Why is the belt on my Sears/Whirlpool washing machine burnt out?
The belt had stretched so much that I couldnt' tighten it two years ago so I replaced it. So the current belt was only two years old.
I had just done a load and it worked fine. Went upstairs during the middle of the next load and when I came down, full of water and wouldn't do anything in any part of the cycle. (This one has a mechanical clock timer so you can put it to any part of the cycle.)
The agitator would move and the basket would turn, so I figured ??????
No. It's 44 years old and it still has 25 or more years left in it.
I would not buy another machine until I knew what was wrong with this one, and that it was very expensive to fix. For example, the first machine I owned (not my parents) was a Whirlpool basically like this one that I found on the corner 1/2 block from my apartment, borrowed a dolly, brought it home, cleaned up and used for 5 years until it would not spin. Working with the Whirlpool Cool Line (which finally doesn't exist anymore) we concluded it was the basket main bearing but the basket was rusted to it, and it to the center shaft, and it couldn't be removed, even by a pro. So I got rid of it and 4 months later found a much newer Whirlpool right across the street from my apartment. It was full size but still had wheels, so I could just roll it home. Wheels because it was designed for an apartment. I had a place to put it right next to the sink but many people needed the wheels. (The kitchen sink in this 1930's building had two sides, one shallow and one as big as a laundry tub.) That machine was still working perfectly when I left NY.
Well, it's good that you suggest a top loader. But it doesn't match my dryer. But it's a much cheaper model than I'm used to, and it wouldn't match my dryer.
After having a front loader for several years, I'd never get a top loader. They are easier on my clothes, use a lot less hot and cold water, and save a huge amount of dryer time and energy over the previous top loaders I've had, although the new ones might be better now.
If you overload a top loader, the agitator chews up the clothes at the bottom, and the clothes at the top hardly move at all. Maybe overloading burns out the motor's belt.
You forgot to mention the amount of detergent you can save in a front loader because you use less water.
I think i've allways wanted poassible matches to match.
One of my favorite questions is:
You have 4 wheels on your car and 2 pairs of wheels or wheel covers and each pair matches each other but doesn't match the other pair. like A A B and B.
So do you put both A's on one side and B's on the other so that when looked at from either side, the visible wheels match. OR Do you put one pair on the front and the other on the rear so that you know, when you're in the car, that it's symmetric?
I tried asking this question or ones like it to a girl on date once. I wanted to get to know her in a deeper way than most first dates bring. She didn't like it. I had to stop.
I'm a thrifty guy in most ways but I've never worried about the water or soap.
You can add clothes in the middle of a cycle to a top-loader. My machine, I can stop it at any part of the cycle and r estart it at any other part, and I do that quite a bit.
I read about one young lady that had a way of dumping a guy that she did not want a second date with. She would tell the guy the moon was not real, it is a man made illusion.
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