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Post# 1052802   11/30/2019 at 19:33 (1,599 days old) by davemac1969 (Preston )        

Hi everyone. Today I managed to repair my mother’s 95840. It’s been in the family since 1984. It will now be her daily machine again!

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Post# 1052828 , Reply# 1   12/1/2019 at 06:55 (1,599 days old) by ozzie908 (Lincoln UK)        
Well done

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What a lovely washer, Did you have to do much to get it repaired?

Post# 1052917 , Reply# 2   12/2/2019 at 08:23 (1,598 days old) by davemac1969 (Preston )        
Thank you!

Thank you.

Yes, it took a lot more work that I was expecting! I knew that it needed drum bearings, so I replaced those and the motor brushes firstly. I discovered that the spider was crumbling and that bits of it had damaged the drum itself. Thankfully I was able to use the one from her WM63 machine, which had just broken! It was almost identical, but I also had to swap out the clipped-on plastic front because the drum was fouling the old one by about 1mm! Unfortunately this necessitated swapping over the heating element and making a new hole for the extra thermistor from the Microtronic L.E. After all this it worked for about an hour and then the RFI mains filter exploded! Thankfully I was again able to steal one from the WM63. I replaced a dodgy door microswitch too, so quite a job in the end, but it had become personal! 😂

Cheers,
David


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