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"Brad" wrote in message
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My Duet stopped draining the other day. I checked the drain hose and
everything seemed fine so I figured something was wrong with the pump.
Not having any kind of instructions I lugged the thing (all 300 pounds)
out of the drain pain and into the middle of the room so I could get the
back panel off. As luck would have it the pump is in the front and can be
accessed by removing the lower front panel. I tried that first, but it
seemed to have hidden screws above (which it doesn't). You just remove
the three screws by the floor and work it free (apply extra elbow grease
here).

The pump has a simple plastic cap to expose the pre-impeller chamber. It
turned out there was a small kids' sock in there. I have no idea how it
got there because there is no hole bigger than 1/16 inch anywhere in the
tub.

I am just writing this because somebody will eventually do a usenet search
for this kind of problem and I couldn't find any such information when I
looked.

The problem has been listed before. How big is the sock? Might have been
the Sears Kenmore version so if you looked under Whirlpool you wouldn't have
found it.

It's not the Kenmore version, but I'm pretty sure they're the same unit.

The sock is about 3-4 inches long. It's a sock for a 4-year-old.