In article ,
"Bob Eager" writes:
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 14:49:21 UTC, (Andrew
Gabriel) wrote:
New bearing kit (two bearings and bearing seal) for a Hotpoint
is under a fiver. Buy a new drum seal at the same time as old
one won't reseal after 20 years. Don't know if same applies to
a Zanussi.

Indeed. In fact I replaced the spider and shaft as well and it's still
only about 15 quid!

I had to do that second time, because I left it too long after
the bearing collapsed and the bearing seal stopped working, and
there was no way the bearing was going to slide up the rusty
shaft.

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Andrew Gabriel