how do David.
i do indeed have memories of the various pulse spins my machine did, but for all the wrong reasons!
basically it was useless, in fact no, totally incapable of balancing its loads - with quite spectacular and frigtening results.
there was obviously something seriously wrong with it, but i never found time to do anything about it. the only time i took the back off it was to replace the belt.
washing - no problem.
it seemed to me that the pulse spins were just too sharp for the machine to cope with. from a stand it would suddenly swing all of a sudden into a pulse rinse/spin, giving no time for distribution, with the result being that all the clothes would fasten themselves to one side of the drum.
the number of times that i stopped the machine and maually rearranged the clothes, hoping to help it, were quickly lost count of and i just left it to its own devices.
the result was a cocophony of severe, hellishly unbalanced bangings during rinse cycles and the most distressing and frigtening leaps into the kitchen when the spin was reached.
i am not exaggerating the experience -it could be quite terrifying, not knowing whether it was going to severely damage itself or its surroundings.
the machine used to live behing the backdoor, but down its left handside had no unit and only about a third of its depth of wall, before the door frame started, so it had got a place to leap into. had it been tied in by kitchen units probably, over time, it would have pulled the units away from the wall.
as mentioned before, i never investigated why its spins were so alarming and i have cursed pulse spin ever since.
it was bought second hand - whether it had a totally shot suspension or indeed, going from tim hunkins the secret life of programme, whether it even had a concrete block (or whether it was detached), i will never know.
come to think of it, the only reason it didn't continue to walk across the kitchen was because it would always leap to the left and wedge itself between unit and the bit of door frame/wall that there was.
good machine - but fatally flawed (mine was at least!).
paul
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