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Re: My Hoover Optima has eaten my wife’s bra!!
Jim,
No I guess the bra wire has been broken by the drum. The piece I have extracted is about 3-4 inches long – which probably leave about 6-7 inches on the remaining piece which is still fouling the drum.
From the diagram it looks like there is a backplate behind the seal onto which the stud (which takes the securing nut – which I extracted first) is welded. Clearly I have extracted the heater up to the middle “u” section. I can see the seal but not the backplate. Does that mean that the backplate is somehow “inside” the aperture? and if so I guess I need to dislodge the seal then wiggle the backplate to draw it through??
One more prompt please before I attack it again.
Thanks for being there
paulus
Re: My Hoover Optima has eaten my wife’s bra!!
Sump hose off – a piece of the wire now extracted – but not the offending piece. I am trying to remove the heater element – come out about 7 inches but no further. Problem is the seal is still in place. This is proving very difficult to lift because it is recessed. Is this sucker glued on? Should I just hack it off and get a new heater (~£22) or is there a “trick of the trade”.
paulus
Re: My Hoover Optima has eaten my wife’s bra!!
Thanks Jim,
I’ll go down the first two routes – if that fails I will look into the cost of a new heater before removing that.
Excellent advice, thanks again.
paulus
Re: My Hoover Optima has eaten my wife’s bra!!
iadom
Thanks for the reply. Working backwards on your tips:
I have had the torch in – I found one damaged hole (presumably where it escaped) but cannot see where the wire is – certainly not aligned with a hole – but that would be very fortunate. Also I cannot see whether the wire is at the bottom (where I would expect), or anywhere else around the drum.
The sump hose would be good – but presumably the wire would need to be at the bottom first, and close to the sump hole.
If the heater has to be removed what is the difficulty in replacing it?
Finally, if all of these fail – what is left?
And finally-finally, the bra in question is labelled as machine washable (altho the point about a pillowcase is well made) and my wife has been washing her bras this way for 25 years – without such a feak accident. The best suggestion I can give her is to join womens lib! However, in the mean time I need to get this resolved for the sake of our family of five rapidly running out of clean clothes!
paulus
