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Post by bargemast on Feb 22, 2018 21:01:58 GMT
Good news! The Italian Polish Chinese washing machine now has a shiny new element fitted and is firing on all cylinders and hotting the water up nicely. It is on notice though. One more >£20 component fails and it's to the great washing machine scrapyard in the sky with it. Fingers crossed that isn't before there's enough in the fighting fund to replace it with a Samsung or Miele machine 😵😵😵🔨🔨🔨🔨👍👍👍🍻 Bad news The Italian Polish Chinese piece of shit is exhibiting signs of drum bearing failure. It's not goosed yet, the fucking thing is not having another penny spent on it. It will die a noisy ignominious death and then get turned into baked bean tins. At the moment the fighting fund is being spent productively on boat bits. If it shits itself before there is enough in the pot for a decent machine I'm going down the £150 Candy route and binning the twat the moment it plays up. Arse! Good luck mate, and don't give up. It's almost unbelievable what you can achieve with a sledge hammer, if you'll have to We use to call that "gentle persuation". Peter.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 21:49:12 GMT
Bad news The Italian Polish Chinese piece of shit is exhibiting signs of drum bearing failure. It's not goosed yet, the fucking thing is not having another penny spent on it. It will die a noisy ignominious death and then get turned into baked bean tins. At the moment the fighting fund is being spent productively on boat bits. If it shits itself before there is enough in the pot for a decent machine I'm going down the £150 Candy route and binning the twat the moment it plays up. Arse! Good luck mate, and don't give up. It's almost unbelievable what you can achieve with a sledge hammer, if you'll have to We use to call that "gentle persuation". Peter. Sadly you can't replace just the bearings, it comes as a complete assembly @ £189. Adding that to what I've already spent on a pump and element brings it to more than the cost of the original machine! shop.zanussi.co.uk/Laundry/Washing-Machines/Drum-Parts/Washing-Machine-Welded-Tub-Assembly/p/1926900109This is where some of the new washing machine money has gone. A useful if slightly expensive piece of ballast.
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Post by bargemast on Feb 22, 2018 21:59:15 GMT
Good luck mate, and don't give up. It's almost unbelievable what you can achieve with a sledge hammer, if you'll have to We use to call that "gentle persuation". Peter. Sadly you can't replace just the bearings, it comes as a complete assembly @ £189. Adding that to what I've already spent on a pump and element brings it to more than the cost of the original machine! shop.zanussi.co.uk/Laundry/Washing-Machines/Drum-Parts/Washing-Machine-Welded-Tub-Assembly/p/1926900109This is where some of the new washing machine money has gone. A useful if slightly expensive piece of ballast. That ballast would surely be able to make the drum spin again, even with completely shot bearings . Peter.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 22:05:09 GMT
That ballast would surely be able to make the drum spin again, even with completely shot bearings . Peter. That enormous lump of metal is a 2.1kw LRS120 starter for a BMC1.5 diesel, all throbbing 4 cylinders and 35ish bhp. Starters have come along way in 60 years! I'll stick a picture of the Nippon denso starter for the GM V6 4.2 L Motors we have at work tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 22:16:39 GMT
Thank goodness for that.
It looked like a bloody torpedo at first sight.
I thought you were really going after the washing machine maker.
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2018 8:33:31 GMT
This spins over another 2.7l and two extra pots - but at a much lower compression ratio. It weighs sod all too. Bit of a twat to fit though.
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Post by JohnV on Feb 23, 2018 12:38:36 GMT
trouble with some of those little ones is they can have plastic cogs. The great thing about the old Lucas ones is that if they go wrong a sharp rap with a hammer often persuades them to work again ...... of course if you do that you must never say it in a post on CWDF the pedants will have you for breakfast !!! My attitude is that if it's fecked then fecking it some more makes no odds
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Post by lollygagger on Feb 23, 2018 12:46:06 GMT
trouble with some of those little ones is they can have plastic cogs. The great thing about the old Lucas ones is that if they go wrong a sharp rap with a hammer often persuades them to work again ...... of course if you do that you must never say it in a post on CWDF the pedants will have you for breakfast !!! My attitude is that if it's fecked then fecking it some more makes no odds My van starter, 70's bosch, has a sticker that reads "do not hit with hammer".
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Post by JohnV on Feb 23, 2018 12:52:13 GMT
trouble with some of those little ones is they can have plastic cogs. The great thing about the old Lucas ones is that if they go wrong a sharp rap with a hammer often persuades them to work again ...... of course if you do that you must never say it in a post on CWDF the pedants will have you for breakfast !!! My attitude is that if it's fecked then fecking it some more makes no odds My van starter, 70's bosch, has a sticker that reads "do not hit with hammer". well it's German .....so what do you expect
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Post by JohnV on Feb 23, 2018 12:55:38 GMT
Achtung !!! ist verboten der hammabonken mitten grabben vill schnappen der maggernots outgopoof mitt spitz und sparks und allees kaput
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Post by lollygagger on Feb 23, 2018 12:55:44 GMT
My van starter, 70's bosch, has a sticker that reads "do not hit with hammer". well it's German .....so what do you expect I use a heavy spanner. 👍
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Post by bargemast on Feb 23, 2018 13:13:04 GMT
trouble with some of those little ones is they can have plastic cogs. The great thing about the old Lucas ones is that if they go wrong a sharp rap with a hammer often persuades them to work again ...... of course if you do that you must never say it in a post on CWDF the pedants will have you for breakfast !!! My attitude is that if it's fecked then fecking it some more makes no odds When I was young, in my school days (years) there were 4 of the 7 children of a farmers family who lived 15 kms away from our school. Winter, snow, rain, whatever the weather was they would always arrive on time, even if they had to fight all the way on their old crappy bicycles against the wind, they were very healthy and strong children. One of the boys became my best friend, and I regulary visited his family home, where everybody was always welcome. They were pretty poor, but always happy, the parents had never been on a holiday in their lives, as for them there was no better place in the world than their farm, with their animals that they all loved so much. The father was a man who could repair anything, and his most used tools were a selection of hammers and some chissels, he always said that if he couldn't repair the stuff he needed on his farm with his basic equipment, he didn't want to use it. The old crappy bicycles didn't cost them anything, as they were all made of abandonned, damaged bicycles that were all over the place in the city, and out off 3 or 4 they made a decent bicycle to go to school on. I often felt sorry for them, but many years ago I realised that they were the happiest family I've ever met in my life, they didn't care at all about wealth, and the word jalousy didn't exist in their dictionary. Sorry that this has become a bit of a long story to say that I agree with John hammer policy. Peter.
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