VIDEO: Avoiding bearing damage to the washing machine

Causes of bearing damage on the machine

Some washing machines are equipped with cheap and poor bearings, which of course quickly leads to bearing damage. Keep the following in mind:

• The drum in the washing machine is attached to an axis of rotation on only one side. This sits in a warehouse that the drum has to carry. Since there is no counter bearing on the other side of the drum, this bearing is heavily loaded.
• Washing machines with a vertical drum have to constantly lift the laundry against gravity, which naturally leads to heavy loads on the warehouse. These forces are very high, especially when spinning. You are probably familiar with the old spin dryers, in which the laundry was put in from above and which rotated horizontally. With these devices, bearing damage was very rare.

Grease leakage from the bearing of the Washing machine Incidentally, it also leads to bearing damage quickly.

Avoiding damage to the washing machine bearing

Of course, there is little you can do if oil leaks from the bearing. This leads to bearing damage on the washing machine after a short time. However, the bearings are not very expensive and replacing the bearing in good time prevents not only bearing damage, but also oil stains on the laundry. You can do something about the other causes of bearing damage.

• Bearing damage happens when the washing machine is used. The less you use them, the longer the storage will last. If you avoid unnecessary washes by only starting the machine when it is full, you are helping to ensure that your washing machine does not suffer bearing damage as quickly as possible.
• Imbalance is the greatest load on the bearing. If you frequently have a severe unbalance during spinning, bearing damage is inevitable on the washing machine. Stop the machine immediately if you notice that the washing machine begins to vibrate or tumble while spinning.
• Avoid imbalance by loading the washing machine correctly. Too little laundry, individual large items of laundry in an almost empty machine always cause imbalance and imbalance leads to bearing damage.
• Do not overload the washing machine. Overloading a washing machine also leads to bearing damage. Never force the laundry into the machine, it must lie loosely in it. If you clutter the machine properly, the laundry will not get clean and the warehouse will be overloaded. For synthetic fabrics, load the washing machine normally so that the laundry lies loosely in the drum, and then remove 2 to 3 items before starting the washing machine. Otherwise you have overloaded the machine.
• Button pillows and duvet covers before putting them in the washing machine. A pillowcase that can be felt when To wash with laundry, sits as a compact ball in the machine. Apart from the fact that the laundry does not get clean this way, this leads to unbalance during spinning and sooner or later to bearing damage. For the same reason, you should only equip laundry nets with a few and light textiles.
• Reduce the spin speed whenever possible. If you dry the laundry on the line, you do not need high spin speeds. These only make sense if you then dry the laundry in the tumble dryer because they save energy. On the line, it is not important that the laundry is almost dry when you hang it up.

With a little care you can avoid premature bearing damage to the washing machine. Even the cheapest washing machine stocks can last 10 years. Bearing damage after 3 years is not normal and you can easily avoid it.