TromboneAl
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Looks like it's appliance repair time. I'm just about to open up the washing machine. I hope it's just a bad belt.
I don’t mess with appliances in general. ... Washers and dryers I buy with no hesitation
So I find a belt set on amazon for $15 with shipping. Other than removing those two screws to pull the panel out, no other tools are needed - the belts just slip over the pulleys, the motor is spring-loaded to tension the belts, so that's it.
A washer or dryer fix can be cheap & easy.
Looks like it's appliance repair time. I'm just about to open up the washing machine. I hope it's just a bad belt.
You must have one of those old top loaders!!!
Wish I had one... the 'new' front loader will wrinkle the clothes that the top loader never did...
BTW, DW is now complaining that our front loader is 'old' since it has a problem with a fuzzy robe of DD which weighs 10 lbs or more when full of water... the machine cannot handle the out of balance and make thumping noises...
I have told DW and DD a number of times NOT to put it in the washer and think it can spin it.... without success... DW thinks a 'new' machine would be able to handle it..
A washer or dryer fix can be cheap & easy. Some history:
http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f27/crazy-to-try-to-fix-a-27-yo-wash-machine-67469.html
Like I said, cheap & easy. Easier than shopping for a new washer, and arranging for delivery and installation. And that washer is still doing fine.
-ERD50
BTW, DW is now complaining that our front loader is 'old' since it has a problem with a fuzzy robe of DD which weighs 10 lbs or more when full of water... the machine cannot handle the out of balance and make thumping noises...
I have told DW and DD a number of times NOT to put it in the washer and think it can spin it.... without success... DW thinks a 'new' machine would be able to handle it..
You must have one of those old top loaders!!!
Wish I had one... the 'new' front loader will wrinkle the clothes that the top loader never did...
Well, since you said it . . . I >may< have mentioned how much we like our Staber washer!You can have a washer that is both front loader drum , loaded from the top. Staber. Archaic design, expensive, and bulletproof. The 1st choice of folks living off grid.
Or just buy a SpeedQueen top loader. Semi expensive and semi bulletproof.
I thought I read that the newer Speed Queens weren't the reliable tanks that they used to be. I hope that's not true.
You need to put it in with some other stuff, like some towels, to counter balance the load. They’ll try to spin and then reverse until they can get the load balanced and then spin away. I can imagine a front loading washer that was bought in the last ten years wouldn’t be able to handle a robe. The first one we bought could spin a full load of towels with no problem.
It has been in with towels with no success... the weight of that one robe is so much more than anything else it will not be balanced...
I took it out the other day when yelling at DW and DD and put it in a garbage can... without us squeezing at all more than a quart of water drained out... we took it to the shower to wring out and I swear that there had to be more than a gallon we were able to wring out... AND it was still heavier than a towel!!! But, the machine was able to handle it at this weight...