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Hilarious and you can hear the dudes laughin in the backgrou

The Haier clone of that machine jerks around in unbalance sometimes, but very fast and furious and then the off-balance switch kicks in.

The Portable Washer Waltz
 
Is that one of those laundry spinners, like a Waschaluder?
We still have the Pakistani model, and it'll do that if it gets unbalanced. There is no off balance switch to it.
Be careful, those things have been known to fly apart from time to time. Just ask the members who have had them!
 
I wonder if it would have continued spinning if it fell on its front like it looked it was going to do.

I have one of those little Haier things I bought for mom's retirement apt, but she could not manage it and sent everything home with me. John and I figured that if you were stuck in an apartment with a GE combo, one of these could extract well enough to almost make the drying time reasonable even if you had to spin the load in two or three batches. I will say that it has a far better wash action than the little GE portables from the 70s since it has a rapidly reversing impeller. I don't think it performs very well if loaded to full capacity.

Three weeks ago, John left a load of jeans washing in that behemoth hybrid Kenpool of his in which he installed a rare high speed spin pulley and from which he removed the Kenmore unbalance switch since Whirlpool never used one. It finished the cycle with the front of the machine facing the wall. We think the hoses sort of constrained and guided its range of travel and prevented damage to the cabinet.
 
"The Jews have Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashannah
The Christians have Easter and Christmas.
The Moslems have Ramadan and KA-Boom!
-Robin Williams comedy routine.

My Pakistani (it's a Moslem country) spinner self-destructed with a loud bomb-like thunderous noise.

Luckily the natural gas line was elseswhere. The water line barely missed getting sliced into two as the thing attempted suicide and threw itself against the wall thinking it was going to go over a cliff or something.
 
Hey I thought it had some good rythyms going there. Infact I KNOW those drum rudiments from some heavy metal song, i just cant place it right now.
 
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