Appliance Woes: This Goddamned Thing

"Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura" (sundowne36) 03/03/2014 at 17:10 • Filed to: None

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A long time ago, my family needed to replace the aging top-loader we had since 1995? to 2006. And for some reason, I found a machine (picture of how it works on top) for sale (cheap! $500) thinking if it acts and saves water like a front loader, it's the best of both worlds! Right?

... Right?

Those things you see in the tub only spun in one direction and upon seeing how it worked.... The clothes weren't moving rapidly and there was little to no water.

Well, after only a few months of ownership, it accidentally died in my hands when I had the brightest idea to make it spin with my quilt inside of it. Mind you, I didn't tell my folks what killed it at the time, though I knew something inside broke - and now it won't spin.

Brian Silvestro > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 03/03/2014 at 17:13

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"It accidentally died in my hands"

So you killed it.

Time to look up how to fix it on the internet!

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > Brian Silvestro 03/03/2014 at 17:15

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Oh, we got rid of it. We sold it and watched as some dude in an E350 "handled it with care" before he took off.

He just pushed it onto its side and shoved it into the back.

Vince-The Roadside Mechanic > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 03/03/2014 at 17:15

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Motor swap time?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 03/03/2014 at 17:16

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"Works like front loader" washing machine fails in a manner unique to itself when faced with a quilt, something a normal machine (either kind) would have at worst shaken around a lot with. Err...

Brian Silvestro > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 03/03/2014 at 17:17

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Oh, then problem solved!

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/03/2014 at 17:20

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Well, there's always the trusty laundromat.

Textured Soy Protein > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 03/03/2014 at 17:38

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A couple weeks ago my gf and I decided to celebrate National Margarita Day. This ended in me accidentally running her custom bite guard through the washing machine. Inside of a drinking glass, which was wrapped in a towel, which was thrown in with a queen sized mattress pad.

Gf had woken up in the middle of the night, said 'I don't feel so good' then proceeded to barf everywhere. Somehow the mattress pad but not other sheets got barf on them, she threw the glass & other stuff in a pile with the mattress pad, I took what I thought was just a mattress pad down to the washing machine and threw it in. I heard some clanking coming from the washing machine but figured the off-balance weight of the mattress pad was causing it and went back to sleep.

Next morning, she couldn't find her bite guard, and found it inside the glass in the washing machine. The glass, and bite guard, had survived.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 03/03/2014 at 17:52

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since you're swapping the motor you should go for a 6 speed manual swap and turbo. Better control over your suds mixture and drying time.

Fookin' Prawns > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 03/03/2014 at 18:07

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Dude, you should get one of these:

Fookin' Prawns > Fookin' Prawns 03/03/2014 at 18:11

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Fuck you, Kinja.

Roberto G. > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 03/03/2014 at 18:12

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Buy a European front loading washer-dryer, and evolve into the third millennium:

RotaryLover > Fookin' Prawns 03/04/2014 at 08:39

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This is awesome!!!!!