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Spider Corrosion By Laundry Aids To sudsman By now I hope you realise just how ridiculous the first sentence of your post is. Should raw bleach as you put it, I used a 5% solution, as I said straight from the bottle, damage anything, it would damage any container it was put in, as this is...

To Surgilator I quite agree with you. Your story about the machines at the medical facility only goes to add credence to my theory. They will rarely, if ever dry out, therefore the concentration of bleach and other impurities will rarely, if ever, reach a level where corrosion can occur...

Spider Corrosion By Bleach To Combo52 We both live in free countries so you are entitled to your views the same as I am entitled to mine. Attached is a photograph of the spider removed from my 7.5-year-old Frigidaire built Kenmore machine showing what one drop of bleach, straight from the...

Dave first. Not entirely true, a rough surface and corrosion build up will, in my opinion, assist the initial water retention at the end of the last spin cycle. The spider in the second picture had very little corrosion, which actually surprised me. However the owner, one of my sisters’-in-law’...

Spider Corrosion By Laundry Aids I have written to Frigidaire/Electrolux, Sears/Kenmore, Speed Queen and Whirlpool concerning these corrosion issues. Frigidaire and Sears have responded in the vein ‘thank you we will pass it on, now go away’ I can post their exact responses if required but I do...

Corrosion by 'Bleach' I forwarded the following email to 'The Clorox Company' a manufacturer of laundry bleach 'The pH of your 'bleaches' seems to be anywhere up to about 11.0. It is a well-known and well-established fact that aluminium is corroded when immersed in an aqueous solution with a...

Many posts on many sites claim that the corrosion of the spiders is due to galvanic action. I do not agree, I believe it is primarily chemical corrosion. Should the corrosion have been galvanic between the stainless steel drum and the aluminium spider the majority of the corrosion would have...