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Re: Hoover WDM130 overfilling

Thanks! The way I did it was just visually – I decided that the water level should never rise up into the pressure chamber, but as I added water to the drum, it did start to go up. I pulled the hose out and lo and behold, a little hole where it’s chaffed behind the soap drawer! How does it feel to be right all the time?

I replaced it with some clear tubing that’s a bit of a tighter fit and feels tougher. I didn’t have time to fully test it, but it’s certainly not overfilling now. What it did do, which worried me a bit, was turn on the water flowat the same time as pumping out water after a speedwash, which confused me a bit, but I’ll confirm the problem before getting too worried.

Thanks again,

John

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Re: Hoover WDM130 overfilling

Penguin45 wrote:
What our poster needs to do is use something like a golf tee to plug the hose and wait. A pin hole can take a few minutes to actually depressurise the system. The machine will then “refill”. By the time the system lets go for the 3rd time, there will be no water left to displace in the pressure chamber, and it’ll keep on filling………
Penguin45.

COnsistent with what you’re saying, the level of water in the pressure chamber did rise to the top before the third filling stage arose. Not sure how you mean to plug the pressurised tube with a golf tee – could you explain which end of the tube I would disconnect and how I would pressurize it?

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Re: Hoover WDM130 overfilling

OK, I’ll investigate further. I’ll use the tongue method to seal the pressurized tube! Would a leak cause the “third stage” problem I’m having though?

Incidentally, power off, of course, but isn’t there a big charge left in the supressor? How does one get rid of that?

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