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Date:
5/20/2012 1:49:21 AM
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RE: laundry machine repair success! sorta..
Doh.. didn't mean to hit post.
Anways.. the asploded part was a transistor, not a resistor. What these parts controlled was a stupid "wax motor" (literally heats up a ball of wax in an enclosure, which expands and pushes a little bar), which was in charge of locking the door. No locked door, no high speed spin. That left the laundry clean, but soaking wet. I replaced the faulty components with beefier ones, and its been trouble free for about 3 years. But then it happened again. Being somewhat lazy (ok.. a lot lazy), I avoided fixing it and been taking my dirty underwear to family and friend's houses. This of course is less than ideal, so I finally decided to do something about it. But this time I decided I would try and take the easy way. I removed the bad components, and simply shorted the contacts on the door lock sensing switch, so as far as the machine was concerned it was always locked. This ended up working fine, and didn't pose any problems given that I conscientiously avoid opening the door and stick my head in while its in super spin mode. There is one slight side effect that I thought might happen, and that's the fact that since it never detects the door unlocked, the cycle doesn't truly end and shut off. So once its done with the final extraction, every 20 seconds or so, it spins several times and pauses again. And it does this seemingly forever until I manually turn it off, or simply just open the door. I guess its a small price to pay in order to never have to fix that particular problem again. Now hopefully the door doesn't swing open and my clothes come flying out with all the force of a steroid-induced Kenny Powers pitch.
