My washing machine is broke.
It washes fine and rinses fine.
The problem occurs during the final spin...because it doesn't.
Final spin that is.
Let me now explain what poor people (yes, that is me and I'm not ashamed of it) do when their washing machine breaks...
You first pull out a load of sopping wet clothes and notice a small pool of water resting in the bottom of the machine.
You then shove the clothes back in, unplug the machine, plug it back in and restart the load in hopes that it resets and the problem is resolved.
This is sort of like how you used to blow into a Nintendo game that quit working and for some reason it would work though it really didn't make any sense how breathing on it helped but you didn't care because it was fixed and that was all that mattered.
When you realize unplugging it did, in fact, not reset it and you still have dripping wet clothes and a pool of water in the drum you head to the fixer of all problems....
Google.
You type in the make and model of your washing machine followed by the phrase "dripping wet clothes", and guess what?
You are not the first person to experience this very problem.
You read about other issues and narrow it down to your exact symptoms.
You discover that it is your wax motor and also something called an R11 Resistor and a Q6 triac.
There is a YouTube video demonstrating exactly how to remove and replace the wax motor and also how to replace the parts on the control board (which admittedly looks very scary).
You purchase the wax motor for $8 and decide you can fix this yourself despite the fact that you have no idea how to use a soldering gun and also have not had the time to actually locate the control board in the machine that will need soldering.
Meanwhile your laundry has piled all the way up into the laundry chute and you have no clean underwear because you refuse to dry one load of dripping wet laundry in the dryer for 3 hours and it's so windy/rainy that you can't dry them on the clothesline.
You then come up with an ingenious solution to get you through the next few days until you have time to fix the machine.
This solution involves a metal pole stuck through two ladders in the basement next to the wood stove in which clothes are allowed to dry almost all the way and then finished off in the dryer.
The bonus is that since the clothes are dripping onto the concrete forming a little rivulet that is then evaporating quickly due to the heat from the stove you now have, not only dry clothes and clean underwear but also your very own free humidifier for the dry winter months.
And that, dear friends, is why my family room, though it may just look like a Venetian allyway, is actually serving as a way to reduce the amount of dry sinuses in our family.
And no one wants dry sinuses.
B
You can see the rest of this session here under "Hovis Family".
2 comments:
glad for your resourfullness(sp) and not dry sinuses...love wood heat for multitasking.....but have been to Venice and if your fridge is not on the balcony and the laundry 4 stories up the picture is a bit off...glad for you to have any clean undies..
I'll always be amazed at your resourcefullness. It is inspiring!
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