Did you look online for information on the make and model? With ours, it
was easy to find out how to open the top. On it, there are 2 clips on
the front between the top and the front panel. Pushing in with a putty
knife releases the clips and then one can pivot the top upwards out of
the way and access screws that hold the front panel onto the side
panels. Remove one screw on each side at the top and the front panel
then tilts out and can be removed. That opens up the washer to the point
where most of it is accessible.
I had an old friend, who has since passed on at the age of 93, who was
quite proud of the fact that they were still using a dryer that they had
purchased in the 40's. He had replaced bits of it a number of times and
retrofitted newer parts to take the place of items no longer available.
It had become a challenge for him to keep it going as long as he could.
I believe it outlived him.
One of the concerns with longevity of our washer is that it is rusting
in the bottom. I was not going to mess around with paint so I sprayed
Boeshield B9 (I think that is the name of the stuff) on the rusty spots
in the bottom in an effort to slow down the rusting. I have used it on
things in the garage and it seems to work well. That is good as the
stuff is expensive.
RB
On 18/02/2020 3:08 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote:
I am painting and putting new tile down in my laundry room so I have
been moving the W/D around. The washer cabinet has come undone from
the top, which appears to have all the guts bolted to it somehow. The
big sheet metal screws that hold the cabinet to the top, screwed in
from underneath, are all rusted out where they screw into the top.
This washer (sears) is probably at least 20yo, maybe older, I don't
recall when I bought it, might have been when we moved to Houston or
maybe we brought it there from the old house so it could be going on
30yo. Rather than fooling with it (and I am not even sure of how I
would screw something inside the cabinet like that) I think I am just
going to use some metal plates like for joining wood rafters and
joists and what not and screw the top to the sides and be done with
it. I have some in the garage I don't care what it looks like as
long as it washes clothes. Probably will get me another 20 years from
the thing.
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