[CORVAIRWILD]

I also posted this in another thread from 2007, I hope this's OK...

My wife and I own a small apt complex w 3 washers and 3 dryers. We bought them new 7-8 years ago, and are the push button coin operated top load models. Manufactured by Whirlpool.

One of them recently had a complaint that it was shaking or wobbling excessively. I removed the front cover, and all seemed in place. I verified the sliding blocks, the 3 springs in place. I even removed the front cover of the adjoining machine to compare them. All seemed fine... I then washed a medium load of shop towels, they came out normal damp, and I removed the "out of order tag".

A month or so later, one of our good tenants mentioned her clothes were soaking wet, so I wonder if the 1st prob was just overloading/unbalanced, or if the machine isn't draining/spinning properly?

I have read a couple of posts regarding a clutch lining. I've had minimal clothes machine experience, and the local repair shop mentioned a rubber coupler. I have replaced one of these on our machine at home, but from my recollections, this machine doesn't have this type of connection. I'll have to pull the cover and take some pix for this forum.

Moving along, I mentioned to my wife that maybe it's time to sell these machines and upgrade to modern front loaders to save water. We pay for every drop, and even though these don't get too much use, why wait till they're troublesome and rusty?

We collect around $300-400 per month based on $1.50 per load on the wash and dry machines, so that translates to $75 per machine, (the 2 closer ones get more use, this's one of those), so the $6,000 they cost was paid off a few years ago.

I'm not impressed with these machines as the dryer had a few problems when new due to careless assembly, and one of the washers consistently left the tub half filled, even after numerous parts were repaired under warranty. After a year, Whirlpool "scrapped" the machine and gave us a new one. I saved a number of parts from it before it was hauled away.

These machines replaced Maytags that were rented, and those always seemed to have electronic probs, and we made little of the money collected and had to wait a week or two until the tech would show up to replace the circuit board. Thus we bot these non-electronic machines. The only downside is that the tenants couldn't add coins to increase the wash or dry time during the cycle.

I don't imagine there are any "manual" machines available any longer... Recommendations?

[wallykap]

Trade it with one that does' t get as much use

[CORVAIRWILD]

Good idea... and another tenant tried it today, and it seemed to work fine, maybe the clutch, if it has one, is weak, and slips under heavy load