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Post# 796719   11/30/2014 at 19:31 (3,405 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)        

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Hi all..
I have replaced the pump of my filter flo about 1 year ago,  and the other one 3  yrs ago as it would leak from the vent...so it'd be the 3rd pump I replace in 4 years!
Last day while using the machine I have noticed a few streams of water coming from the two corners, it couldn't even end the rinse that the power went off (safety switch-water got in the motor)...
I moved the machine and noticed some sorts of black grease sprayed all over the cabinet, especially near the pump, that would leak always from the vent.
Looks like the lubricant of the pump have been sprayed.....along with the water....it din't make this thing with the old pumps....

But question is why i get broken pumps so quickly???? Are all the pumps I buy faulty or what?



Since I know the new pump will take awhile to arrive (especially now as we are around Christmas) I went to pick up a small  replacement washer, to use for the moment....
It was the only  used washer small/ thin enough  to fit in the empty corner I have in the bathroom, yet the only  used washer  on sale that I knew used the water to wash unlike modern junks .....it's a front loader of course....a zerowatt...I wished to find something better....even because  I got a lemon as it's pump is broken as well (can get it here in towns for 16 euros anyway, tomorrow gonna get it).
I have used  this machine anyway in the weekend as I needed absolutely to wash.. letting her gravity drain in the shower..
I paid it 50 euros....I'd have never paid that  money if I didn't need a washer ASAP.... (the servis it's already  stored at the farm  at first floor as I am starting moving the stuff... grr...."if only I knew I'd have kelpt it here"....)..but looking in the hovel the seller lived (it looked a kind of favelas house) and seing their evident bad economic conditons and  that they were  victim of a recent flood also, then I feel like I made some charity....so I don't mind of the money...machine is rusty, but beside the pump it works...

I am looking forwad to get the filter-flo running again......




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Post# 796723 , Reply# 1   11/30/2014 at 19:52 (3,405 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)        

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Great...... they never comes alone....
The Speed Queen dryer just quitted heating!
I opened the panel...the ignitor won't light up....
So now I have  washer with broken pump, a dishwasher on it's side in the middle of the kitchen, and the dryer...something else???
Gosh....what did I do of so bad to deserve this???


Post# 796768 , Reply# 2   12/1/2014 at 03:49 (3,405 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas)        

Sometimes we just say "crap" happens. But we don't use the word crap.

Hoping that good karma comes your way soon!


Post# 797405 , Reply# 3   12/4/2014 at 18:15 (3,401 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)        

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Yes.......
My house it's always been like this, I can go for long w/out troubles, but when it's time, they all come like a line of donminos....
Now I have a dishwasher in the middle of the kitchen, drying racks and hanged laundry everywhere, to fit the provisional machine I had to find a new place (which is not at all appropriate) for the shoe racks cupboards...
Am starting packing to move this Spring also...
My house now looks like a romani gypsy camp (the ones you find in Europe)LOL



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