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I have an Electra W1042CF1W. The other day towards the end of a normal 1hr cycle, smoke started coming out of the bottom of it. I paused and ended the cycle, turned it off and unplugged it right away. I’ve opened it up to look inside, as on advice from a friend I thought it could have been an issue with the belt. It has no back cover only a top cover, so it’s hard to tell, but the belt appears to be fine. The drum still turns as normal, and it still switches on just fine.
What could the issue be, and is it possible for me to repair it? Is there anything I can do? It’s going to cost more than the machine to have someone come to look at it. Thanks.
Intrigued as to how you saw smoke coming from under the DRUM when the machine was in operation with the door closed?
A smell of burning rubber can be caused by the inner stainless steel drum rubbing on the inside of the rubber door seal due to drum support failure. Furl back the lip of the door seal and look for evidence of this.
“What could the issue be, and is it possible for me to repair it? Is there anything I can do? It’s going to cost more than the machine to have someone come to look at it. Thanks.”
Fairly common. The drum spider is as, Iadom suggests, fractured or the drum is severally warped because the drums are fairly thin. The only way to fix the thing is to buy a new drum since even if the spider drum support arm or arms are fractured that part only comes with as a drum complete. You might have a bit of trouble tracking one down and expect to pay around 110 quid or so.
If you did a lot of low temp washing the spider will rot faster than it otherwise would. Would not make much difference whether you have soft water or hard water, the lower the temp used the bigger the chance of slit / and so bacteria building up within and on the alumimum spider lattice which in itself usually makes the machine smell as the spider gets a jelly type mould. The spider arms are fairly thin anyway! This fault is very common not only on cheap machines. All the machines that I have ever worked on have an ally alloy spider, it is just that some are better than others and last longer until their demise if the drum bearings do not fetch the machine out prior.
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