Way out of balance.

[toggleswitch]

(Besides the holy-roller from the other day...)

My GE FF from circa '91, blessed me with a hugely unbalanced load. Four same-size bed sheets and four pillow cases.

EEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRr.

There are times when it is tempting to abandon my baby here when I move out. Do you think the appliance police would ever catch me?

 

[appnut]

Odd, you musta loaded it strange. I use to put 2 sets of queen size bed sheets in a load of sheets in my 1978 FF and never once had an oob prob. And I dind't wash them for 18 minutes, more like 10 at most.

 

[toggleswitch]

I'm thinking: It's hard to load those items wrong.

There are grease stains (black, so don't say what you are thinking) all over a batch of whites that ran through that machine last. Sounds like my tranny is leaking fluids. (She may need a doctor).

*SIGH*

Look like an overhaul is needed. I pulled my agitator and did not find any grease to speak of on the drive shaft. Also under the plastic cover (bolt-cap), nuttin.

 

[toggleswitch]

Deju Vu.

It was fairly sudsy.

When mom's 70's Norge popped an oil leak into the tub, you couldn't get a head of suds, no way no how.

 

[kenmore1978]

moving

I'm surprised you're thinking of moving since you seeem to have finally gotten your house configured just the way you like it.

 

[askomiele]

Sheets are horrible to wash!! But I figured out how to load them in a frontloader without having them tangled!! Just like bendix described in a manual. Shake them open, take them tentwise an put them over your arm. The place them in the drum!! No tangling! But I have no experience with toploaders so I don't no what you've done wrong.

 

[toggleswitch]

Divorce in process

Jaune:

Sometimes life takes you where IT wants to go.

 

[toggleswitch]

Blame the victim..........

But I have no experience with toploaders so I don't no what you've done wrong.

Neither do I - Probably nothing. LOL ROFL LMAO

I did the "four-corners" routine, and have been doing it for decades B4 I knew Frigidaire had documented it as a recommendation.

 

[sudsmaster]

"Shake them open, take them tentwise an put them over your arm."

Ah, a new, practical use for making a tent. ;-)

 

[angus]

Also remember the curved spiral ramp activators in later GE's did tend to move the clothes around more so it is possible that even a carefully loaded wash could go out of balance. Used to happen to me all the time. Yet for all the years I used the straight vane activator, the clothes moved during the wash, but not round and round, so I had many fewer out of balance loads.

 

[toggleswitch]

Good to know.

TYVM

a good friend tells me that a rubber piece form near the top of the drive-shaft may have fallen into the machine and disintegrated. Must research

 

[appnut]

Are you sure the OOB isn't because the user is so unbalanced? LOL

Who loves ya Stevey

 

[toggleswitch]

WELL I NEVER..on a Sunday.

LOL ROFL LMAO.

 

[cleanteamofny]

Bob you are a trip and I like!

LOL

 

[toggleswitch]

OOB? Me?

Nah. I'm just bubbly and exhuberant.