We noticed that with the Neptune we bought in 2000. The Crapsman washers we’ve bough since have a 24 minute cycle that I use the most. What I really appreciate in the front loader that I have now is that I can force a drain. I will do that after I’ve done a series of loads in one day and won’t be running it again for a few days. Then I leave the door open overnight. No mold problem. It is hard to fathom the life we had before owning our own washer and dryer. I didn’t mind going to the laundromat long ago, but I did mind my clothing being stolen when I had to step out.
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I have a GE Cafe dual fuel range, circa 2012. How old is yours? I have experienced the ‘set the oven to preheat and it shuts off immediately’ bug, but I have never experienced a completely non responsive panel.
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Well… I jinxed myself by posting this. The transmission in this washer appears to have failed. I checked to see if it was just the “breakaway” coupler, but no… the transmission is locked up.
So today’s task is to take it apart and see about locating a used Whirlpool washer transmission.
For the record it failed on the last load of the day, so all of our clothes are clean. I did have to hand wring out the small load it failed on, but the clock is ticking for me to fix or replace this thing.
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Oh no, I know!
I’m not going to jinx myself by revealing my latest dryer woe until it is fixed!
Good luck!
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I tore it down and its beyond hope. The transmission gears look like hamburger, not to mention some other parts being stuck together. It lived a good life, but its going to the dump tomorrow.
I’ll make a run into Phoenix and hit a couple thrift stores. I do see washers (occasionally) at some Goodwill stores.
After having to purchase a fridge this summer, there is no way we can afford a washer at this point. Until I locate something, we’ll go to a coin-op laundry or hand wash anything needed immediately.
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Damn, Dan, sorry to hear that. But really hand-washing (utility sink or large kitchen sink) isn’t horrible for 2. We did it a fair bit, back when. Wouldn’t want to try it for 6, though. The main issue is getting the wash rung out enough.
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I believe it’s about 12, too, but not positive when we did the remodel. But if you scroll up to my other posts, you’ll see that my problem is that I literally had a bug in there screwing with the contacts.
Thanks… If I don’t find anything at any local thrift shops, I’ll poke around on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace.
What scares me is “bad things” happen in “three’s” First the fridge, now the washer… what’s next??
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In the Army we always said bad stuff came in 3s. But maybe your winds will shift (excerpted lyrics from a popular country song, “When It Rains It Pours”). Kind of nonsensical but a fun song. Best of luck, anyway!
… Then I won a hundred bucks on a scratch-off ticket
I bought two 12-packs and a tank of gas with it
She swore they were a waste of time, oh, but she was wrong
I was caller number five on a radio station
Won a four day, three night beach vacation
Deep sea señorita fishin’ down in Panama
Then I got the last spot in the Hooters’ parking lot
And the waitress left her number on my check with a heart
She picked up on the first ring, when I gave her a call…
… And I ain’t gotta see my ex-future-mother-in-law anymore,…
Oh Lord, when it rains it pours!
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As long as you don’t have diapers to do…
Don’t tempt fate, someone wise said…
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No breakdowns involved thankfully, today I’m getting rid of the hated glass-top electric range that came with my kitchen remodel couple of years ago. I can’t stand the glass top. Every cooking vessel placed on it scratches it. Every morsel of food or drop of liquid dropped on it turns into carbonized steel. Every wipe with even a freshly laundered cloth smears the top of it. We’re joyfully going back to a standard coil burner model that wasn’t available in stainless steel when the remodel happened. Goodbye, dirty scratched-up glass top electric range. You were never wanted and never loved. I am free.
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Friends of mine did the same thing. The new house they’d bought came with a glass-top range & they just replaced it with coil. My condo originally came with a stainless steel coil range. I redid the kitchen 15 yrs later & got a glass top. Hard to clean and keep scratch free. When I replaced it in turn with an induction range the joy of having nothing burn onto the glass was immediate. I use little silicone burner mats too so no more scratching.
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Yay for you!!! There’s a reason for the ‘oldie, but goodie’ mindset.
Our crammed full 9-1/2 year old 'garage' freezer. Time for another purge. Two bags of rhubarb left this week.
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Just an update… Over the weekend, I found a used washer on Craigslist for $50. The guy was real honest about the washer, telling me it leaked when it emptied, but he didn’t want to fool with it or pay for a technician.
I figured it was the discharge hose or the water pump. I went ahead & purchased it, brought it home and hooked it up. I found a small split in the discharge hose where it exits the cabinet. There was enough slack in the hose that I pulled it through, cut it and sleeved it with a piece of old radiator hose. I have no idea why I was saving that old radiator hose, but glad I did. Any who… this was a $0 fix and we have a working washing machine.
OK… I’m ready for the next breakdown/problem.
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Big congrats on your find, and your fix!
Back when car exhaust systems used to rust out every few years I was paycheck-to-check most of the time, and didn’t want to shell out for replacements at Midas or wherever.
The fix - not quite the same but similar to yours - cut off the bottom of a used soup or bean can (depending size of rusted pipe), slice the can up the side and then pop it over the hole like you did, with the slit up the side of the can overlapping itself for a fair seal, but not perfect (4 clamps along the way). But most of the exhaust would go through the muffler. My old Chevy Cavalier had 3 soup cans on it when I gave it to a charity willing to pick it up for parts.
I’ve also scabbed in a couple inches of hard plastic tubing for pinhole leaks in radiator hosing. Radiator hoses are better than back then, but I still recently had the hard plastic “T” joints crack in the 3 hoses going into/out of the heater core on my wife’s 2011 truck. An entire new hose assembly was (IIRC) $150 and required some acrobatics to replace, whereas just smashing up the old T joints (to get them out of the flex hosing) and replacing with a few bucks worth of generic T joints was pretty easy.
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Yes… Many years ago, I had a muffler with a rusted hole in it. I wrapped it with some scrap roofing flashing and tightened it up (around the muffler) with some plumbers strapping. It held just fine and lasted until I got rid of that truck.
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Handy Dan! Good save!
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