Washing machine misbehaving

[Brian Gaff]

My old Service simply emitted a nasty electrical burning smell, a small phut and blew the breaker. Brian

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

[bert]

Have you had the back off and as previously suggested make a visual inspection of suspension and any ballast?

[Jo Stein]

On 11.01.2013 23:48, JoeJoe wrote: ...

If you try a Google search for "washing machine sound", you will be surprised to see how much help is available for this. By fine-tuning you search, you may find a video that solves exactly your problem.

My machine just stopped. I opened it and found that one of the dampers was loose. I managed to fasten it, and after that the machine was OK. Modern washing machine has a small brain, but do not have communication skills to tell you exactly where it hurts.

[JoeJoe]

Cheers for that.

Decided to run it again yesterday and have a listen. During fast spin (1600rpm) it made a horrible grinding noise (could be heard very loudly on other side of the house, some 15m away, with two closed doors along the way). Stopped it, and there was a faint (burnt?) smell in the utility room...

As the machine has done approx one washing/day over 7.5 years, we decided that it was time for a new one.

Just ordered an 8kg Samsung one - was never aware that they were doing them (or just badging someone else's), but the 5 year part+labour warranty + reviews on Amazon were the clinchers.

Thanks again for all the useful advice - always happy to learn something new.

[Andy Dingley]

The concrete isn't rotating, so has zero kinetic energy. If anything, it'll act as containment.

[GB]

act as containment.

They, in that sentence, refers to 'Indesits'.

HTH