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Re: Getting the brushes out of a Bosch WFL2260
The new brushes arrived promptly this morning – excellent service! Thanks for the advice – you’re absolutely right; I wouldn’t have been able to get the new brushes inserted with the motor still fitted (well, maybe in a hundred years…!) So I followed your advice and took the motor out, and even then it was really quite a fiddle!
I was a bit concerned that the connector plate of the new brushes was a bit narrower – and had slightly larger cutout slots – than on the original brushes. It made them a much sloppier fit in the retaining collar, and I had to bend the lugs in slighly to make sure the connector couldn’t flip out (with the spring pressure).
Anyway, got it all back together and it works (gets me “Brownie points” with ‘er indoors !) so thanks again for your help.
Re: Getting the brushes out of a Bosch WFL2260
Ah! I get it – the taper on the brushes is because they’re offset on the motor shaft! Thanks, Dave (and Greg!) – your help is much appreciated. Just one more question, if I may – would you usually try to replace the brushes without removing the motor (bit of a fiddle, and I haven’t tackled the harder bit – putting the new ones back – yet!) or would you remove the motor to do it? I thought of removing the motor (would make fitting the brushes easier, and I would have tried to clean off some of the old carbon dust which I’ve just ignored) but it would have been a bit more work and I would have had to re-tension the belt… Which way is preferable, would you say (or is it just a case of “six of one and half a dozen of the other”?) Thanks again…
Re: Getting the brushes out of a Bosch WFL2260
Please forgive me for “piggy-backing” on this topic, but I have a related question I’d be grateful for help with. I’ve mamged to remove the brushes, without removing the motor, on our Bosch WFD2460GB/01, and ordered replacements (from UKWhitegoods!). I appreciate the need to ensure the replacement brushes are fitted with the taper in the direction of motion of the motor shaft (as per the previous post). What I’m not sure of is: does the drum (viewed from the front, through the observation glass) rotate clockwise or anti-clockwise in use? (Guess who doesn’t usually do the washing!?) I did ask my wife, who says she’s never noticed… 🙄
Please be assured I am a qualified electrical/ electronic engineer – just not usually working on domestic appliances (although I have in the past, from time to time).
Thanks in anticipation.
