No you have a cumulative issue here. Not just one device. I'd most certainly
remove everything of that ring and test the washer on its own.
Brian

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On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 07:18:07 -0800 (PST), wrote:

Out of the blue, my faithfull old Hoover washer tripped the RCD on my
consumer unit.

After reset, it'll stay untripped when the machine is powered on at the
socket, but as soon as I turn the control to anything other than 'off' the
RCD trips.

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When mine was doing that it was carbon (brush) dust on / around the
motor and blowing it out with a compressor fixed it.

In our case it was tripping when power was supplied at the wall,
*even* if the machine was off.

Cheers, T i m