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Amongst the bits I got from Bill there are a couple of bronze sleeves for the old type Hotpoint drum support spiders. Masterpart still list these, part No. 168743. I suppose the idea is to renew just the sleeve, in cases where it has been damaged by broken bearing fragments but the rest of the spider is in good nick. Has anyone ever used one of these and if so, how did you do the job?
Re: Repairing Hotpoint Spider?
Used to do them on old AEG’s circa 20 years ago…the stated method was to go around the collar with a centre punch to free it (nearly always required a lick of oxy-propane as well), clean off the old loctite (a right pain with emery) then apply new loctite and hope the new collar slid on easily because as soon as you tried ‘persuasion’ it would get bent or dented 😕
…ended up ordering a complete spider usually, it was just a whole lot less aggravation! 😆
Re: Repairing Hotpoint Spider?
I have never done one but I would think that putting the collar into an oven at highest temp for a while would expand it enough to slide onto the shaft easily.
Re: Repairing Hotpoint Spider?
Keep the skin on your fingers – buy a spider & ring complete, quite cheap these days 😀
Re: Repairing Hotpoint Spider?
The Hotpoint ones are quite cheap but I was thinking they might also fit the Zanussi spiders which are at least twice the price.
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