Most easily repairable washing machine

[andyjawa]

“from my point of veiw the unreliability of sealed tubs stems from a cheap and non lubricated water seal along with poor quality thin aluminium spiders” Too true Dave.
I`ve, as well as others, have been saying this for some years now having cut the plastic tanks open of premature failing tank units whether it was bearing failure or / and spider rotting = cracking from sealed tanked Bosch products to Indesits / Hotpoints to Samsung unsealed tanks and many others. It basically boils down, like you say, to el cheapo cost cutting materials and lack of a geased bearing oil / water seal no grease = friction = premature failure = nuked bearings. Even the great Atlant factory in Belarus do not seem to bother with a greased oil seal if you watch the factory video via Youtube and that is surprising to me as their stuff is usually well made and thought out, least historically it always was, certainly in Soviet times, but at least you can take the tank to pieces should the need arise…..which it probably will.

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