Wednesday the washing machine decided to stop spinning. Of course, it contained a load of soggy clothes. What else? Bill was good enough to take them to the laundromat and spin them out while I was at church.
We needed to figure out how to even get into the working parts of the machine so Bill did some nosing around on the Internet and found some videos that showed repair jobs -- maybe. Saturday he ascertained that it couldn't be in the agitator function, it must be the transmission and for the price of a transmission we might just as well get a new washer.
Then I did some research on the web and because I couldn't get the Consumer Report that I needed, we went to the library. Got what I needed and we were off looking. I had an idea of what I wanted. Figured we might as well go with a front loader that was more energy efficient, used less water, and spun the clothes dryer. So all I needed to do was look at the product, get some pricing figures, and make a decision. We (I) made a decision but would not purchase the same day wanting to sit on it overnight. By this morning I was ready.
While I was at church, Bill removed the washer and dryer so that he could go about replacing the platform they had been sitting on for seventeen years. Longer as this is the second washer in here and the platform was in before that. Over the years there has been water -- seepage, bottomed out water heater, and just the usual heavy rain stuff -- so there was a lot of yukky decay. BUT the interesting thing is that when he moved the washer, right underneath it, on the platform, was an obvious worn out part.
More Internet searching. We found the part and the part number. Bill, who is just the best at taking things apart, located where the damaged/worn out part belongs. Now all we have to do is locate a new part (more Internet research), get it into the base of the washer, get the whole thing put back together again -- and hope it works.
