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Archive for July, 2008

Whirlpool Washer Won’t Spin

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

tony wrote:
my whirlpool washer do not spin, it is about two years old.
No model number given so I don’t know if this washer is a top-loader or a Whirlpool Duet front-loader. However, based on the improper conjugation of the verb “to do” in your problem statement and my razor-sharp Samurai insight, I intuit that [...]

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Oven Temperature Sensors

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

So, you’ve determined that your oven sensor is bad. You did this by getting an error code on the ERC and then looking up the code with a little help from your Master Appliantologist friends at the Samurai Appliance Repair Forums. As a dutiful Apprentice Appliantologist, your next step is to test the [...]

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Fried Timer on a Maytag MDB5000AWW Dishwasher

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

So you’re happily running your Maytag dishwasher one day, getting the Alpo scrubbed off of your dinner plates when your nostrils are assaulted by a burning smell. You quickly check the pair of skivvies you’re wearing and, finding them to be (reasonably) clean, you discover that Da Schmeel is indeed wafting from your Maytag [...]

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High Altitude Service Call

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Living up here in New Hampshire, I do service calls in some remote places. Here’s a picture of a service call I did at a high mountain cottage in the White Mountains. Carrying all my tools up the mountain was tough on my bad back. And then those hikes all the way back [...]

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