a question regarding late 1980's Maytag washers

[tbolt25]

I've noticed on the mid to late 1980's Maytag washers (with orbital-drive transmissions) when you tip the tub far enough at an angle-the metal tub ring rail guard will strike the washer top metal flange-metal-to-metal! Now I've seen many other washers do this, plastic-to-metal, but metal-to-metal you would think during a very unbalanced load, the washer part(s) would get bent. The older helical drive Maytags didn't have this issue, the only thing that struck their top flange was that black off-balance switch tripper thing-but a METAL tub ring rail striking the metal top washer flange? Could someone please explain this phenomena to me?

 

[llmaytag]

Responses

No responses yet, eh? Perhaps the tub rarely got off-balance enough for that to happen.

 

[iheartmaytag]

The one I have is a mid 90's with orbital tranny. I have a plastic ring around the top of the tub.
It ever so rarely goes off balance, and if it does the off balance switch shuts it down immediately.

 

[llmaytag]

Maytag Spin

The two Maytags I had, which I wish I still had, had great smooth and quiet spins, much better than my confounded Whirlpool direct drive.

 

[gansky1]

Doc, it hurts when I do this... Then don't do that.

Perhaps the top of the tub needs to be adjusted. It's not supposed to hit the top that way. The off-balance trip lever should shut the machine down before this ever happens in day-to-day normal use.