Hi everyone-
Well the saga of the broken washing machine was solved -- one part did the trick thank goodness. The part came yesterday thank you -- it was a direct replacement for the new part from the manufactor. Not that I bought the part from Whirlpool -- but one of its suppliers.
Anyway putting back the locking mechanism was easy -- the washer was together with the exception of the front seal with the retaining clip.
It hooked in easily, 3 screws, 1 retaining clip later and a simple test and the washing machine was fixed.
Wife is super happy and now that our children have product more laundry we can now attack the laundry to get it clean again.
Having fun....
Friday, February 27, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Haven't Posted for a while....Whirlpool Duet HT Door locking problems
Hi everyone-
Well I haven't posted for a while. But washer troubles have gotten me to get writing again. We have a Whirlpool Duet HT washing machine. It works wonderfully with the exception of a nagging door locking problem. It happened once before that the door would not unlock. Then this time even after repeating the spin/drain cycle and cycling the power nothing seemed to unlock the door.
Locating the service manual on the web -- thank you!!! -- it showed me how to remove the lower panel -- after we placed several 2x4s under each of the legs because it is in a drain pan. Then pull on the pear shaped manual release pin -- then the door will open. Wrong. So after many attempts to open the door -- the guy approach finally won -- pulling and tugging on the door with the pin down until it finally opened. And of course our last load of laundry was in there wet. At least it was our last load.
A quick order on the Internet for the part.
And hopefully by Saturday we will have a working washing machine.
Word to the wise -- you only have to take off the retaining ring on the seal near the door -- you don't have to take apart the entire washing machine to get at the plugs. The service manual doesn't really say that clearly. Oh well -- it gave me time to really appreciate how nice the machine is put together.
Having fun.....
Well I haven't posted for a while. But washer troubles have gotten me to get writing again. We have a Whirlpool Duet HT washing machine. It works wonderfully with the exception of a nagging door locking problem. It happened once before that the door would not unlock. Then this time even after repeating the spin/drain cycle and cycling the power nothing seemed to unlock the door.
Locating the service manual on the web -- thank you!!! -- it showed me how to remove the lower panel -- after we placed several 2x4s under each of the legs because it is in a drain pan. Then pull on the pear shaped manual release pin -- then the door will open. Wrong. So after many attempts to open the door -- the guy approach finally won -- pulling and tugging on the door with the pin down until it finally opened. And of course our last load of laundry was in there wet. At least it was our last load.
A quick order on the Internet for the part.
And hopefully by Saturday we will have a working washing machine.
Word to the wise -- you only have to take off the retaining ring on the seal near the door -- you don't have to take apart the entire washing machine to get at the plugs. The service manual doesn't really say that clearly. Oh well -- it gave me time to really appreciate how nice the machine is put together.
Having fun.....
Monday, October 06, 2008
What a summer ...
With the passing of the fall equinox I was reminded how much work we really got done this past summer or at least from the spring equinox to the fall equinox.
April -- House Painted
May -- Deck stained
June -- Swing set built and twins turn two
July -- sister-in-law wedding
August -- Twins new room
Sept -- Baby Prep
Okay so some will say cost -- how much did all of this cost -- much less than you think. The house was painted by professionals. My house is much too tall to paint safely. Besides the even cleaned the gutters :-)
Deck stained well that was only two gallons of stain to paint the deck. And we did it ourselves.
The swing set -- now here is an awesome deal. Our neighbor knew that we where going to start to look for a swing set for the twins. Well a friend of theirs had a relatively new cedar swing set. Well cedar never really goes bad. It weathers -- but it too can be stained to look brand new. The wood was in great shape. The swings needed replacing and the bolts needed replacing but those are really easy to do. I found a company on-line called boltdepot.com which had every bolt I needed to replace the bolts and then some. The swing set parts which needed to be replaced came from an online company called playsetparts.com. Even a new canopy came without problems. They even called to make sure the canopy was made correctly before they ordered. Simply awesome.
Sister-in-law wedding was awesome. We had so much fun being involved and where happy to see them married.
The new "big girl room" for the twins. Well that was just moving furniture out, painting the walls, putting in new furniture - most of it obtained from other relatives and then calling it their own.
Then the new baby the end of September. Wow.
Six months and things really change quickly.
Have fun....
April -- House Painted
May -- Deck stained
June -- Swing set built and twins turn two
July -- sister-in-law wedding
August -- Twins new room
Sept -- Baby Prep
Okay so some will say cost -- how much did all of this cost -- much less than you think. The house was painted by professionals. My house is much too tall to paint safely. Besides the even cleaned the gutters :-)
Deck stained well that was only two gallons of stain to paint the deck. And we did it ourselves.
The swing set -- now here is an awesome deal. Our neighbor knew that we where going to start to look for a swing set for the twins. Well a friend of theirs had a relatively new cedar swing set. Well cedar never really goes bad. It weathers -- but it too can be stained to look brand new. The wood was in great shape. The swings needed replacing and the bolts needed replacing but those are really easy to do. I found a company on-line called boltdepot.com which had every bolt I needed to replace the bolts and then some. The swing set parts which needed to be replaced came from an online company called playsetparts.com. Even a new canopy came without problems. They even called to make sure the canopy was made correctly before they ordered. Simply awesome.
Sister-in-law wedding was awesome. We had so much fun being involved and where happy to see them married.
The new "big girl room" for the twins. Well that was just moving furniture out, painting the walls, putting in new furniture - most of it obtained from other relatives and then calling it their own.
Then the new baby the end of September. Wow.
Six months and things really change quickly.
Have fun....
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Nathan is HOME!
Hi everyone-
Well Nathan is HOME!
He came home to our house tonight. What a ride -- we had everyone in the car. He passed his car seat challenge. Now as worried parents we have to raise him without the use of a monitor to make sure his heart rate/breathing/O2 sat are fine....gee just like every other parent out there.
Speaking of car -- it took me over an hour to reconfigure the Toyota Sienna to get the correct layout to work. Not that the car doesn't have the room to seat 7 people confortably -- no I just needed to figure out the flow of children getting into and out of a car.
Here's to a fun childhood.
have fun...
Well Nathan is HOME!
He came home to our house tonight. What a ride -- we had everyone in the car. He passed his car seat challenge. Now as worried parents we have to raise him without the use of a monitor to make sure his heart rate/breathing/O2 sat are fine....gee just like every other parent out there.
Speaking of car -- it took me over an hour to reconfigure the Toyota Sienna to get the correct layout to work. Not that the car doesn't have the room to seat 7 people confortably -- no I just needed to figure out the flow of children getting into and out of a car.
Here's to a fun childhood.
have fun...
Friday, October 03, 2008
If you passed Elementary School you can read this blog....
I'm not so sure that reflects poorly or not......
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Nathan first ride
Hi everyone-
We have left Winchester Hospital -- not because they are the best hospital in the world - but because we need to be able to see Nathan without driving 45 minutes. Yeah little tough on the wallet considering the price of gasoline this morning $3.55.
Mommy is doing fine. We just need to keep her BP down closer to the normal side.
Nathan is being transported by Ambulance to the closer hospital with one of his favorite nurses from Winchester.
Thank you everyone for helping us. Now with all of our children we have experienced everything Winchester has to offer. Yeah!
Have fun....
We have left Winchester Hospital -- not because they are the best hospital in the world - but because we need to be able to see Nathan without driving 45 minutes. Yeah little tough on the wallet considering the price of gasoline this morning $3.55.
Mommy is doing fine. We just need to keep her BP down closer to the normal side.
Nathan is being transported by Ambulance to the closer hospital with one of his favorite nurses from Winchester.
Thank you everyone for helping us. Now with all of our children we have experienced everything Winchester has to offer. Yeah!
Have fun....
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Nathan ....
Okay little man -- we decided to stay with our friends some more. Nathan had an episode this evening.
Mommy however is improving -- YEAH! She is now getting off the Mg and we will be moving Nathan to a hospital closer to us as soon as Mommy gets discharged.
Coming home will be a challenge.
One good thing - this boy is a chow hound. His is nursing really well. Yeah for small successes.
We also figured out that he is having these O2 saturation episodes when he is sleeping very deeply.
Have fun...
Mommy however is improving -- YEAH! She is now getting off the Mg and we will be moving Nathan to a hospital closer to us as soon as Mommy gets discharged.
Coming home will be a challenge.
One good thing - this boy is a chow hound. His is nursing really well. Yeah for small successes.
We also figured out that he is having these O2 saturation episodes when he is sleeping very deeply.
Have fun...
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