Hoover 3102E Pressure Switch Leak!

[supermaticjames]

Hi all,

My Hoover Single Tub is leaking again, this time from the pressure switch. How can I fix this and are parts still available if required?

Thank's in advance, James.

 

[electron1100]

Pressure Switch

Hello James

Can you give a picture of the pressure switch, maybe it is and ordinary one of the time

Gary

 

[hotpoint95622]

hotpoint 95622

I don’t remember the one we had, having a pressure switch; I can only assume that it was added to later models as a safety measure for the heater to prevent the element working when the tub was empty.

 

[electron1100]

swotifort

Thats what i thought Lee remember them on the twin tubs but not on the single tubs, but as you say maybe a later safety feature.

 

[hotpoint95622]

hotpoint 95622

Hopefully the photos will help figure this one out, be very interesting to see.

Haven’t we all been quite over January.

 

[supermaticjames]

Hi,

Sorry but I am unable to travel to get a pic of the pressure switch but the setup is identical to that on a Hoovermatic. It is situated on the sump hose and it is white with two wires coming out of it at the top.

James.

 

[keymatic3203]

Pressure switch leak.

Hi james well done on those two great machines, I know just the leak you mean, it's the micro switch clipped to the white pressure vessel on the sump pipe between the tub and the pump.

If this is what you mean, disconnect the two wires, and remove the whole thing from the sump hose. the disc with the switch attached is held to the lower part with three spring clips, prize these off, watching they don't fly across the room and it will split into two parts. You will then see the rubber diaphram that pushes against the switch when the level of water is detected. This rubber disc will probably be split, and was available as a spare, so maybe ask your appliance shop.

I have got away with using a disc of rubber cut from an old bike tyre innertube , if you have to try this then you need to put it in under the old diaphram as that has a metal disc on it to press against the switch, then reassemble and it should be water tight, note though that this will have affected the sensitivity of the switch, so instead of switching the heater on once the water is up to the top of the pulsator, it will now need to be nearly full for the heater to operate.

And good news to that you now have the fill/empty hose, so hope you will soon be doing the complete wash, rinse and spin, and with a second single tub you can do a deep conditioner rinse as well, hope this has been some help, sorry it's taken so long to reply.

Mathew

 

[supermaticjames]

Hi Mathew,

That was exactly what Nige told me to do and I performed the surgery yesterday morning by cutting a disc out of an old Marigold glove and placing it under the diaphragm. Upon blowing into it, it didn't leak so I put it back into the machine and filled it up and it worked the very best. I don't think the sensitivity was affected as bad as yours. Later yesterday I did my first wash of 2011 with the two new machines to celebrate and a thread about that and a video will be uploaded tonight. I was so relieved to find no patches underneath the two and the pump seemed to have corrected itself on the spinner after running water through it, a little speck came out of it after using it the previous day. You mentioned my previous Single Tub? That's gone the motor died. These two machines are the only two in my collection until I get "the purple one" and the "digital one" I am unreal happy and I'm still smiling. Videos and picture thread tonight!

James