Washing machine not spinning

[Easy-X]

Dunno whether anyone else has had similar problems and can chip in...

My daughter's Zanussi has stopped working. It powers up, you can choose a program, the drain gurgles but it doesn't spin. Loads of YouTube videos suggest replacing the door switch
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[WD Forte]

bent sub frame?
sorry, thats all I got

Wouldn't a bad door switch just stop the machine?
( Edit: just had a quick gurgle out of curiosity and apparently
it can have an effect of preventing the spin cycle whilst allowing other cycles)

level sensor ? faulty pump not draining the feelthy water out?
I would assume it checks the level is low before starting the spin stage
I'd check/clean the pump and filter first they clog up easily
and check it actually pumps/drains properly
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bikers smell of wee

[MCN]

Pump can be tamperfered with usually via a wee door in the lower front.
They are not as complicated as motorbikes.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

If it’s overloaded or unbalanced it won’t turn, although you’d expect it to rotate once before stopping.

[Islander]

Check the filter.

[Easy-X]

"Not draining" sounds promising. Now I think on it I reset the machine so we could open the door... and of course my daughter bagged up the clothes for me to wash Anyhoo, she said there was still water in the machine so it makes sense if it's not draining it won't move onto the next step.

The bad new is there's no fluff filter on the front like my Bosch has. Apparently the design is such that it doesn't need one. Given I still hear it gurgling I might take a look at where the waste pipe goes in case the route is blocked. I shall investigate...

<edit> Tomorrow I'm gonna disconnect the waste pipe and stretch it over to the sink, run a drain cycle and see what the flow rate's like.
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[stinkwheel]

Bobby pin in the pump is the usual one on ours, you have to open the hatch at the bottom right, unscrew the plug, pull out the wee filter then fish the foreign object out of the pump impellar. Have towels on standby because there is usually a reasonable amount of water hanging about in the bottom when you undo the plug.

Also a blocked outflow pipe will do similar. There can just be a wad of lint stuck in there. There's usually a one way valve somewhere in the corrugated pipe running out of the back or in the drain pipe it flows into. It's usually disgusting and stinky but can generally be taken apart and cleaned out.
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[Easy-X]

[hellkat]

Do people still use bobby pins?
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[virus]

[to v or not to v]

[hellkat]

I mostly use ribbons and those alice-band sort of things to keep my hair at bay.

It so resembles a sheeps-arse in its curly rambunctious intensity that bobby pins just don't hold anything in place for much more than five minutes.

[EDIT] : I know fuck all about washing machines. I used to have to call out the guy to fix them all the bloody time when I worked in the knocking shop, always washing fucking towels and bed linen (obvs) and I was NOT prodding about in the fucking lint lobby for god knows what might be blocking the pipes. Couldnt afford to have the w.m. out of use for a single day in that place So now, with my own machine, there's only me ... so maybe one or two washes a fortnight (one whites, one or two of colours) If mine do ^^that^^ I just give up and buy another one.
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[MCN]

If its a Zanusi (An Appliance of Science ) then there's a fancy door seal that stops any accoutrements reaching the pump.

Could be simply that the pump motor is phuked.
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[duhawkz]

My hoover washer was doing a similar thing this morning.

There was a filter on the front of it, like a big drain plug.

I took that out and it was full of muck, once I'd cleaned it the washer started working again
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[blurredman]

My dryer breaks a belt almost once a year.
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[Easy-X]

[MCN]

[WD Forte]

If its a frequently used family machine its well worth checking the motor
brushes and commutator while yer in there.

A lot of these machines use what's often called a 'universal motor'
so brushes are easily sourced.
Hard worked machines can sometimes have the commutator pads start to lift off
the rotor due to heat and this can chew away at the the brushes as it self destructs.
Mine did that a few years ago, it started with a ticking sound as it spun the drum over
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[MCN]

Spun or Span?
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[WD Forte]

Spun
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[sickpup]

Ask her if she is missing the underwire from a bra, it's in the pump.

[Easy-X]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

So now we’ll never know.

[stinkwheel]

Their wizard wheeze of not putting in an inspection cover to allow foreign bodies to be removed from the pump worked then.

I'd have replaced my current machine three times by now if it was similar.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Nobby the Bastard]