The Washing Machine Spider FAILED: I Cut Open This Sealed Drum to Show You the Rot!

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• JO

  @JohnGotti__ · 7 months ago (edited)

  You don't need laser to cut them, you can cut them with Dremel or angle grinder below of factory plastic welding, but carefully to not get to drum and damage it. But before you need to put few marks to understand how to put it back and when you finished cut in and repairing you just weld plastic by soldering iron (100watt) with a knife tip. We are doing repair on them 10+ years. Greetings from Ukraine!

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• NA

  @navajojohn9448 · 7 months ago

  Joining aluminum and stainless steel together (often called &quot;koining&quot; or coupling) creates a high risk of<br>galvanic corrosion. When these two dissimilar metals come into contact in the presence of an electrolyte—such as water, salt air, or moisture—the aluminum acts as an anode and corrodes rapidly while the stainless steel acts as a cathode and remains protected.

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• KE

  @kenjarvis8394 · 7 months ago

  I&apos;m a plumber and a trained engineer mate.<br>I&apos;ve just been watching your comments and vids about sealed drums in washing machines.<br>I totally agree with you about the purposely built in obsolescence to these front loader machines by manufacturers.<br>I have over past years taken &apos;splitable&apos; drums apart and renewed back bearings and seals to make a good fix that would probably last the machines years.<br>I was completely disgusted when the mainstream producers started totally sealing the drums to stop separation.<br>To me, it&apos;s just, as I say, built in obsolescence purposely.

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• LA

  @laincis · 7 months ago

  Saving the planet my rear end :-) &nbsp;Keep your old stuff going, that&apos;s what saves resources.

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• JA

  @JaySilva88 · 7 months ago

  You&apos;re the reason I, a person with zero repair experience, replaced the bearings on my Teka washing machine. It has been a great machine and I just could not trust ANY company to buy a new machine from. The repair has been holding strong for the past 7 or so months. After a month had to change the motor carbon brushes, had to solder the leads because they only had the brush itself. Working fine!

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• RA

  @Ray_of_Light62 · 7 months ago

  I repaired washing machines in the late &apos;70s.<br>They had no controller board, but a mechanical programmer with a number of cam wheels - which controlled dozens of leaf switches. The cam wheels where turned by a synchronous AC motor, and the entire unit (the &quot;programmer&quot;) constituted the &quot;brain&quot; of the washing machine. The main motor had no excitation and therefore no graphite brushes. The motor had three windings and a phasing capacitor, so it could do one slow speed clockwise, one slow speed CCW, and one fast speed CCW - for the final centrifugation at 700 or 900 RPM.<br>The heater element, the pressure switch, the thermostats, the water pump, the inlet solenoid valves, etc - are all the same even 50 years later. The drum, the main bearing, the drum and the door gaskets - were all replaceable. <br>Today, I would walk barefoot to Milan if Candy would sell me one of their washing machines from 1975. The one my mom had, I made it last 20 years; I replaced the main bearing once, and the front gasket (from the drum to the door) three times. <br>Thank you for the great video and for your act of disclosure.<br>Greetings from the UK,<br>Anthony

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• AN

  @andylyons553 · 7 months ago

  Aluminium and stainless steel galvanically connected in a water-electrolyt bath like it is present in a washing mashine, will definitely cause the aluminium to rot away. It is an electric element, because the aluminium is far away from the metals in stainless steel on the electrical voltage row. It is planned obsolescense. They know it will fail, because it is physics and the effect is well known for more than 100 years. You are 100% right!

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• MR

  @MrMoss786 · 7 months ago

  Public benefit service man. &nbsp;Thank you for making our lives easier. &nbsp;Life is hard enough.

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• DA

  @danconnolly-stone5506 · 7 months ago

  I love how you realise saving parts from a dead machine will be appreciated by others on the used market❤

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• NA

  @nand2624 · 2 months ago

  I live in Asia and had a bosch series 2 (might also be called Siemens IQ 100).<br>The spider failed today exactly after 5 years (one day shorter). The machine was used 3-4 times a week with soft water and liquid detergent.<br><br>I spent half a day disassembling and prying open the tub. <br>Obsolescence is everywhere, from accessing the internals to the way the motor is attached to the tub.<br>It required every tool I ever owned in the past 10 years. Glad to see that there are people who are selling the spares.<br>The replacement tub costs 80% price I paid for the machine itself.<br>I will repair it no matter what.

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• AL

  @Almostbakerzero · 7 months ago

  Its actually crazy how this is not taught to kids at every school. instead, were being gaslit by forcing paper straws on us or blaming coffee to go disposable cups. Of course &quot;every little helps&quot;, &nbsp;but in reality it doesnt. Throwing away a washing machine 5 years too early means wasting an amount of plastic and energy to produce it that you can never ever in your life make up by not using a straw for your coke or taking coffee from home rather than to-go.

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• FA

  @falknersteffen9651 · 5 months ago

  Wow!!! I&apos;m already working hard with my Miele after 33 years of its lifespan!!! That was still quality in 1992!!! Today I will open it for the first time in its life and reinstall all bearings and wearing parts. And clean it.

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