Got a call from our tenant on Sunday about the washing machine not working right....

FCK!! We 2 weeks out from closing on the sale of this anchor...I do NOT need shit breaking down now and costing me money...All the appliances are now at least 11 years old....I just need them shits to last 2-3 more weeks please!

So anyway...like a BOSS...I grab my tools and head over there to see what it do...
or what it DON'T do..

So the joint stopped mid cycle AFTER it filled with water.... my deduction was that something has to be telling the machine to NOT proceed with the wash cycle now that the tank is full of water...
WHY?
Because... SAFETY.....a big tub of water doesn't need to be sloshing around when....The LID IS OPEN...
BUT..the lid is CLOSED...

Hmmmmm....

What signals to the machine that the lid is closed?? a SWITCH.
Where is that switch?..

*Breaks out screw driver*
*sees switch is on the back side of the rim where the lid latches*
*determines that the top has to come off in order to access the switch*

Yada yada yada....10 min. later...

The switch crumbled in my fingers... so I snipped the connecter off that joint, spliced the two wires together and plugged the disconnected connecter back in to the washer....flipped the breaker back on, and
BAM!! Washing machine is back to washing again...

THIS is how you slum lord like a BOSS!!





"Get ready....for your blessing....."

now just cross your fingers and pray for another couple weeks.

dryer went kaput, I got the tools out got to digging, got to the on/off switch and started tinkering but then it kinda hit me that I should unplug the fucking thing since the wires are live

I did make the mistake of activating the circuit without putting the top cover back on though .... water started sloshing a bit toooooo close to them freshly exposed wires...


"Get ready....for your blessing....."

I feel like I can do everything.

You basically shorted it. Now, someone can lift the lid and the machine will still run. Some dummy sticks a hand in there and now you're getting sued.

>You basically shorted it. Now, someone can lift the lid and
>the machine will still run. Some dummy sticks a hand in there
>and now you're getting sued.
lol...
nah...
I know..
New switch is en route from Santa ...AKA Amazon.com. Tenant had a load he needed to get done ahead of the work week. Couldn't let the homie start his work week un-fresh.
Told him to not be stupid and i'd have the permanent fix by next weekend.

"Get ready....for your blessing....."

I feel like a boss.

I get real YouTube specific

Also helps to have an HVAC guy as my neighbor.

He prolly saved us hundreds plus he showed me how to fix a few minor things myself.

noticed it after we moved in, told the landlord. his response: "i could fix it but i would need to shut off the water for the whole house"

it was a small occasional drip til about 2 months before i fixed it. it turned to a steady stream.

turns out i only needed to turn off the hot water to fix it. stripped screw head complicated things but i was able to make a new notch with my dremel. i did have to buy a shower socket wrench and a new valve.

i shouldn't had waited so long but really he shouldnt had hesitated to fix it.

So... The fridge seemed to be acting up on Friday. Randomly cycling on and off the compressor. Saturday morning the ice was getting soft. In the fridge, the digital temp readout was climbing. By the evening, the fridge would cut off and restart itself every 5 minutes or so. Not a good sign

All the appliances in the house were new when bought, so it should not be going out at 9 years in. I also don't have $1400+ for a counter depth fridge. Being it is now Saturday evening, the chances of getting a service guy out any sooner than Monday are slim. Time to hit the innanets...

The problem was narrowed down to the control board in that model of fridge (and a bunch of other refrigerators from other brands that used the same part). Turns out the board is out of production (apparently the company that made them was wiped out in that tsunami that hit). A few places offered to 'recondition' the control board, but it would take close to a week to have it shipped, fixed, and sent back. After an hour or two I stumbled on a blog that detailed a similar problem. Of greater interest, the claimed fix was $6...

https://www.stevejenkins.com/blog/2014/03/how-to-fix-a-whirlpool-kitchenaid-w10219463-2307028-control-board-for-6/

By this time it's Sunday morning. Fridge has cycled on and off all night, and we already tossed food or moved what we could to coolers with ice. May as well give it a shot. The fix called for removing the control board and soldering a relay and a few capacitors. Amazon had the parts, and actually had SAME DAY SHIPPING ON SUNDAY with Prime. Since time is of the essence I paid the delivery fee, which was about the same as the parts. But, $22 >>> $1400. Parts came that evening, I heated up the soldering iron, swapped the parts out, reinstalled everything, and...

It Worked!!

Walked around the house like a big boss for a week...

Ice machine worked tho after it was installed

I feel so defeated when I had to make that call.

Replacing the capacitors and relay worked for about a month, but the control board had to have been pretty far gone anyway, as the fridge would never go on a defrost cycle. So after about 10 days the coils would freeze up. I emptied everything again, pulled the freezer apart, defrosted the coils with my heat gun and installed a new thermostat and fan. Same thing happened 2 weeks later.

I bit the bullet and bought the 'service kit', which was a replacement for the original control board (and apparently what is being used to fix all the refrigerators with this problem). The cheapest I could find it was about $275, but it was being drop shipped from the west coast and would take a week to get to the house. So we pulled the coolers out once again, got some dry ice, and toughed it out.

Replacing the control board itself wasn't too difficult. It was pretty much a plug and play solution. The design was interesting though. Whereas the original control board was just one PCB, the new setup was made of 5 separate PCBs. The case that the PCBs was designed to mount to the same spot as the original, but it was much larger, so the fit was super tight. I managed to wrangle it in there, but the rollers on the fridge looked to be jammed and scratched the floor when I moved it back in the place.

2 years later the fridge has been rock solid and the temps haven't budged. Cost a little more than I wanted, but less than having a repair man come out and MUCH less than a new one.

Lectricity dont play fam...

Lol

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>Go
>So the joint stopped mid cycle AFTER it filled with water....
>my deduction was that something has to be telling the machine
>to NOT proceed with the wash cycle now that the tank is full
>of water...
>WHY?
>Because... SAFETY.....a big tub of water doesn't need to be
>sloshing around when....The LID IS OPEN...
>BUT..the lid is CLOSED...
>



Basically if you've got the kind of washer that uses a dial to select the wash cycle, it also controls the timing of the cycle. The dial (really the selector underneath the dial) can get unseated and mess up the wash cycle if it's pulled out too aggressively.

Anyway, like everybody else, I Googled/Youtubed it and decided it would be the cheap fix to try first. I saw how to remove the dial, re-seat the selector and re-attach the dial. Voila, washer was back on it's normal cycle

My wife had a house party with her girlfriends on probably the hottest day of the summer. I had been out, doing my own thing all day, only to come back to the house at 10pm with the temperature reading 90 degrees.

My wife thinks nothing of it, she likes it hot but I wasn't about to die in my sleep from heat exhaustion so I started poking around the AC.

I could hear the thermostat kick on to signal the AC to turn on so I was confident that wasn't the issue.

The air handler for the house wasn't that old at that point and I didn't see any obvious issues.

I went outside to look at the unit and it was literally too hot to touch. Hmmm... didn't know what to do but since it was late on a Saturday, I had time to play around with it before trying to get a technician on Monday. So I broke out the spare floor unit A/C's that we had and did my best to make a couple rooms bearable for the night.

The next morning, I go back to tinkering with the unit. I flip some breakers and still no dice but I do notice an occasional electric hum from the outside unit. I do my Google's and find out that these units have a capacitor for kickstarting the fan that cools the bell housing that's filled with the refrigerant.

I decide to kickstart the fan manually with a stick and boom, it's spinning! At this point, I'm pretty sure it's just the capacitor so I order one on Amazon for next day delivery ($30 total).

The next day, I remove the old capacitor (after shorting it out), install the new capacitor and we're back in business. It would've cost $80 just to get someone out there just to look at it but I was able to do it myself for less than half.

In hindsight, that incident probably accelerated the demise of the air handler because I had to replace leaking coils a couple years later