and i agree after looking at it the spider isn't cracked after all.Ĭombo, thanks especially for your info as always! didn't know that about the motors. The bronze seal area is fine on my shaft. Seals and bearings are sold as a unit on e bay. The main reason i want to fix it is i like it's smaller capacity compared to the bigger front loaders! Almost every FL washer is made with these two parts touching and on MT Neptune's where they have thin nylon spacers they still suffer corroded and BROKEN spiders I have never seen any evidence of corrosion from the aluminum spider touching the SS tub. Cold water washing, too little and cheap detergent, no LCB used, and compounded by excessive use of fabric softener. I have yet to see a broken spider on a FL washer that was a surprise once you take apart the machine and see the abuse it suffered at the hands of the owner. That said the one Peter pictured is not severely corroded and if cleaned up properly and if the machine is used properly it will likely NEVER fail. They improved them on the next generation of FL washers and I have yet to see one break. Several different manufactures tried different painted coatings on the inside of pumps to help extent their life, but we still saw badly corroded parts occurring and of course the real solution was to make such parts out of various different plastics which makes them last forever.įrigidaire had far more broken spiders than most FL washers because they were so THIN on the small door machines. I am not sure that power coating would do all that much good based on what I saw when pot metal and aluminum parts were common on washers back in the mid to late 60s.
Yes Phil I do think that the visible lines are just mold lines.
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