Thread: A Bit of a Sort Out

My desire to hoard less received a knock today. I had an old LG washing machine here that suffered a failed spin brake motor (cracked housing). It's still a good machine apart from that, but not worth spending a $100 notes on for the new part let alone your time to fit it. Replaced the entire machine for a one owner 2nd hand but unused special for $150 (the people that brought it were setting up an air b-n-b type operation but a sudden sickness resulted in one owner passing away so the project was never completed, and they sold the 2nd set of everything off).

So the main LG 10Kg machine inside (this thing is a workhorse, one or two loads a day for I think 6 years so far) finally sprung a leak today, a bit of water draining into the basement area and much drama and excitement from the female residents of the household. Stop the machine and drain it, clean up the water and stop everything draining through the floor into the basement as per. Take the machine outside, open up, and look at that - the main drain hose has perished. Funny old thing, I know where there is a nearly new spare (the old LG machine which was the spare downstairs had this part replaced about 5 months before the spin brake motor failed and it's a fairly generic part on LG machines).

Take everything apart on the 10Kg unit, clean it up (absolutely feral inside, no wonder our clothes were not smelling the freshest - note to self clean machine more often!) and refit the replacement drain hose - good to go.

I really need to get rid of crap and have a serious de-hoard, but these sort of Sunday missions that save multiple hundred dollars do not help my cause!!!