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Post# 746548   3/31/2014 at 12:02 (3,678 days old) by Fredriksam (Sweden)        

The Electrolux Wascator at my job died today. I,m not exactly sure how old the machine was but my guess is around 15 years.

I,m working at a sport club and they use the washing machines to wash their training clothes. The Electrolux Wascator has recently been through some problems. It stopped during the program, aborted spin, the program hanged itself during rinses so it almost overflowed, heater not heated enough etc.

We let the machine rest a week or two and then i did a test rinse and spin without clothes. Worked fine. Then i let the machine go through a complete program at 95 Celsius, again without clothes. It worked good again expect it was leaking from the outlet valve and inlet valve very slow water go through. Also it smelled strange during spin.

Anyway. I cleaned the inlet valve and found some coins blocking the outlet valve.
The machine worked fine again, until today.

I had turned on the machine on a 40 Celsius wash and went to other duties. Then some half hour later the power went out and we were sure it was a problem with a fan in one of the change rooms. We make the fan powerless and tried to get power again. No such luck. It turned off again.

Then somebody that was outside made a mention it smelled burned near the laundry room (you have to get out of the building and at the back to get to the laundry room). We went there and the room was totally full of smoke.

The machine still smoked very much. It seemed the smoke came from near the bottom of the machine. We make it powerless and we tried putting the power on again. This time it worked.

The clothes inside the machine were ruined. Theres a big black spotch inside the drum from the plastic of the clothes. The rubber around the drum had began melting at some spots. The most strange thing was that the clothes that was highest in the drum wasnt very hot while the lowest had began melting.

I dont know exactly what happened but no one wants to have the machine there anymore. We took the machine out of the building and let it sit outside still smoking. I guess it shortly will be driven to the local dumpster.

Some of the clothes that was at the top in the drum might be Usable after washing them in The Whirlpool. We havent done that yet but probably will tomorrow.

I find it sad that the machine did went haywire this way, especially after i took the time trying to fix it.

I show here the last video i filmed of it when it was working great.


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Post# 746549 , Reply# 1   3/31/2014 at 12:03 (3,678 days old) by Fredriksam (Sweden)        

Video 02

Oh by the way. The WE 46 is replaced with a Whirlpool.

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Post# 746563 , Reply# 2   3/31/2014 at 14:08 (3,677 days old) by whirlykenmore78 (Prior Lake MN (GMT-0500 CDT.))        
Smoke from the bottom of the machine tells me.

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More than likely the motor burned up.
Wk78


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