I sabataged moms '63 Frigidaire washer(in '67)

[spinmon]

I loved washers & really wanted dad to get a new '67 Lady Kenmore,but the '63 Frig was running fine.(I did the wash in our house).So I filled the Frg tub.Spun out water,shut off as soon as tub empty,refilled tub & set to spin with outer tub already full!The poor Imperial struggled with water sloshing/bogging main tub trying to spin out more water.It did quit running w/some electrical smell! Later when pop got home from work I told him the washer sounded weird & quit. We tried it,did'nt run.Got the LK!(white). Several months later I plugged in the Frig & it seemed to run fine! I feel bad now for abusing the Frg, but I sure loved that Kenmore,though it did suds lock easy,& did'nt rince OR spin as good as the Frg.The LK had Roto-Flex,Blch,Sftnr,& dry deterg dispensers,3 wash spds AND WOOH-WOOH-WOOH!Very cool machine!

 

[toggleswitch]

TE HE HE HE.

I admit I killed an old 50's Kelvinator single door fridge that was in the basement (a hand-me-down from mom's aunt when she bought an Amana side-by side unit in the 70's) so that the parental units would get a frost-free model. They accepted a used one for the basement, but had no intention of buying one :-(

ye old nail-in-the-freezer-tube trick, followed by epoxy glue.

OK 'fess up!

Who else has done naughty and or mischievious acts to get a better appliance? After seven years the statute of limitations has kicked in, and no one can prosecute you!

 

[appnut]

I helped our 64 Norge Dispensomat have an premature end of life in 1970. I made it do non neutral drains from near tull tub o water. It would trip the motor's overheat switch. I know it helped it die an early death. And that was after it was out for repair (of the house) for about 3 weeks in 1967 or 1968. My mom's first matched set, she wasn't gonna get rid of it that easily. But when it smoke-filled the room in 1970, that was it.

 

[nickuk]

Ah, yes. I can't believe I'm sharing this on the net....... When I was a lad of maybe 9 or 10 I decided to see how our Hoover FL would cope with an unbalanced load. So I tied my parents' double bedding set into a big ball and stuffed it in to wash. To cut a long story short, on the first spin cycle the machine just literally exploded, drum came off all it's supports, heater smashed up, water pouring over motor - crash, bang, it was a fairly quick (but painful) death.

I also helped a Zanussi washer-dryer to an early grave in the nineties, but by I'm too ashamed to talk about it as I was in my teens!

Yeah, I feel bad about it now. Really bad. I think when you are a child you don't understand the value of money and how everything you own is worked hard for.

I also had major issues with my parents for their continued lack of support, judgement, sarcasm and laughter towards my love of washers. Nowadays that wouldn't justify my actions but as a kid it kind of did.

Nick

 

[saltysam]

LMAO

Hey there Spinmon! St. Louis here too. I can't remember ever abusing any appliances way back when I was a kid, mainly because I wasn't allowed to touch any of them. My mom would have killed someone if something happened to her '67 Frigidaire washer. She loved that thing. About the only appliance I was allowed to touch was the Electrolux vacuum and that was put in my hand every other day. (my mom totally anal about a clean house) LOL

 

[toggleswitch]

He's as pure as the driven snow.

~crash, bang, it was a fairly quick (but painful) death.

Nick:
Did you get punished for this, or were you able to untie the load and feign innocence?

If it were me, my rump would still have scars from the paddling/spanking/belting.

BTW my parents often threatend to send me away to military school. My response "yes, please do". An all-boy boarding school? 'nuff said. *LOL*

 

[gadgetgary]

And I am sure the policy there was....

Don't Ask....Don't Tell!

 

[aquarius1984]

I always knew in my blood Candy were S***e! LOL

Does sticking a screw driver in a 3 week old washer count?

The Candy Domino 4 we had had a special engineer come out to it (me) to fix the control panel by ramming a flat blade in between the control buttons...... is a painful memory and not one I want to go into why I did it but my parents especially my Dad reminds me of it whenever I get something wrong LOL

Apperently I was always a rebel...... hmmmm

Nick

 

[glamwales]

Guilty too

Turned dial 360 the wrong way 3 times , on hoover 1400 in 2003

Im just evil heheheheheheheheheheh

 

[mattywashboy]

On our Hoover Ecologic 1100 there was a little plastic screen that covered the letters on the timer, it had a little arrow on it.
One time i decided to wipe it coz it a bit smudged, it ended up breaking and going down inside the front of the controls. Mum went mad, it was kinda hard to tell which letter it was on so mum had to guess wether it was on E (the only one she used) or D. Dad wasn't impressed either, starting up a whole load of ridicule and looks of disappointment at my strange obsession with the washer. This is coming from a man who collects toy cars, like kids toy cars *sheesh*.
Oh well, thats how the hoover spent its last year, screenless lol. Looked kinda naked lol.
Oh and i broke my nans hoover washer as well, i kept playing with the timer in mid cycle and eventually it lost the ability to advance on its own so i had to move it along through the cycle. I loved how you clicked once for an 800 spin then you had to click again for it to go up to 1100 lol

Moral of story- don't touch ANYTHING

God i'm such a little destroyer lol.
Matt

 

[rinso]

I didn't sabotage any appliances while growing up, but car mufflers were a different story. I used to love the deep chug-a-chug sound of powerful V-8 engines with dual exhausts in the 50's and 60's.

I would tighten the spring on the manifold heat valve so that it didn't open. This caused the sound deadning innards of the muffler of the exhaust system on the heat valve side to quickly corrode due to a low ratio of normally fast-moving exhaust gas and heat, to corrosive exhaust acids. I'd give it about 4 months, then set the spring back to normal. By this time, we had a family sedan with a sweet performance muffler sound, and no dangerous holes in the muffler.

 

[spinmon]

more bad Bill

I also would see how much unbalance the Frigidaire would take. I put full 1 gallon Clorox bleach bottle in empty tub & put 'er on spin!Quite a noise,glad bottle held up!Also would purposely UNbalance load with 'walking-washer',HORRIBLE noise results.But the Imperial worked on through that abuse. I had weird fun as a kid,did'nt I?

 

[timon90]

Ohh.....

I've been really evil with many machines....maybe too many! Remember one machine really much: It was a Candy Domino4 D4.82x I was going to give some torture. I took off the door, and putted in a stick in the doorlock, so it could run without door. When it had come up to 800rpm, I throwed a ca 20cm stone into the drum! It said just: BANG! And then it was loudless The stone had smashed the drum so hard, so it stopped before a second had gone. I did almost the same with a Zanussi ZF810C, but then I used the long stone on the top of the Candy on the pic under here. As you can see, it was'nt much left when I was done with it....

 

[spinmon]

timon90...YIIIIKKKKEEESSSS !!!!

Bro,you cracked me up with that story AND PIC!!!!Made my 'evil laugh' come out as if I'D thrown the stone!!!

 

[timon90]

Hehe

Hehe.... I had some vids from this episode, but cant find them...but I if I find them, I'll share them on Youtube... I've also smashed up a Microwave! Me and a friend putted almost everything in it! It finally gave up when the door was just hanging in one hinge....I'll upload vids of that on youtube, but thats early in the process, så it is not so damaged. Havent vids of it when it was "done" sorry

 

[nmaineman36]

This is a great thread! I too was tired of the ol Speed Queen that my mom had. I took the front panel off it and took a screwdriver and a hammer and put the flat part of the screwdriver to the transmission and gave it a good whack right in the middle. Took a knife to the tub boot and cut it up some. Nothing happened for a few months. I was kinda mad but figured that I couldnt do anything else to it without getting caught or killed by my dad. Then one day when I was doing a load of darks I heard this ungodly squeel. The transmission cracked in half...right where I whacked it. Green goo all over the floor and man there was alot of it. That led to a new WASHER...the Maytag A510..that is still running. A few months later the dryer went to heaven and we got a Maytag DE710. And that is still alive and kicking.

 

[frigilux]

You were all much better at washer murder than I was. I tried to shorten the life of our just-won't-die 1960 Kenmore Model 80, but the blasted thing had nine lives. I finally got rid of it in 1984 (or was it '85?) when I bought a new large-capacity winged Surgilator Whirlpool after my Mom passed away.

Now I wish I had that 1960 back; It was a cool machine with the toggle (Hi, Togs!) pushbuttons and rapid-advance timer...

 

[laundramatt]

As a young boy, I used to love to play with the water and clothes as they were being washed. But my mother would always start with very hot water washes in the Whirlpool for the sheets. So, the night before Monday after everyone had gone to bed, I would sneak downstairs into the basement and lower the water temperature on the hot water tank. Then, early in the morning before she started the laundry, I would go back downstairs and put the thermostat back up to high. It worked great, the hottest water she could get was warm, and no one ever caught on to what I was doing. She would complain to my dad, but he could never figure out why only on Monday morning the hot water was at best warm. ^^

 

[dubstar85]

Tee hee hee

I was talking to my mum and unloading the washing machine when i was about 11 or so, it was an indesit omega 1296... the one with the squarish door and all the buttons.

She said something and i turned around and leaned on the door for support and it fell off... oops. Mum just laughed and that was that. For the next 6 years or so we had washing machine with its own washing basket!