Washing Machine won’t spin

[Ian8836]

Hi,

Our Samsung Ecobubble has decided to stop working. It seems to fill and drain fine, but won’t go any further once it needs to spin.

It doesn’t sound very healthy.

I’ve uploaded a video here trying to run a calibration cycle so you can see/hear:

Does anyone know what this could be and if it’s worth repairing?

Thanks!

 

[Mottie]

I don’t know how old it is but whenever we have had a machine wash but not spin, it’s always been the brushes. I’ve changed them three times on various Hotpoint models.

 

[foxhole]

As Mottie said often brushes but new machines won’t spin with unbalanced loads so maybe reduce load .
Check machine is level .

 

[Mottie]

As Mottie said often brushes but new machines won’t spin with unbalanced loads so maybe reduce load .
Check machine is level .

Now you say that, I remember I washed the big cushion from our dogs bed the other week. Well, I trod it clean in the bath, like treading grapes. Anyway, I wrung it out as best I could and put it in the machine to spin it out but all it did was go round and round really slow and would just not go into the spin mode. I had to soak a bath towel and bung that into the machine to get it to balance and that did the trick.

 

[flameport]

Does anyone know what this could be and if it’s worth repairing?

Noise just sounds like the drain pump, nothing unexpected there.

Most new machines have induction motors, there are no brushes to change, and if it's not moving at all it's likely to be failed electronics on the PCB.
The days of cheap washing machine repair are over, just as with most other appliances.

 

[Ian8836]

Thanks for the replies.

It has now magically started working again.

Tried everything earlier and nothing worked. Just tried it again and it worked first time.

 

[Mottie]

With most repairs, I tend to follow this flow-chart.