I have finally finished the tub change on my Rapidry 1000. It's been out of service for about two months. First of all I want to say thank you to all who have provided me assistance with this. Bob Orear, who has transported several machines for me and who brought up the donor machine from SC. Philippe, who donated the donor machine. Mark Harman, for early advice on how to handle the project. Steve Riley, your advice has helped me learn and kept me from foolish mistakes. Hans Craig, for donating other machines that will be shown in this thread. Robert Seger, for providing this website full of knowledge, without this site none of the machines I have would have been possible. Finally, my Dad who worked a great magic on rusty parts yeserday. We found a small tear in the water bellows that was on the machine and this contributed to a great amount of rust to be battled. Eventually all those rusty parts became putty in his hands. I feel a great sense of satisfaction in the completion of this project and I'm very happy. It was worth the labor, but I don't want to wrestle with putting on one of those damn water bellows anytime soon.
To recap the project, the original problem was a terrible vibration in Rapidry and very poor balancing. The culprit, a leaky tub plug on the original tub had allowed the cast iron granules to clump together. Here is a picture of the bad old, nasty tub
To recap the project, the original problem was a terrible vibration in Rapidry and very poor balancing. The culprit, a leaky tub plug on the original tub had allowed the cast iron granules to clump together. Here is a picture of the bad old, nasty tub
