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Post# 160879   10/17/2006 at 11:10 (6,400 days old) by fredriksam (Sweden)        

Yep. I have told about my Siemens machine that stopped working. Smelling burnt and drum moving really strange. So, i took the machine to my job.

Removed the back. First impression: OHHH ALOT of soot here. *thinking thinking.

Removing motor AHA. Found a culprit here. The carbon brushes totally gone, one of them actually hanging sideaways. I had "jumped" out of the plastic socket. Then i walked to our store that sell washing machines.

Ordered new pair of brushes. Got them friday last week. Put them in in the motor, put in the motor again. Start machine and..... No longer burned smell....BUT... drum still moving a little strange.

AAARRRGH!!!!. Removed the main control board. UH-OH.
Yep: Fried. Probably when the carbon brushes went it got so much sparkling it destroyed the control board.

Sooooo. What to do then. Then just as i think of getting back and order a new control board, a friend of mine comes in and said he had a washing machine to give us.

He said the pump had gone in it and he wanted a new one. So i,m geting out to his van to collect the machine he wanted to get rid of. And its a Siemens, exactly the same model i have.

I asked if there was more fault with it and he said it leaked alot. I thanked him and took the machine to my place there.

Of course i took the control board from that one to mine and now mine is working again. But jeez what a lucky day or what???

Now today when i started it again i noticed it sounds less noisy then it has for a long long time. Guess it was because the brushes it was so damn noisy.

And my girlfriend has made a tiger cake because she is so happy. Me too of course.





Post# 161056 , Reply# 1   10/18/2006 at 06:43 (6,399 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York)        

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Congrats man!
This is a wow moment.......


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