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Complaint of no action, took lid off expecting to see belt snapped, but it was in place. turned on and it was obvious that belt was slipping. I tipped it over expecting a quick, five minute 1700442 belt change to find to my surprise it had the dreaded ‘stretchy belt’ on it. I had a bit of a fight to get a new belt back on.
Checking on Partfinder just now it does not mention anywhere that the late production of this model had a stretchy belt.
Its difficult to know wether or not to fit the later 9 rib 1703666 belt or the slightly bigger 1701658 belt, the numbers on the old belt were obscured.
The only machine on Partfinder that shows this belt is a TL52PI which is not labelled Hotpoint but Export, could be a ‘back of a lorry’ job lot. :rolls:
Date code 82. BTW.
Jim.
Re: Hotpoint TL52 tumble dryer.
The hotpoint TL 52 has the 170442 belt, but the TDL 52 has
the 1701658 stretch belt.
Roy.Re: Hotpoint TL52 tumble dryer.
I am well aware of that 😉 , however this machine was definately a TL52, not a TDL 52. I do know my TL’s from my TDL’s. 🙂
If you have Partfinder look up TL52PI and you will see it comes up as ‘EXPORT, BROTHER 5kg reversing’.
This machine actually shows a stretchy belt and the machine I went to today definately had a stretchy belt. The machine had not been touched before and there was no sign of any wear around the jockey pulley slots.
Perhaps one of the Hotpoint/Indesit lads could confirm that late model TL dryers do have stretchy belts.
Jim.
Re: Hotpoint TL52 tumble dryer.
I’ve known a few engineers who have lobbed the Jockey pulleys away, and replaced with a stretchy belt either bcause they didint have the correct belt or replacement Jockey pulleys on the van, because of pressure of RFT from above.
Re: Hotpoint TL52 tumble dryer.
This one had no signs of previous jockey pulleys at all, model was a TL52P, Hotpoint Ist Edition.
Just spoken to customer on the phone, purchased from Currys, never been touched before today.
Jim.
Re: Hotpoint TL52 tumble dryer.
You are right Jim the later models(after DC79) had elasticated belt 1701658 fit to them,and they are prone to overstretching.
ps pre DC79 has 1700442 fit.Re: Hotpoint TL52 tumble dryer.
I would have converted it to pulley type belt but didn’t have the small spring to fit between the pulleys, unfortunately I fitted a 1703666, not a 1701658, no wonder it was a bit tight, seemed to run OK though. 🙂 Will be back to fit new rear bearing in six months.
Pity this info doesn’t appear to be in our copy of Partfinder.
Jim.
Re: Hotpoint TL52 tumble dryer.
You mean you seriously expect Indesit to share technical info!!!!!! it aint April fools day for a couple of month yet. 😀
Re: Hotpoint TL52 tumble dryer.
For the money they charge Partfinder should come in a gold plated box.
Have you ever seen a copy of the £25.00 Electrolux group TDS disc. 100 times better than Partfinder at a third of the price. :rolls:
Come the revolution 😉 😀
Re: Hotpoint TL52 tumble dryer.
Where can i purchase the Electrolux disc Jim, i’ve been looking to buy one, also others if they are available cheers JJ
Re: Hotpoint TL52 tumble dryer.
There should be a new 2008 version out soon, Most of the regular spares outlets can get hold of it. If not then I’m sure our very own spares guru 😀 Dave Conway would be able to oblige. 8)
Jim.
Re: Hotpoint TL52 tumble dryer.
Do you guys replace the bronze bearing at the back when you change the machines with the stretch belts? Most i call to have wear on them and when they wear through a groove starts to wear into the shaft and it snaps 8)
Re: Hotpoint TL52 tumble dryer.
I usually whip the drum out of the vented machines micky, easy enough to do & lets you do a total de-fluff. Most need a shaft /bearings/seal kit to let you give any sort of guarantee i find.. Bloody terrible pile of price driven tin foil but earns us a crust eh ? 😉
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