On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 09:35:09 +0100, newshound wrote:

For other victims, the strap sits between a couple of guides, but if you
wiggle it out from between them (like I did last week) the angle is such
that you can't then pull hard enough to release the catch. The strap has
a sort of arrow head with a hole in it. The technique, I have found, is
to spear the hole with a stiff metal skewer and then push downwards
using the skewer as a cantilever. It could have been engineered so much
better, particularly for those with limited dexterity. And, of course,
it is right down at floor level, so both difficult to get at and to see.

The drain cover has a cunning hinge which means you can remove and
replace it completely without tools. This makes it much easier to drain
the drum, using the little hose, or to take the pump cover off without
getting water everywhere. But again, this is not intuitively obvious.

I would suggest removing the pump cover twice a year, and cleaning out
what's in there. I encountered a situation where there was so much crud
(generated by teenage sons) that I couldn't rotate the pump cover. In the
end I replaced the pump. I used the Dremel to remove the old pump cover
in pieces, got a new cover, and now I have a spare pump!



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