On Feb 28, 9:12*am, mm wrote:
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:33:43 -0600, "Don Young"
wrote:



"hr(bob) " wrote in message

My 3-year old Admiral washing machine (made by Maytag)sometimes fails
to drain and spin at the end of the rinse cycle. It has been doing
this about 10% of the time for the last year.

If I rotate the timer back to the final spin position, it always works

By "rotate back", you mean rotate all the way around, 350 degrees,
until you are back, right? * Washer timers generally don't like to be
rotated backwards, and doing so would make things worse. *And might
have caused the problem in the first place.

ok. Today I happened to be in the laundry and see the machine in the
middle of what should have been the rinse drain/spin cycle and the
machine was still agitating. I opened the lid and then reclosed it,
and the machine immediately went into the drain/spin cycle.

As far as I know, the motor direction determines if it agitates or
pumps out and spins. I am assuming that there is a relay somewhere

Don't know about Admiral but on Whirlpool, the motor only goes lin one
direction and solenoids determine the details aobut what happens.

that failed to operate/release and put the motor into the correct
direction to drain and spin. I know there is an appliance repair
group, but can't seem to come up with it.

Thanx. *It did the same no-reversing thing while I was watching it
tonight, found a schematic inside the top rear plate, will study the
wiring to see if it is the timer, as that is where the reversal of the
motor is accomplished. If so, a big hammer lightly applied to the
timer may be the next step.
It seems possible to me that the problem is that the lid switch is not
always actuating properly. Most washers will not go into a spin cycle with
the lid up, but they will agitate.

But isn't that when the timer is in the agitate position? *When the
tub is spinning and I open the door, the washer just stops doing
anything, whereas his is agitating.



Lid switches are a fairly common problem
area.

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The Admiral/Maytag machines have a reversing motor and no relay, the
power to the motor is supposed to be shut off for several seconds at
the end of the wash or the rinse cycle before power is reconnected in
the opposite polarity to change the direction of the motor spin and
thus start the pump out and spinning action.

I have watched it go thru the fill, wash-agitate, pause, drain/spin,
refill, rinse-agitate and keep on agitating right into what should be
the second spin cycle without ever pausing two different times. So,
that means the timer is not removing power to the motor like it should
be doing for the second pause, so time for a new timer. Took the
current timer apart, couldn't see the specific contacts involved, but
wiggled everything to see that the various spring leaves did move,
will try it again as soon as I can dirty some clothes.