mark_wpduet
Well-known member
This has been going on
on this forum for over way over a decade. Spider failures on some machines but not others. I honestly have no clue but to come to the conclusion that it IS in fact washing habits. I have no other reason. But I agree the manufacturers should make the spiders with similar metal's to account for durability.
My duet is now going on its 15th YEAR (bought April 2005)
I have never done anything that special. I'm the only one who ever uses the machine. When I wash colors or mixed, I use Hot washes with powder, and just a wee bit of fab softener mixed with distilled white vinegar and I also pour lemon ammonia in the tub when I'm not using LCB
Then with whites, I use powder, LCB,hot washes and NO fabric softener. Leave door cracked and detergent tray open..... Over the years, reading on forums and online and I read horror stories of nasty smells, mold, broken spiders........So what other conclusion can anyone come to? But I'm going to be totally honest and say that no one is more baffled than me that my machine has lasted this long. I would have never thought it would keep chugging along. I think there are a few others who have a similar machine as mine that's even older? But I do know that my machine DOES use aliminum spiders, which id a dissimilar metal just like all the other broken spiders over the years. In fact, I think someone on here had a machine just like mine that had a broken spider a while back.....

on this forum for over way over a decade. Spider failures on some machines but not others. I honestly have no clue but to come to the conclusion that it IS in fact washing habits. I have no other reason. But I agree the manufacturers should make the spiders with similar metal's to account for durability.
My duet is now going on its 15th YEAR (bought April 2005)
I have never done anything that special. I'm the only one who ever uses the machine. When I wash colors or mixed, I use Hot washes with powder, and just a wee bit of fab softener mixed with distilled white vinegar and I also pour lemon ammonia in the tub when I'm not using LCB
Then with whites, I use powder, LCB,hot washes and NO fabric softener. Leave door cracked and detergent tray open..... Over the years, reading on forums and online and I read horror stories of nasty smells, mold, broken spiders........So what other conclusion can anyone come to? But I'm going to be totally honest and say that no one is more baffled than me that my machine has lasted this long. I would have never thought it would keep chugging along. I think there are a few others who have a similar machine as mine that's even older? But I do know that my machine DOES use aliminum spiders, which id a dissimilar metal just like all the other broken spiders over the years. In fact, I think someone on here had a machine just like mine that had a broken spider a while back.....
