Bearings broken through disuse?

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  • November 5, 2012 at 1:55 pm #72347
    Remster
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    Folks

    I’ve recently started renting a flat I own to tenants. In the flat is a Hotpoint washing machine I’ve had for seven years. I moved out of the flat six months ago, and the washing machine wasn’t used at all during that time. However, during the first week of the tenancy, the washing maching broke. A repairer has deemed it ‘uneconomical to repair’ owing to broken bearings. My question is this: Is it possible for the bearings to have broken, or to have become more susceptible to breaking, through the washing machine’s disuse? (The alternative is of course that the tenants overloaded it or something.)

    Thanks

    Remster

    November 5, 2012 at 4:30 pm #384294
    Martin
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    Re: Bearings broken through disuse?

    Possibly two factors in this equation to consider….

    1) bearings most likely on their way out during the time you were using it and we’re starting to rumble, I would think, during that long period.

    2) seven year old Hotpoint with noisy bearings hardly worth the bother so I would go along with the repairers decision if I were you.

    November 5, 2012 at 9:41 pm #384295
    bryan-206
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    Re: Bearings broken through disuse?

    To be fair you are lucky they lasted 7 years lol


    Sent from mars

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