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What do you all do if you have a lovely balanced drum but the bearings have gone and took the spider with them. These are beginnning to become a pain in the asterix.. I have a load of drums here that need new spiders but they are bar stewards to get off and I have broken so many torx bits trying.
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GeorgeRe: Hotpoint Drum/Spider Advise
Some people use an angle grinder but I use a titanium drill bit to drill out the bolt heads, lasts ages and drills them off in no time at all.
Used to use the bullitt drill bits but they didn’t last for a single drum most of the time.
The genuine bolts are a bit pricey but I think there is a non gen alternative that is quite cheap.Still working my way through a bagful donated to me by a retiring ex colleague.
Jim.
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Ok guys… will try with Titanium as soon as I can.. Thx for the tips… hate losing good drums.
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I’m probably wasting my breath but usually you don’t need to change the spider on the large drum Hotpoints as the seal does not run on the shaft surface.
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I would agree, I would guess that I change the spider on one in five bearing/rear half jobs, just clean up the shaft most of the time.
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Me too but have noticed the 30mm ones are very unforgiving of even a trace of play once back together 😯 Had one fail in under a month a while back :rolls:
Bearing lock fluid might help on some of them ❓Re: Hotpoint Drum/Spider Advise
I did mean the 35mm ones, wouldn’t risk it on a 30mm shaft/bearing, just not up to the job in the first place.
It would be new 35mm spider and bearings/rear half or nothing.
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Yes, I agree, I don’t normally change the spiders but on these ones here the bearings have worn into the shafts.
George
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Well, I had a 35mm spider/drum rear half change this afternoon. The drum shaft was totally unmarked, shiny as new, only problem was that the drum support was in four pieces. 😀
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Yup, Had that one too.. but in that case the drum was damaged, as was the outer drum front & rear… Only thing that was in tact was the bearings 😆
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If the torx screws are not to rusty i find if you give the heads a good couple of wacks with a drift, most of the time they will unscrew fairly easily if you need to drill out as Jim says a Titanium drill does the job,JJ
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Just for info the bolts used on Zanussi automatics fit the Hotpoint spider and being 10mm headed dont cause further problems.
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have got bots out sometimes after heating with blowlamp but most of the time drill is only answer
using a 30 torx head on these bolts is silly 40 would be nearer the mark but no doubt indes**t had there reasons
Dave
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