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Re: Hotpoint WF630 flooding problem
and im sure your wife will heap loads of praise on you when, as kiddo has warned you, the machine bursts into flames because you have tampered with something that is not adjustable, even to engineers, still as long as your happy!, oh and whats the need to ‘drop it on its end?’
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How do you propose i get to the sump otherwise.
I can’t get in from the top, as there is a massive drum in the way, the access panel in the back is tiny. So unless you propose I lay on the floor tring to gain access through a hole about the size of a shoe box, then I see no other way of getting to the sump, other than to drop it on it’s end.
The machine is in a room about 6 feet x 6 feet with a tumble dryer stacked on top and a freezer at the side of it. The hallway leading to this room about 4 feet wide, by 20 foot long
The only way I’m going to get deep inside this thing is to pull it out of the washroom altogether, which means to remove all the pipework, and as they weigh about 1/8 of a ton, this is not a job I can achive on my own in 15 mins.
I appreciate that there is probably a blockage in the sump, and this is a job for the weekend.
By the time I’d asked the question about the pressure sensor, I’d already determined that I could drop the water level enough to evoke a tempoary solution to my problem.
All I ever wanted was a quick simple temporary fix, but instead I got a barrage of abuse.Oh and yes, I am an owt for nowt merchant, I’m a Yorkshireman.
Who in thier right minds will pay for something they can have for free.For sale £1,000,000, starting price a fiver.
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keat wrote:Not nice being insulted is it.
Nobody was trying to insult you keat from what I can see, you’ve just taken it as an insult from what I see. Quite why I don’t know, all you got was honest advice in an attempt to help you with your problem for free.
Pressure switches are locked for a reason, primarily because if you mess with them you totally change the wash characteristics and timings as well as, on many modern machines, making the wash poor as the wash action relies on the clothing being lifted and dropped, not simply sloshed about. The adjustment on them is VERY fine and even being a fraction of a turn out can cause issues, especially on machines with electronic measuring.
If you’ve adjusted it then it’s knackered as you will never get it back to where it should be.
So whilst you say that the pressure switch is adjustable then yes, physically it is. Practically, it is not. This applies to all washing machines and dishwashers and we all know this.
You’ve now had three engineers with huge experience on Hotpoint tell you this if a little shorter an explanation who between them have an absolutely vast experience on these machines. Don’t you think that they might, just maybe, have more of a grasp of the workings of the machine and what you can and cannot do than you perhaps might?
IMO to ignore advice of that calibre doesn’t strike me as being exactly the wisest thing to be doing.
K.
Re: Hotpoint WF630 flooding problem
keat wrote:How do you propose i get to the sump otherwise.
I can’t get in from the top, as there is a massive drum in the way, the access panel in the back is tiny.That’s what you pay us to do when you can’t.
There is absolutely no requirement whatsoever to turn the machine upside down to simply clear the sump or pump. You’d have to take the dryer off the top probably but that’s about it and there should be enough room to get to most of it if the room is as you describe.
Seems we spanner monkeys may have some worth after all eh?
K.
Re: Hotpoint WF630 flooding problem
6ft x 6ft room?, so you have 4ft x 6ft of space left, with the machine & freezer in place?, assuming the dryer is correctly fixed to the washer (um i wonder?), then you would rather spend a whole day dragging a machine through the house, dropping it on its end (where the suspension will probably come adrift), then pulling it back into the room again?, ok, have a good day, i think its already been mentioned, but you should be able to do this job in the room before your cup of tea is cool enough to drink!
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Now that I’d like to see. By the time youv’e pulled the washer out far enough to get to the back of it, you’d have no route around the back, unless you climbed over the top.
The access panel is about the size of a shoe box at ground level.sorry about the spanner monkey thing, it was a knee jerk reaction to the abuse i got.
Re: Hotpoint WF630 flooding problem
the rear access panel is plenty big enough, they are used by almost every engineer on a daily basis to access pump, sump, motor & the main module, but please be sure to remove the plug and leave out for at least 5 minutes before even removing the cover!,
Re: Hotpoint WF630 flooding problem
Thank you.
I still don’t think it was abuse, you just have to remember that these guys really know their stuff and telling them that they’re wrong when they know they’re right… not such a good plan. 😉
Tip the machine back and much will be revealed. To deal with this you don’t need access from the back or top.
Working in tight enclosed spaces like this is part of what we do, it’s not a problem normally. However, if you’re unsure I’d advise you to leave well alone and to replace that pressure switch, especially if you adjusted the others as well as the middle as they’re the safety and underfill protection usually.
K.
Re: Hotpoint WF630 flooding problem
Access to this one is from the back Ken, plenty of room behind the small back panel, trying to do it from underneath, or tipped on its end :rolls: is likely to get water in places it really should not go.
Jim.
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