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Thread Number: 40234
/ Tag: Major Appliances
My Whirlpool washer failed to drain |
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| Post# 427131 6/17/2020 at 15:41 (1,420 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
So I was washing a load of sheets a little while ago and when I went to put them in the dryer, I opened the lid of the washer (a classic style Whirlpool from the early 2000s) and found it full of water, having failed to drain on its final spin cycle. Fortunately, I able to just turn the knob clockwise to the next spin cycle and it drained normally. I've never had this happen before and I fully subscribe to the notion that once is an isolated incident, twice is a coincidence and three times is a pattern so until the problem begins to repeat itself, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. That said, it would be nice to have a idea of what caused it.
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| Post# 427132 , Reply# 1 6/17/2020 at 15:46 (1,420 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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| Post# 427138 , Reply# 2 6/17/2020 at 17:39 (1,420 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
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Washer did it last winter. The washer is top fill and it has no agitator in the middle like old ones. This means you can put larger loads in. I put 2 large blankets in the washer and came back a couple hours later. The drum has some sort of track or something that rotates the drum. The weight of the wet blanket knocked it off it's track. I took out the blankets threw them in the tub. I then just used a bucket and a rag. I used the bucket and when i couldn't get any more with the bucket I used the rag. I'd use the rag like a sponge and wrung it out in the water bucket.
With the water and clothes out I put the drum back on its axis. I turned it on for a quick cycle and it worked fine. I threw one blanket in at a time and the washer worked fine. I'm guessing it went off its axis. Les | ||
| Post# 427139 , Reply# 3 6/17/2020 at 17:42 (1,420 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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| Post# 427153 , Reply# 4 6/17/2020 at 21:01 (1,420 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
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| Post# 427172 , Reply# 5 6/18/2020 at 10:20 (1,419 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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It's definitely not a newfangled washer, loaded with self-destructing circuit boards. It's a traditional design with an agitator and electro-mechanical controls. I think the control dial slipping a sprocket is the most plausible explanation. The washer came with the house and I'm guessing it's around 20 years old. Up until yesterday, it had never missed a beat. I would sooner replace the controller on that one than buy one of these modern monstrosities. A ~$100 part that will last a couple of decades vs. a $1,000+ washer that, if I'm lucky, might last five years before it blows an NLA circuit board? That's an absolute no-brainer. I hate living in a disposable society.
The dryer that was with the washer when I moved in was a Kenmore from probably the mid-'70s and was on its last legs. Shortly after I moved in, I replaced it with a second hand Roper by Whirlpool dryer, about the same age as the washer, for which I paid $50 or $60. I gave it a full overhaul last fall, which is copiously documented in an earlier thread, and I still have less than $100 invested in it. | ||
Post# 427173 , Reply# 6 6/18/2020 at 10:44 (1,419 days old) by gottahaveahoove  (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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The same thing happened to my Maytag | ||
| Post# 427178 , Reply# 7 6/18/2020 at 11:36 (1,419 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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Post# 427180 , Reply# 8 6/18/2020 at 11:57 (1,419 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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It took my repairman | ||
| Post# 427249 , Reply# 11 6/18/2020 at 23:30 (1,419 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA) | ||
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| Post# 427294 , Reply# 12 6/19/2020 at 13:05 (1,418 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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| Post# 427428 , Reply# 13 6/20/2020 at 18:23 (1,417 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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So I washed two loads of laundry today and the machine did just fine except that it went straight into the 'Extra Rinse' cycle both times. At least it didn't shut off with a full tub again.
So, if you're counting, that makes one load where it failed to drain and three where it went into an 'Extra Rinse' cycle. I've always heard that once is an isolated incident, twice is a coincidence, and three times becomes a pattern. For the cost of repairing it, I think it's a pattern I can live with for now so I'm just going to let it ride until such time as it gets worse or fails altogether. | ||
| Post# 427512 , Reply# 16 6/22/2020 at 08:35 (1,415 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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The last three loads I washed, it skipped over the "Off" position at the end of the regular wash cycle and went straight into the "Extra Rinse". When it was full of water, it was at the "Off" position at the end of the regular wash, which it now skips over. I manually turned the knob past that "Off" position and restarted the machine at the "Spin" portion of the "Extra Rinse".
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