February 2009

Intrepid Apprentice Conquers a Whirlpool / Kenmore Direct Drive Washer with a Lazy Spin

February 18, 2009 Forum

If you’ve been too intimidated to repair your own appliances, come read this exciting saga of how Tampa Patty replaced the clutch in her washing machine. Tampa Patty is a stouthearted Apprentice in the Samurai Appliance Repair Forum. She had never repaired her washer before and didn’t even know how to take it apart. But [...]

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Now Playing: The All-New Screencast of How to Get Started in the Samurai Appliance Repair Forums

February 17, 2009 Forum

Now playing on a monitor near you, the Director’s Cut edition of our award-winning screencast, “Getting Started in the Samurai Appliance Repair Forums.” With completely new footage all shot on location here at Samurai International Headquarters, you don’t want to miss it. And it’s “now playing” all the time! Watch the thrilling escapades of Pointy [...]

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Yet Another Reason to Avoid GE Appliances: Ripoff Parts Prices

February 3, 2009 General Appliance Wisdom

Let’s list some of the reasons to avoid GE appliances: they have lots of safety recalls for design defects; they’ve had class action lawsuits for building crappy stuff. they refuse to make their technical service manuals freely available to their customers as other, more enlightened manufacturers have done (e.g., Whirlpool, LG, Frigidaire, and Dacor); they [...]

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Diagnosing a No-Spin Problem on a Maytag Performa or Atlantis Top-Loading Washing Machine

February 3, 2009 Washer Repair

So, you have a Maytag Performa or Atlantis washer that agitates the clothes fine, but just won’t spin. Ahh, Grasshoppah, strap yourself in and prepare to receive Total Appliance Enlightenment®. First step in diagnosing this problem is to… oh, nevermind– I’ll just let Sublime Master Trying to Help explain: Make sure belt is fine as [...]

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