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With the pump back out of the 705, and the impeller’s housing unscrewed off the end of the motor, this photo of the pump-motor’s underside illustrates graphically that the leak had obviously been occurring for quite some time:

But once the 175’s pump had been installed in the 705, and “acceptance trials” were commenced, it quickly became apparent that my 175’s pump had secretly been suffering from a slow leak itself all along:

So here are the two pumps sitting side by side:

Well, the obvious way forward was to swap over the pumps between the two machines. They are undone with a 10mm socket from underneath:

To those forumites among you who are less cavalier and desperate than myself, the moist yellow stain at the bottom of the 705’s outer drum in this next photo might be the cause of considerable leak-related anxiety. But to me, it was merely very-satisfying confirmation of Mayfan’s generous use of...

Being a tinkerer at heart, it has always seemed to me that when faced with the need to replace a machine of any type (ie. washing machine, lawnmower, table-saw, etc), then if the original machine had proven itself to be basically reliable, it makes good sense to procure another working version...

Hello Folks, Okay… I freely admit now that it wasn’t entirely clever after all to pour about 1kg (ie. 2.2lbs) of Rust & Stain Cleaning crystals (aka Oxalic Acid) into the enamelled steel bowl of my trusty old Simpson 175 Top Loader a few Saturdays ago, in an effort to remove some particularly...

Hello Matty over yonder - Wow, that agitator has really got some arc and speed to it - that's for sure; a very different action to the Simpson indeed. The machine in general definitely looks like Serious Kit. I will certainly not neglect to look into the brand and series further if the need...

I hear you Steve - Jap stuff in general has been very good for several decades, except maybe not quite as good as usual right now, since they've started getting a lot of things made offshore for them in SE-Asia. But everyone's doing that now, hey... However, I'm inclined to think that the ideal...

Gotcha on all that, Gizmo, and Many Thanks for the reply. Just to elaborate a little further for the sake of all who have kindly responded, I do actually have a pristine US-made GE up my sleeve, but it's simply too wide to fit in to the niche in the corner of the laundry between the wall and...

Roger on that Nick. I'll keep the radar switched on for any threads that go through here on them... Many Thanks again, WishyWashy.

Thanks very much Steve, Nathan, and Whirly for the pleasant surprise this morning of 3 useful replies. There's some really "good oil" amongst your suggestions, so I'll start processing your collective thoughts at this end. Coincidentally enough Steve, I happened to stumble across a video...

Hello Gents, After a very foolish mishap wherein I managed to damage the enamel coating on the wash-bowl of my trusty old Simpson 175, I'm now on the hunt for a 2nd-hand replacement daily-workhorse. And I think that my best first step would be to sound out the opinions of as many of the fellow...

Good Afternoon Folks, Here's one for the Simpson aficionados amongst you: Can anyone kindly tell me what other models Simpson made (or anyone else for that matter) that featured the exact same wash-bowl as the 175? Something with a stainless bowl would be okay (even though the 175 itself...

By way of an update Gents, I got through on the phone yesterday to a very helpful technical chap at Nulon (an Australian-based motor-oil manufacturer), in order to ask whether the particular grease they sell was safe to use on rubber. His reply was that it was mainly just natural types of rubber...

Thanks again Matthew, and roger on all of that. Carbon hey? Yes, makes sense... I'll certainly look out for such surfaces when I get around to pulling the thing apart. It's not easy to get a really good look at the Resilient Bearing close up, because by this stage of the machine's life, the...

Hello Gents, and thank-you for the replies... Matthew - The trouble is (at least as far as I can see), it wont be very easy to stop the grease from squeezing out onto the surrounding rubber surfaces. This is because the upper surface of the Resilient Bearing is hidden from view by the Spin Can...

Good Evening Folks, and friendly regards to all! This afternoon I decided to give my T1302 a little long-overdue exercise, during the course of which it decided to screech its head off at me during the spin-cycle... This is apparently a fairly common predicament with these machines, and...

Dear Gents, Thanks CrawfordC for that link. They're "Blue Spots" alright, and I might well send the chap an email, but it certainly appears that he doesn't ship down this way normally. He could also be "out" of them too, because they don't always update their websites when they are. He takes...

Good Morning to all and sundry! Just wondering whether any of the assorted Twin Tub devotees on the Forum have had any recent luck sourcing Pump Belts of the "Blue Spot" type for your Hoover Twin Tubs from down here in Australia? Or perhaps instead from somebody abroad who is happy to ship down...