Everyone loves a white goods thread, right?
The other day the tumble drier started making a godawful racket when it started rotating - a horrible vibrating noise and tried to walk it's way around the utility room.
I figured.. bearings, probably, maybe belt. So I ordered a full set of four front pad "bearings" (plastic slippers) and rear "bearing" (bushing, actually), belt, front felt seal from Beko spares direct, and waited.
They turned up today so I stripped it all down, changed out the front pads, changed out the rear bearing and popped the new belt on the drum. Put it all back together and.. the new belt is
significantly shorter than the old belt
Has the right length printed on it (1967 H9) but it's a good two inches from meeting the motor spindle and there's no way on god's earth I can get it to reach.
Bugger, I thought. And took it all apart again to put the old belt back on.
Put it back together, started it up and .. horrible vibrating noise. Grrr! The only thing I can think is that the belt is slipping because it's not tight enough (even though it takes a socket and extension to cheat the belt back onto the spindle), but the new one is so much shorter.
So it's off to a white goods spares place tomorrow to see if another 1967 H9 belt is more like the old one... meanwhile, the tumble sits on a trestle in the middle of the kitchen looking sorry for itself.
(Oh, and the top oven on the two month old oven has packed up, too, so we're doing well for white goods failures this week!)
