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"It's only a bloody washing machine" says the missus. "Much less complicated
than those amplifier thingies that you work on all day !"

Ha !

It's a Hotpoint WMA64. Drum motor is not running, wash, rinse or spin.
Probably just brushes but the motor on this model is right underneath the
drum, and I really couldn't be fagged to try and get to it tonight to check,
after the day I've had with my car broken down, my son's car insisting to
him that it's overheating, when it clearly isn't, and a whole cartload of
other stuff to make me tear my hair.

Just as an 'in case of problems' does anyone know of a site that has free
downloads of service info for domestic appliances such as this ?

Cheers

Arfa

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On Mar 30, 1:18*am, "Arfa Daily" wrote:
"It's only a bloody washing machine" says the missus. "Much less complicated
than those amplifier thingies that you work on all day !"

Ha !

It's a Hotpoint WMA64. Drum motor is not running, wash, rinse or spin.
Probably just brushes but the motor on this model is right underneath the
drum, and I really couldn't be fagged to try and get to it tonight to check,
after the day I've had with my car broken down, my son's car insisting to
him that it's overheating, when it clearly isn't, and a whole cartload of
other stuff to make me tear my hair.

Just as an 'in case of problems' does anyone know of a site that has free
downloads of service info for domestic appliances such as this ?

Cheers

Arfa


I don't know about manuals, but http://www.buyspares.com/ provide a
video showing how to do the replacement. But they do warn to check the
type of motor before ordering, and there are several subscripts to the
WMA64 model number.

Chris
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On Mar 30, 1:18*am, "Arfa Daily" wrote:
"It's only a bloody washing machine" says the missus. "Much less complicated
than those amplifier thingies that you work on all day !"

Ha !

It's a Hotpoint WMA64. Drum motor is not running, wash, rinse or spin.
Probably just brushes but the motor on this model is right underneath the
drum, and I really couldn't be fagged to try and get to it tonight to check,
after the day I've had with my car broken down, my son's car insisting to
him that it's overheating, when it clearly isn't, and a whole cartload of
other stuff to make me tear my hair.

Just as an 'in case of problems' does anyone know of a site that has free
downloads of service info for domestic appliances such as this ?

Cheers

Arfa


I hope you wont be getting another hotpoint.


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"It's only a bloody washing machine" says the missus. "Much less complicated
than those amplifier thingies that you work on all day !"

Ha !

It's a Hotpoint WMA64. Drum motor is not running, wash, rinse or spin.
Probably just brushes but the motor on this model is right underneath the
drum, and I really couldn't be fagged to try and get to it tonight to check,
after the day I've had with my car broken down, my son's car insisting to
him that it's overheating, when it clearly isn't, and a whole cartload of
other stuff to make me tear my hair.

Just as an 'in case of problems' does anyone know of a site that has free
downloads of service info for domestic appliances such as this ?

Not manuals I'm afraid but I have done some faultfinding on a recent
Hotpoint (not WMA64) using tips and advice found on the diynot forums.
There are a few in the trade there and there's usually enough advice
been passed around to fault find most stuff.

http://www.diynot.com/forums/

Searching with google (my I hate to say that these days) or bing using:

'Hotpoint WMA64 site:diynot.com' gets a healthy number of useful looking
hits.

'Hotpoint WMA64 repair' will get any not on diynot but I find the advice
there hard to beat.
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In article , Arfa Daily
writes
"It's only a bloody washing machine" says the missus. "Much less
complicated
than those amplifier thingies that you work on all day !"

Ha !

It's a Hotpoint WMA64. Drum motor is not running, wash, rinse or spin.
Probably just brushes but the motor on this model is right underneath the
drum, and I really couldn't be fagged to try and get to it tonight to
check,
after the day I've had with my car broken down, my son's car insisting to
him that it's overheating, when it clearly isn't, and a whole cartload of
other stuff to make me tear my hair.

Just as an 'in case of problems' does anyone know of a site that has free
downloads of service info for domestic appliances such as this ?

Not manuals I'm afraid but I have done some faultfinding on a recent
Hotpoint (not WMA64) using tips and advice found on the diynot forums.
There are a few in the trade there and there's usually enough advice been
passed around to fault find most stuff.

http://www.diynot.com/forums/

Searching with google (my I hate to say that these days) or bing using:

'Hotpoint WMA64 site:diynot.com' gets a healthy number of useful looking
hits.

'Hotpoint WMA64 repair' will get any not on diynot but I find the advice
there hard to beat.
--
fred
it's a ba-na-na . . . .


Cheers Fred. Provided all goes well today, I'll try and get a proper squint
at it tonight. Even if it's not the motor, I doubt it will be anything
serious on the control board. Bad relay or bad joints on the bottom of one
or some such. At least the board is mounted right up at the top where you
can get at it and it's not anywhere near any water, and it's exactly the
sort of stuff that I work on to component level for the day job, so not
intimidated by it at all ... :-)

Arfa



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On Mar 30, 1:18 am, "Arfa Daily" wrote:
"It's only a bloody washing machine" says the missus. "Much less
complicated
than those amplifier thingies that you work on all day !"

Ha !

It's a Hotpoint WMA64. Drum motor is not running, wash, rinse or spin.
Probably just brushes but the motor on this model is right underneath the
drum, and I really couldn't be fagged to try and get to it tonight to
check,
after the day I've had with my car broken down, my son's car insisting to
him that it's overheating, when it clearly isn't, and a whole cartload of
other stuff to make me tear my hair.

Just as an 'in case of problems' does anyone know of a site that has free
downloads of service info for domestic appliances such as this ?

Cheers

Arfa


I hope you wont be getting another hotpoint.


NT


Errr, why ??

Arfa

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