Ariston Margherita AWD12 spin button.

Re: Ariston Margherita AWD12 spin button.

Penguin45 wrote:In for slow spin.

Penguin45.

Thanks fella 😉

All the best ..

T i m

Re: Ariston Margherita AWD12 spin button.

iadom wrote:AWD12 😉

Thanks fella!

All the best ..

T i m

helo_75 wrote:have you binned the zanussi then?

No chance … I’m made of more resolute stuff!

AEG Lavamat 6100 Digitronic threw it’s bearings at 10 years. They wanted £130 for a new spider. £10 for two bearings, £15 for a new seal and some fun in the workshop later and it’s running again.

Then at 12 years it tripped the RCD. Blew the carbon out the motor, sorted. 😉

Now at 15 years there is this 18K between the stator and ground and the motor is about to have a soak in some distilled (or RO) water as a final go and clearing it.

In the mean time the Zanussi tumble dryer needed a new front and rear bearing .. now running fine again (£36 all in).

To cover us while the AEG was offline a mate gave me his ‘faulty’ Ariston. Once I’d removed the clothes that had layed wet in there for a few months, removed the necklace that had caused the pump-out pump to ‘fail’ [1] and the congealed power below the power tray that was causing it to ‘leak’, that’s running fine but for how long (from what I read they seem to be very unreliable)?

The Zanussi is waiting till I get some time to disect it and I’ll report back here what I find.

In the meantime I’ve been selling the ISE concept … one neighbour has been consuming one washing machine every 18 months .. (but now has a Miele).

All the best ..

T i m

[1] It was a right struggle to open the pump cover and it was quicker / easier to remove the pump and do it on the bench?