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I had that sort of a problem with a dryer spent. Took an hour before I
checked the outlet and found I only had one side of the 220. The electrician only tightened one hot and the neutral screw, one hot had never been tightened down. I thought it was good because I checked and reset the breaker first. Karl "wallster" wrote in message ... "Leon Heller" wrote in message ... "TLKALLAM8" wrote in message ... I wish i was so lucky I went a bought the most expensive washer in the store ( maytag neptune) thinking the more i spend the less proplems i will have .Well they have changed it out 3 times and now my waranty is out.My door latch went bad and blew a resister in the main board $ 200 just for parts . I wonder why they can't make the same washers as the one you have .Why change it if it works. Didn't Maytag make very reliable long-lasting equipment at one time? I think Vance Packard mentioned them favourably in his book 'The Wastemakers'. Leon -- Leon Heller, G1HSM http://www.geocities.com/leon_heller I have a year old maytag dishwasher that was installed when i had my kitchen completly gutted and renovated. About six months after it was installed it just stopped. I pulled the service panel off and checked the power lead with a multimeter. It showed 117.5 volts... it had power (or so i thought) I didn't want to mess with something i knew little about so i called a friend of the family who had been fixing our appliances for years. He worked full time for an appliance service company and in the evening he repairs stuff "on the side" He stopped by, pulled the panel and found a loose wire nut on the common lead (i checked the freakin power lead never thinking the common was loose) he replaced the wire nuts, reattached the panel (about 4-6 screws) then charged us $40.00 Not bad for about five minutes of work! (that's like $480. per hour) i think brain surgery cost that much. Anyway, i hope my $40.00 story will inspire all of you to check ALL the basic stuff before giving in. I think $40. was excessive, if it were me, i'd have said, "it was a simple fix, how about $20." but that's me. walt |
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