Recent content by roperman

Thanks for the replies guys. Pulled the motor off today and both bearings have had it. The rear one is rough as hell, and the front one is noisy. I did find a spare brand new genuine armature that I had bought off ebay a few years back for 99p + £5 P&P so that is going in. I had intended to...

Hi, I've got a Hotpoint WM64 that is sometimes making a really high pitched bearing noise on spin. It sounds higher pitched/faster than the tub bearings which were replaced fairly recently. I'm guessing its the motor bearings that are on their way out. I'll try and get a vid the next time it...

Edit: think the brushes are the earlier black type, and not the newer white ones. Would this cause what is happening?

Brushes have about 1cm left of carbon. Were changed about 12 months ago. Spins fine when I reset the machine. Were cheap ones off ebay though. Think my mum ran it with the brushes worn out before this for a bit though, would armature damage have symptoms like this?

My mum has a Hotpoint WM64 that seems to fail to spin about 1 in 3 times. When it doesn't spin it will just be sat there with the drain pump humming. Every time i've been there to watch it its spun, so I can't tell if its aborted the spin mid way or just not tried. As far as I can tell though...