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Re: WMA bearing change
Zanussi washer dryer drum repair has (for me at least) over the usual washing machine is that darned door seal Sad
Disconnecting and reconnecting that seal from the heater ducting is the only real problem, the rest is a walk in the park (kind of Rolling Eyes )
i did one of these on fri, why disconnect the seal from the heater duct???just unscrew the heater duct and it all comes away door seal intact 🙄
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What is this “Rubena”seal? Have HP changed the spider design? or does the seal still mate with raw steel? It’s been a few years since I opened one up, that I don’t know if things have improved.
Mike.Re: WMA bearing change
The seal originally fitted was a two part all in one seal, using a spring to push the two parts together. The theory was that the spring was too powerful and caused the sealing surfaces to bind together, jam and allow the water in. The new one is supposed to have got round this problem and is known as a Rubena – presumably the maker?
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Penguin45 wrote: The new one is supposed to have got round this problem and is known as a Rubena – presumably the maker?
Chris.
Correct, http://www.edb.cz/E1308392121000not seen one failure,…………………..yet 😉
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Thanks Chris and Idom for your response,I will start quoting for them now. It is such a pity the WM went,the whole M/C was a good earner in every area.
Lets hope IES takes off,it will be interesting to see what it retails at.
Mike.Re: WMA bearing change
Mike,
Sign up for the ISE project – forms and stuff in the Downloads section, then you’ll find out everything about it!Chris.
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jeremy wrote:i did one of these on fri, why disconnect the seal from the heater duct???
just unscrew the heater duct and it all comes away door seal intact 🙄
Tis the easiest way! Where the seal goes onto the heater duct is far to fiddley for me and my hooves!
And if it’s the wash-pump/jetsystem model, I dissconnect the hose from the pump and feed it through.
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dunno what you guy’s are doing, all bearings changes take me no more than 45 minutes, not matter what it is wm,wma,wf, or zanussi even w/d
that include’s throwing on a spider and clearing out sump and collecting the odd battered coins lol. even if the front bearing gets stuck,they all easy to do just hope ISE will just be as easy.Re: WMA bearing change
tonyclifton wrote:…all bearings changes take me no more than 45 minutes…
😯 Maybe if I had someone to help me… 😯
I remember one time, with the boss, we did a WM in 30 minutes. 😀 One tackled the front, while one did the back.
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someone to help na sod that they just get in the way do them all by myself, mite help that i use a new bearing extractor tool that works very well on all machines. so p**s easy to do. never was had to lay a machine down like some of you had put 8)
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tonyclifton wrote:mite help that i use a new bearing extractor tool that works very well on all machines
45 minutes eh…respect, you’re the man! :worthy:
Got to be that new bearing extractor thingy that helps you then I guess? Could you let us know exactly what the gadget is that you use Tony? 🙂
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yes martin, i re-designed and built a better bearing tool than what is on the market as hotpoint one is unless and mine is pretty cool and made attachments to fit all machines, with out having to buy different ones .
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tonyclifton wrote:yes martin, i re-designed and built a better bearing tool than what is on the market as hotpoint one is unless and mine is pretty cool and made attachments to fit all machines, with out having to buy different ones .
Thought as much 😉
The Hotpoint ‘Little Red Box’ is total tosh (and funny money to buy too 🙁 ) So how about a sneaky peek at your bearing tool* eh?
* No innuendo intended by the way, but the minds of some of our colleagues are questionable sometimes when they read these posts :rotfl:
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tonyclifton wrote: never was had to lay a machine down like some of you had put 8)
Edited by Kevin,What, even the old indesits with the enamel tub and centre bearing hub? I always found that if I didn’t lay them on their front before re-assembly the weight of the backplate would distort the tub seal and the machine would leak
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