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Why do door seals have so little clearance with the lip of the drum? Since the part of the door seal that goes under the lip doesn’t seem to be important in waterproofing or anything, what would happen if you cut it back or filed it back a bit to give more clearance?
Re: Door seals on washing machines
DIYNewbie wrote:what would happen if you cut it back or filed it back a bit to give more clearance?
You’d end up with some very chewed laundry, not to mention socks disappearing and blocking the pump 😉
Some door seals even have a moulded ‘lump’ to ‘kick’ back any items that dare to stray too near the gap between drum and seal 😉
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Thank you. I have a problem with a door seal that is rubbing. We had the machine repaired for a “squeak” once, but the squeak returned immediately. The repairman (by email) says that the fault was due to the door seal being out of place, and we could push it back. He said in his email that otherwise he would replace the door seal for the cost of the part alone, which sounds fair since we have paid him for labour once without the fault being fixed.
Looking at the door seal all the way around the drum, it seems to be very close to the drum lip at the bottom, where it is rubbing. But at the top the position of the lip on the door seal appears to be very different, and it’s well back from the lip on the drum. Or another way to put it is that the drum is not centered in the door seal. The repairman described replacement of the seal as the “worst case” scenario, but I’m wondering if the drum, rather than the seal, could be in the wrong place. Particularly since the repairman said that the seal appeared to be in good condition.
Is going for a seal replacement very likely to solve the problem properly? Or could we end up back in the same situation?
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You’d prolly know if the drum was out of position either by it running eccentrically due to it being bent, or by excessive noise from drum bearing failure.
Far more likely is the seal itself is slightly mis-shapen…it does happen occasionally when they’ve been stored incorrectly and ‘remember’ the wrong shape they’ve been forced into whilst stored (often at the wholesaler so don’t automatically blame the engineer). Sometimes it’s just the seal hasn’t been located precisely on the tub or it’s clamp band isn’t quite in position.
Get the guy back….if he’s only just replaced the seal he should sort it free of charge even if another seal is required…if you found him on here then he definitely will 😉
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clivejameson wrote:You’d prolly know if the drum was out of position either by it running eccentrically due to it being bent, or by excessive noise from drum bearing failure.
Far more likely is the seal itself is slightly mis-shapen…it does happen occasionally when they’ve been stored incorrectly and ‘remember’ the wrong shape they’ve been forced into whilst stored (often at the wholesaler so don’t automatically blame the engineer). Sometimes it’s just the seal hasn’t been located precisely on the tub or it’s clamp band isn’t quite in position.
Get the guy back….if he’s only just replaced the seal he should sort it free of charge even if another seal is required…if you found him on here then he definitely will 😉
He’s agreed to replace the seal for the price of the seal alone. That sounds fair to me as the amount I would have paid would be the same as if he’d changed the seal in the first place. He offered this solution when I asked him about the first repair not working. I’ve emailed to accept that offer. He didn’t replace the seal the first time.
I did try to find a repairperson on here, but the only two companies that came up in the search were a fair distance away.
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DIYNewbie wrote:
He’s agreed to replace the seal for the price of the seal alone. That sounds fair to me as the amount I would have paid would be the same as if he’d changed the seal in the first place. He offered this solution when I asked him about the first repair not working. I’ve emailed to accept that offer. He didn’t replace the seal the first time.
That sounds fair enough 😉
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