Well, thanks to our wonderful webmaster, my Unimatic has it's new oil bellow and is running again!!! That new water bellow was a BITCH to get on! Had to let it soak in hot water, then lube it up with some soap then wrestle with it for a good half hour to get it on the cap of a bottle of liquid Tide so it could stretch out over night! Then, I had to wrestle with it some more to get it to FINALLY pop onto the tub lip. THEN I had to wrestle with that GOD DAMN clamp and get it back in place using a mirror, C-clamp, and a pair of needle nose pliers!
Anyway, point is, I got it on and the machine working again, however it has some bugs that I've noticed and want to work out!
First, a few loads after I got it, the timer stopped advancing, I thought the timer motor had gone which wasn't the worst thing in the whole world, I can still use the machine! However, I noticed tonight that during the longer periods of letting it run (the wash which I let go for 8 minutes and the final spin which I let go for 5 minutes) As well as the fills which lasted a little over 5 minutes, it would still advance the timer but only once in the period of time before I needed to advance it... I take it that that means the timer motor is not dead, but merely running quite a bit slower? Is there something I could look at? Perhaps a place that the timer motor just needs a little lubrication? Also, not sure if this has to do with the timer, but every now and then, even when there is nothing else running on the same circuit, it pops the breaker halfway through throwing the water, I'm not using the machine again until I know for sure what is going on!
Second, something is up with the cold water valve... It seems to stick closed fairly easily... When I first turn on the machine, the water coming out is HOT even though I have warm selected, then it cools down to warm after a few seconds. I tend to prefer to do cool rinses vs. warm rinses in this machine since it does a wash and 2 full rinses in warm water, 3 tubs of warm water seems excessive to me, however... A couple seconds after I turn off the hot water, which is through a ball valve, so it only turns 90 degrees to shut off, the cold water snaps down to trickle... It works for a couple seconds at full blast then snaps down to a trickle. When I turn the hot back on, it does the same thing as when I start any other fill, it gets really really hot then cools down to warm after a couple seconds... What is going on?
Anyway, point is, I got it on and the machine working again, however it has some bugs that I've noticed and want to work out!
First, a few loads after I got it, the timer stopped advancing, I thought the timer motor had gone which wasn't the worst thing in the whole world, I can still use the machine! However, I noticed tonight that during the longer periods of letting it run (the wash which I let go for 8 minutes and the final spin which I let go for 5 minutes) As well as the fills which lasted a little over 5 minutes, it would still advance the timer but only once in the period of time before I needed to advance it... I take it that that means the timer motor is not dead, but merely running quite a bit slower? Is there something I could look at? Perhaps a place that the timer motor just needs a little lubrication? Also, not sure if this has to do with the timer, but every now and then, even when there is nothing else running on the same circuit, it pops the breaker halfway through throwing the water, I'm not using the machine again until I know for sure what is going on!
Second, something is up with the cold water valve... It seems to stick closed fairly easily... When I first turn on the machine, the water coming out is HOT even though I have warm selected, then it cools down to warm after a few seconds. I tend to prefer to do cool rinses vs. warm rinses in this machine since it does a wash and 2 full rinses in warm water, 3 tubs of warm water seems excessive to me, however... A couple seconds after I turn off the hot water, which is through a ball valve, so it only turns 90 degrees to shut off, the cold water snaps down to trickle... It works for a couple seconds at full blast then snaps down to a trickle. When I turn the hot back on, it does the same thing as when I start any other fill, it gets really really hot then cools down to warm after a couple seconds... What is going on?
