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Corrosion In Front Load Washers To combo52 Thank you for your input. I found an owners manual for a Bosch Axxis on the web. At the beginning of that manual it stated that the use of chlorine bleach could result in the production of poisonous gas, I presume they mean chlorine. A nephew of mine...

Well I see combo52 is attempting to perpetuate his, in my mind, false ideas again. Thank you sudsmaster for the excerpt from the Bosch manual. Incidentally I tried pouring chlorine bleach straight from the bottle onto the old stainless steel drum from my old Frigidaire built Kenmore, it didn’t...

Corrosion Sarah, One thing to remember, particularly should you be using a front load washer, is that almost all laundry aids can, should the required concentration be reached, damage aluminium, the spiders in the front load machines are made of aluminium. Should you wish to see what has...

Bearing And Seal Failures To Jetcone Thank you very much for your input. I had wondered when/if anyone would raise the two points you brought forward in you first paragraph. ‘Stress corrosion’ is. Or was until I retired, I little understood phenomenon. I was very much more involved with steel...

Bearings To cfz2882 Thank you for the update I had not realised that. Something is causing these bearings to fail and it is definitely not all seal failures, reference the second machine I dismantled. The bearings removed from both the subject machines had ‘China’ in raised letters on the...

Apology To rohic Thank you for your comment. Believe me I am learning. Please accept my apologies for any insult you may perceive I have given you, I can only say it was not my intention. Should I have been living in Australia I would, no doubt, have been happy to receive and heed your advice...

To surgilator. As I said to combo52 we both live in free countries and are fortunate enough to be able to express our views even though they, quite obviously, differ. I am pleased that at least you agree that bleach could cause a problem if it was present in sufficient concentration. Is this...

Bearing And Seal Failure To combo 52 ‘98% of the time the seal is the cause of the bearing failure’. Interesting, where does this come from? Who or what organised and/or verified this figure? How was the actual cause of failure determined (this I would really like to know when both are...

New Washer Not Fitting Old Dryer To Passatdoc, I do not know if what you are describing is deliberate ploy by the manufacturers to sell more machines or not, but it certainly seems to be a possibility. A possible way round it is if:- 1 There is sufficient room in the ‘laundry closet’ or...

Good News To rohic Glad you have all positive stories. If it works for you, I say keep it going that way; never mind what I or anyone else says. Good Luck Regards

bearings To cfz2882 Thanks for the input re the bearings. I once saw a post where the writer claimed that Frigidaire/Electrolux actually put out a bearing/seal kit. Now should this be correct it means Sears are not being quite ‘upfront’ when they say the bearings and seal are not available...

Seal And Bearing Failure To hoover1100 Whilst I am not familiar with machines in the UK, other than as detailed above, and I do not think that really counts for very much. I would query the statement that it is the seal failure causing the bearing failure, I believe it is the other way round...

Spider Corrosion To combo52 I am sorry but I just cannot agree that the corrosion on ‘my’ spiders is due to hard water build up. For it to be the ‘scum’ it would be relatively easy to remove, the deposits on my spider were most definitely not and I have never seen a scum build up like that...

My Mistake To Hoover 1100 Thanks for picking that one up it should be Hotpoint Aquarius, my apoligies. I don't know what my sister was or was not doing only that she told me she had dumped it because of 'the smell'.

Corrosion and mould Hi Mike, I see from your profile that your Gran had a Creda Debonaire spin dryer; my parents had one of those. Wrestling that thing was good training for trying to bring down the opposition fly half on a wet Saturday afternoons. By golly they did get the clothes dry though...

Insight To The Future? To supremewhirpol, I agree, where are the ‘GREENS’ when you need them? This is not environmentally friendly. Whole back ends just because the bearings have gone. Basket and spider together because they are not available separately when only the spider is gone. Add in the...

Relative, But Only Just To hoover 1100 I was over to the UK earlier this year. My parent’s, just under 4 years old; Hotpoint Oasis had recently had its bearings renewed. There is no bleach dispenser drawer, or anything similar, on this machine and the instruction sheet does not mention bleach...

Corrosion And Mould To ronic That would be a start but it will not get rid of the corrosion completely neither will it get rid of any of the foul smells. To get rid of the corrosion the spider needs to be made of, or coated with material(s), which will resist the possible corrosion effects of...

Spider Corrosion By Laundry Aids To combo52 I have no intention of tearing down either of my two washers whilst they are still working satisfactorily. I will wait for the first sign of bearing rumble; it is a pity the bearing housing is not accessible to a stethoscope, or I might catch it a...

Corrosion And Mold To laundress. My theory only holds when a washer is allowed to dry out so that the concentration of the damageing chemicals reach a pH value above about 8.0. Most comercial washers I do not think dry out often enough to cause these types of problems.