36the air filter um you can buy these from
673. 33:39us if you've lost one you've got to keep
674. 33:42you wouldn't believe the hair dryers
675. 33:45I've seen full of hair dirt dust just
676. 33:49terrible you know it's a fire one of
677. 33:51them was so full the hair and dust
678. 33:54filled the entire enclosure of the hair
679. 33:58dry I do have that on film from some
680. 34:00months ago I had never seen anything
681. 34:02like it it was like a bird's nest of
682. 34:05hair and dust incredibly dangerous um
683. 34:09situation that could have caught fire at
684. 34:12any time because the elements were
685. 34:14heating up and there was no air flow so
686. 34:16it wouldn't have taken very much to have
687. 34:18ignited the hair and dust and there
688. 34:20would have been a fire going on um that
689. 34:23was because this filter was missing so
690. 34:26do not run it without that filter okay
691. 34:28so I start with everything
692. 34:30off and we'll check the
693. 34:35fan and then we'll put it on fast with
694. 34:38the
695. 34:54heat and then with the heat off I'll
696. 34:57just run it for for a few seconds just
697. 34:58so it cools down completely and I can
698. 35:01guarantee nice long life to these hair
699. 35:05dryers and I suggest you would do the
700. 35:07same uh
701. 35:12thing just notice that is not quite
702. 35:15horizontal so at some point I'll
703. 35:16probably take these apart but as I said
704. 35:19earlier do make sure that is hor oh
705. 35:22there you go just clicked into place for
706. 35:23me do make sure that those are
707. 35:26horizontal hopefully you can see that
708. 35:28let me turn it upside down yeah I think
709. 35:31you can see that so that's it really um
710. 35:34very nice expensive hair dryer uh fully
711. 35:37repairable fingers crossed that you
712. 35:39don't have a motor blur um but we do
713. 35:42have Motors currently available uh to
714. 35:46swap uh cables no problem everything
715. 35:50else no problem dodgy switches you might
716. 35:53find that they don't turn on uh you
717. 35:55might find that the heat doesn't work
718. 35:57work uh all of these things are
719. 36:00repairable so that's it that is a tear
720. 36:03down of the ghd Helios
721. 36:06H1 and yeah I hope that was useful well
722. 36:09at least to the person that asked about
723. 36:11it on uh on YouTube so thanks for
724. 36:13watching