[homeclinic] Portable Washing Machines
- From: KinerA@xxxxxxx
- To: homeclinic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 09:10:49 EDT
In a message dated 4/7/2005 7:59:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,
drs@xxxxxxxxxx
writes:
However:
I'm seeing American-made front loaders' main bearings
lasting only 5-7 years, and that's just not long enough (I
don't see enough 'offshore' brand machines - Asko, Miele,
etc - to know much about their reliability).
It's tough to fix this inherent weakness, and it's the number
one reason (of several) that I can't recommend these machines.
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My wife and I have had two of the top-load "portable" washers which we used
hooked up to the kitchen sink faucet.
The first was a whirlpool made for Kenmore and that lasted 20 yrs. We
replaced that with a whirlpool named top loader, small machine adapted as
portable
to the kitchen sink.
We have had this second machine for 10 yrs. This second machine just a
couple weeks ago started leaking and the repair man tells us that the main
bottom
bearing went and it costs almost as much to repair as to replace. Maybe
there is also a problem with top loader bearings.
BTW, the whirlpool nameplate portable model which is now being sold is
actually made out the country, I think Korea, and the repairman told us
not to
buy a foreign machine. At the same time, whirlpool makes in the US a
machine
of the size and type we want for Crosley. We live on the same block as a
family that owns an appliance store, and they also said to buy only US
made. So
that left us with the whirlpool made machine with the Crosley name on it.
We
boutht the Crosley nameplate machine made by Whirlpool in the US.
Any comments?
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