Any home appliance engineers on here?

[Lugy]

I need help! Does anyone know about washing machines here? Being me, I've managed to break mine through overloading () resulting in it making a whore of a noise with anything heavier than a hanky in it, I've taken the back and top off and it seems that the drum is now loose (up and down movement). The big pulley doesn't have any play so I assume that the drum has come loose from this, though I'm probably wrong lmao. I can see bearings at the back of the pulley and there is no play in these.

Any suggestions as to what to do next?

[Dom]

There are normally some springs and shock absorbers holding the drum to the outer casing. You also need to check the concrete lumps are still in the right place.

[Lugy]

I've checked over the springs/dampers and the blocks, everything is still as it looks like it should be. Currently trying to get the tub out lmao. According to the internets it could be the spider?!

[RodOGW]

Same thing happened to me about 10 years ago - spent about £50 on parts and was it still useless - went down somewhere like Comet and put £40 down and got a new machine delivered a couple of days later with a year to pay for it - and it's still going.
I hate fixing washing machines - any little jobs that need doing now I pay a professional.

[Lugy]

I'm just tight, if something won't still work when it's broken and if it looks vaguely fixable then I'll try and fix it lmaolmao.

[jamied]

soon as the drum goes get a new one as said above, only thing i have replaced is pumps, motors and bushes on washing machines...ohhh and rubbers..ohh errrr

[RodOGW]

soon as the drum goes get a new one as said above, only thing i have replaced is pumps, motors and bushes on washing machines...ohhh and rubbers..ohh errrr

Agreed - pumps etc are OK - but drums - sod'em.

Definitely don't want leaky rubbers - and keep them lubricated...

[Lugy]

^LOL - bloody kids, eh?

Apparently a new drum assembly is £lots, it doesn't seem to come apart but the drum is "serviceable". Looking at this spider effort it seems that's what's up with it. I might just drop the thing off at a local appliance guy and get him to replace it.
I'd still rather do it myself though!

[Big Col]

If you've overloaded it the bearings are probably shagged.

When the bearings went on my cheapo Indesit machine a few years back I was advised that it wasn't really economically viable to sort it. There was no play in them but they made a hell of a racket. The cheap machines are designed to last about 1000 washes and be disposable. I think the bearings plus the 'spider' were about 80 quid, plus the hassle of fitting it.

When buying a new one I decided to spend more for a quality machine. Generally speaking you get what you pay for.

[Allvaux]

My domestic appliance broke once. I just gave her a kick and she fired up again.

[MSG]

Replacing bearings and spider is all you need, get a spider with prepressed bearing as trying to fit one yourself without a press requires gentle hammering skills, without damaging the bearing and its rubber seal as you try to hammer one in, if you can take out the old bearing from the spider then you won't need a new spider, but usually these are bastard to come off. In most machines the bearings wear out mostly due to water seal allowing water seap-age which can accelerate the bearing wear and tear.

I have replaced quite a few bearings and drum seals, front door seal, etc. all went smooth accept in one case I had to replace the spider as the bearing was really stuck so hard due to corrosion in the housing.

[Melv]

2nd hand one, £50. If it lasts a couple of years it's probably better than fecking about fixing one.

Either that or a couple of hundred for a new one you gypo!

[MSG]

Agree if your machine was only worth under £200, but for more xpensive maqchines costing in the region of £399 onwards, it is well worth repairing them .

I bought a Zannusi turbodry for well over £400 and I can't even remember when or which year it was bought, seems it must have seen good 20+ years and is still going strong with no sign of breaking down as yet, I did however change the Motor once and managed to get a secondhand for around £25.00 from my local repair/secondhad appliance seller. It has lasted me this long because unlike some miggers they shove in a cylinder heads and what not to clean up! (Lol) seriously someone on here did just that!! lol

[Ed]

Surely that was a dishwasher, not a washing machine?

[RodOGW]

Surely that was a dishwasher, not a washing machine?

Correct - it was EY - my son....

[MSG]

aayes my bad, ! it was a dish washer! sorry

My confusion might be the result of YouTube videos i saw on washing machines being abused by blokes putting heavy objects inside and wrecking them to pieces!

I thought it was on Mig i saw!! lol

[jamied]

i put a few heads in my old dish washer...think the thread is on here (made sure the salt, ect was out) works fine but only do it with a cheap one you are getting rid of.

[MSG]

Oh great! so I did remember it right! Jamied owneds it!lmao

[RodOGW]

Jamied started the thread off in July '09 and EY followed it up - here's the link:

The Head Cleaning Experiment...Part 1

[king nero]

probably shagged bearings - if you're a bit handy, not that big of a deal to change 'em yourself - did several already. It helps if your company pays for the bearings and you charge people dealership prices lmao...

[Violet]

Lugy, yesterday:

[Ed]

Haha poor thing.

[Lugy]

lmaolmao

I'm still chuckling at that after 7 times lmao

As for my one, I gave it a bit of a hit, something went bang and now it's not as bad as it was lmao.

[wayne451]

I'm still in shock that a Scot bought a washing machine in the first place!?! I bet Lugy dragged his old mangle out again?

'Fooken technologae. I still cannae get channel 5 on the fooken microwave.'

[Lugy]

It was already here when I moved in, it's the latest model,