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 [...]

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 [...]

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 are the preferred brand [...]

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 [...]