Blomberg 1501 AAA vibration

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Hi,

I have a Blomberg 1501 AAA machine which has been great, but having recently run out of its extended warranty guess what – suddenly we are getting excessive vibration during the spin cycle. First reaction congratulations to the Blomberg design engineers for planning the product life cycle so accurate. I guess the bearings are on their way out, so they need replacing ASAP. This is the only problem.

Question: where can I get a replacement set of bearings, is it going to be that straightforward or is there an expensive disaster looming?

Any advice/comments welcome

Thanks in advance

Alan

[Penguin45]

Hi Alan,
Dave Conway will be able to source the bearing and seal kit for you.

The job itself involves removing the rear crosspiece and assaulting the bearings with a steel bar and a lump hammer. Not exactly subtle, but very theraputic!

If you have any doubts, get some professional help. Whatever you do, pull the plug first.

Regards,
Penguin45.

[Dave_Conway]

Re: Blomberg 1501 AAA vibration

I can source them but the only problem with these Brandt appliances is the info I will have will only relate to the genuine part numbers and from memory they want about £25 for each bearing.

Alan, if you do as Penguin says and knock the two bearing s and the seal out and let me know the sizes I can supply them that way at a much more reasonable price for you.

Probably around £25-£30 for the whole kit or even less depending mainly on the seal.

Dave.

[clyde]

Re: Blomberg 1501 AAA vibration

The whole bearing assy is available under part no 55×5839, but check the cross peice for a green coloured spot as there is 2 different sizes available under the same part no!, a yellow spot on the cross piece is generally for the 1100 machines and a green spot is from 1300 -1500 spin machines.

[Dave_Conway]

Re: Blomberg 1501 AAA vibration

Thanks Clyde, price code H8 though 😯 (£60 ish)

The last time I ordered a complete cross piece from Brandt for an Ocean it came without the bearings and seal, needless to say the insurance company concerned were none too impressed when they had to pay for this plus the two bearings and seal on top 🙄

Dave.

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Thanks for the advice! Now that Xmas is over I need to get on with fixing it – or not. One view that has been expressed to me is “don’t waste your time with a 5 year old machine, new machines are cheap and other things will go wrong so just run it till it breaks”. Is this a sensible view? The machine has been very good, works well and seems to me worth fixing. Are they generally considered reliable?
A decision is needed soon so I would appreciate any views on this!

Alan

[kwatt]

Re: Blomberg 1501 AAA vibration

Hi Alan,

I had a quick look at the diagrams for this machine and it looks like the German built one. That being the case you’re not going to replace it with anything of comparable quality (IMO) for any less than £4-500 I reckon.

Kinda makes the bearings look cheap doesn’t it? 😉

K.

PS. you can also buy just the bearings (see Dave) and seal if you’re feeling up to knocking them out the housing…. even cheaper! 😉

[SnapCracker]

Re: Blomberg 1501 AAA vibration

Hi,
I found this forum site whilst figuring out the problem with my Blomberg 1501AAA washing machine. The drum was not turning at all. I saw the details about the source of the brushes and went to tackle trying to remove the old one’s when I discovered only one of the wires had broken off from the connector to the brush. I order to easily get access, I had un-bolted the motor from the frame of the drum. I rectified the problem with a new spade connector and bolted the motor back lining up the belt. A week later my wife had told me that the machine had ‘gone mad’ and nearly walked across the floor and fused the kitchen sockets.
I have just discovered that the two mounts that hold the motor in place to the frame had fractured sending the motor to the base of the machine where there was some water and that’s how it fused the live feed.
Prior to all this, the machine would make a noise like a diesel engine with the big ends gone when on it’s spin cycle. I discovered that the two bolts which hold the outer fixed drum to the frame had vibrated free and dropped to the bottom making a slight gap to hammer together with the vibration.
I have never had any problems in the 5 years of ownership and this has all happened a month or so after the extended service agreement had ran out! I wondering now whether I should keep going fixing it up. Are new motor very dear?
John

[Penguin45]

Re: Blomberg 1501 AAA vibration

As discussed above, these are a decent quality appliance. However the last price I had for a motor on these was £145, plus VAT, Dely, etc. The design life of a washer was always nominally 7 years, nowadays not even vaguely achievable by some of the cheap rubbish out there. Yours is a rather better quality machine so should have a few more years left in it.

Bit to think about,

Regards,
Penguin45.

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