Hotpoint Liberator Dryer 1701 re-build

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If you remember the heater plate has been damaged by the drum rubbing on poor bearings.

To strengthen the weak lower rim I soldered a steel band in place, worked a treat and the solder should not melt under normal conditions.

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Fitted the wheels and feet to the base plate, I no it’s the wrong shade of blue, nothing I can do about it now.

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Heater plate fitted, fixings from both sides, at this point I was at my whit’s end and the hammer almost came out.

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Right the fun part, placed the dryer face down on some cardboard to protect the front panel. Insert the five bearing strips into the heater plate.

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Remove all the base plate fixings so the sides splay out and drop the drum in.

Using your hand to slid the drum rim into the new bearings.

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Tip the machine into it’s back, on the cardboard and fit the rear bearing plate, this pulls it all together.

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Control panel in place, I have not re-fixed the decorative strip yet I will do that when I have new buttons fitted.

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I think we are done; well I am certainly done, knackered and ready for a big drink of something nice.

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Plugged her in and she roared into action, very reasonable amount of air movement though I have some sealing work yet to carry out.

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Something Borrowed Something BLUE

That is a really nice shade of blue Lee but yes it might need CHANGING a tad :-)

And top marks for sorting out the bearing support ring its a pity some people would just run items into the ground rather than get is serviced, this must have been grinding for ages

Patience is all with jobs like this, they can drive you to DESTRUCTION and HARRY the HAMMER gets twitchy..........good for you for holding back, it brings back memories of my days in my garage spitting feathers etc.

But as we are here now what a great job you have done and yes they will be a perfect pair.

A very productive weekend for you, this means you can go into work smiling :-)))

As shown by the pictures these are machines built to last and thus a pleasure to look at admire...........pity its the start of summer, never mind a few more months and you can do your first load in there :-)

Well done Lee and thanks for having the time to do the pictures for us.

Gary
 
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