Not siding with anyone, but John does have a point with plastic outer tubs vs porcelain on steel outer tubs. I’ve dealt with rust issues on my Whirlpool almost 3 years ago, ended up having to have the outer tub welded with rust holes that developed. Whirlpool did use plastic outer tubs on the belt drive machines in the 1970’s for a brief time but decided to go back to metal outer tubs since the plastic in the 70’s was more expensive than metal do to the oil embargo of 1973.
If the belt drives in the 70’s and 80’s had plastic outer tubs, I’m sure there would still be more of them around since plastic holds up better than metal in some cases, that’s why they went to plastic pumps since the metal ones had a tendency of corroding and causing more trouble than a plastic pump.
If the belt drives in the 70’s and 80’s had plastic outer tubs, I’m sure there would still be more of them around since plastic holds up better than metal in some cases, that’s why they went to plastic pumps since the metal ones had a tendency of corroding and causing more trouble than a plastic pump.