Hotpoint VTD20G dryer – scraping noise

[helo_75]

yep, try a couple of washers on the back of the shaft, its just a matter of keeping the drum away from the back, but thats why the new seals a bit thicker
you can buy a modified back panel, with that bit cut out better, but then youll need the modified fans, and the modified fan cover, that was one of the earlier ‘fixes’that didnt work

however, think of this (on a lighter note) if you leave it scraping, at some point, it will wear the metal away, so its bound to shut up!!!

anyway, back to my original statement ( i’ve dome some messin with those dryers, i got ‘vtd arm’ i got so many scars)…………………..

you really need to change the drum to cure it

[Callieskye]

Re: Hotpoint VTD20G dryer – scraping noise

Quick Update

Thanks for all your help with my wayward machine, alas it’s finally kicked it. I managed to reduce the scraping noise and after all the war wounds received during battle I was happy enough to leave it at that… but in the process I found lint in the heating coils… black charred lint. Which makes me happy I decided to take it all apart in the first place. I’d rather mess a few things up and realize my dryer was liable to set the house on fire than do nothing and have the house burn down!

Oh well! Time to scrap this one and buy a new one. I’m only going to be living in the UK another couple years so I don’t need one to last forever so I’m thinking of getting the BEKO DRVS62W with a 2 year warranty. (just don’t want to burn the house down)

Anybody aware of any scrapyards or the like that buy/take old machines for parts? Hate to add to a landfill when 80{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of the machine is pristine and works.

[iadom]

Re: Hotpoint VTD20G dryer – scraping noise

Its a puzzle that you are contemplating a new dryer when the old one is still covered by the manufacturers 5 year parts warranty, even allowing for the amount of cheap rubbish on the market today, I don’t know of a 5/6 kg dryer for under £90.00. The Indesit Company would have replaced all the parts needed for that price.

Jim.

[Callieskye]

Re: Hotpoint VTD20G dryer – scraping noise

..because I was foolhardy and impulsive. (traits I received from my father) So basically, once I’d ruled out our 2 year warranty, I took the thing to pieces… and then performed my own brand of constructive rearranging.. 😳

It was only after, that my inlaws informed me there should be a 5 year, made for purpose guarantee,… which I probably voided by messing around with stuff.

Yeah… lesson learned: Never let a zoologist near your appliances. :rolls:

Unless… they just send you new parts without asking if you’ve dissected it… they don’t, do they?

[iadom]

Re: Hotpoint VTD20G dryer – scraping noise

fraid not, you could always plead insanity, or the fifth amendment 😆

My brother and his wife are both Doctors of Microbiology, both work at the CVL labs in Weybridge, he is a world authority on certain pig diseases but when it comes to changing a simple dishwasher motor with just three basic connections he hasn’t a clue, even though I talked him through it on the phone he still finished up with the earth wire in his hand, so he stuck it on the spare tag on the motor capacitor. DOH. 😆

PS. If you put it back together as neatly as you can you may get away with it, you have nothing to lose really.

Jim.

[Callieskye]

Re: Hotpoint VTD20G dryer – scraping noise

Yup. *laughs* you really should see the damage I did to the back wall… quite impressive for a tiny chick with a big knife! (knuckles are all healed up now too!)

Ya see… in uni they make us dissect stuff all the time.. but never show us how to put anything back together. 🙂 Now you know why I need a new machine. 😆

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