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Re: Hotpoint 9605 Agitator spindle removal

Thanks for all the replies chaps.

Unfortunately the tripod would not budge, even after some serious heating up with the blowlamp and use of a three legged puller: it took a LOT of pressure from the puller before it started to disintegrate wherever I tried to place the jaws, even pulling from the “narrow very bottom” of the tripod. Eventually a leg did snap off the tripod and I couldn’t get hold of another.

My beloved 9605 has now gone to the great scrapyard in the sky 🙁

The motor was at one point making a horrible screeching noise but this was solved by replacing the bearings in the motor fan earlier on.

There was a great deal of exess movement in the spindle and you could feel the bearing grating as you turned the spindle, the motor was beautifully quiet when run without being connected to the gearbox and there was no evidence of water having leaked through the seal into the gearbox.

I was very attached to the 9605 and it washed clothes brilliantly. Very sorry it had to go.

Now have a Hotpoint AQ9D 692 U which is pretty good but I doubt it’ll outlast my old “industrial strength” Hotpoint 9605.

Good to see all the replies and discussion going though – keep it up as I’m sure it will help someone to keep their machine going – maybe then they’ll sell it eventually to me! 🙂

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