@blr_p you had earlier mentioned in another thread Vanish powder can be used for descaling the WM.
Vanish is for cleaning. Descaling is removing hard water deposits. Descaling is not cleaning. You can use citric acid or the regular descalers which use sulphamic acid.
Can we use Vanish liquid for the same?
No, use powder because the cleaning ingredient we need for the job is percarbonate which if you look up the
ingredients you can see only the powder has. They call it sodium carbonate peroxide.
The liquid does
not contain percarbonate and will be useless for the purpose of washing machine cleaning.
Ideally, I recommend the Labogens Percarbonate which is pure. Vanish uses less than 50% of percarbonate maybe closer to 25%
The only reason to mention Vanish is it's easier to find. If you use Vanish powder then add some fabric or towels otherwise it will foam up like crazy.
I use about 3 clean mops and a couple of old face towels. 0.5kg is enough. Use clean fabric not dirty as that way more of the product will be used to clean the machine instead of the cloth.
Had a look up my new front loader. This Samsung machine doesn't have a sealed drum.
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Those steel nuts are removable. That should open up the tub.
I think bearings and spyder are individually replaceable too.
The thing with these videos is we don't know when the model they repair came out. Older ones were not sealed. So this is great news that until now your model is still not sealed as confirmed by you.
Following youtube video shows another samsung machine having removable spyder and bearings. It has similar structure like mine although mine is bigger. But tub look the same.
Did you see the spider he pulled out? It's made of thin gauge steel and has completely disintegrated That's the usual slam against Samsung.
The LG ones tend to be a bit thicker. A Samsung with 1400 rpm will also have thicker drum support than ones with slower spin speeds but they
come with touch panels which you don't want.
Some observations,
- It's not a direct drive like LG. As you can see, the motor is mounted beneath the tub and there's a belt drive. Still, no clutch and no gears means the motor can be called inverter. It's a brushless DC motor and RPM is controlled by PWM just like CPU cooler fan.
- We had 2 cycles so far and it has given much better wash than my own hand wash. I'm not bad at hand washing. I have been washing my clothes using my own hands from many years. The machine has heating and it has a lot of time. It wins.
- Front loaders do bloody work. For a hand-washer and top loader guy, I'm having hard time to understand how could it clean this effectively using so little water. Had I not heard that front loaders use less water, I would have assumed my machine is broken and returned it.
A friend told me in the early 90s some jobs are better handled by machines
@tech.addict has this classic line that he did not know what clean meant until he got a front loader.
- Soaking time varies depending upon some other factors but it's around 30-40 minutes. The actual soaking happens in the middle of the wash. I was wrongly presuming that soaking would take place before prewash.
Interesting, so it does a prewash and then soaks followed by the main wash? This should be effective as the dirt will have loosened up.
- One of my cycle was all frills. 60 degrees water, Full 60gm detergent dose, prewash and soaking. It gave never-seen-before clean wash but my brand new jeans pissed a lot blue on other clothes. I was slightly expecting that. But now I understand that I don't need to use 60 degrees of water and certainly not the 60gm of detergent. lol. Anyway, no harm is done as other clothes weren't important.
Some time back I read someone say if you run the machine with nothing and notice the water gets foamy it means you're using too much detergent meaning there is detergent buildup in the machine. This you want to remove with citric acid as it coats the drum support and can weaken it with time. Maybe dissolve is a better word as you could see in the repair video. Citric acid is quite slow at dissolving detergent. Sometimes I need to run at least 4-5 tub cleans for as many days to see a difference in foam. Not found anything better than citric acid for the job to date.
The standard dose is a scoop which is 60gms. I use 20-30gm with normally soiled clothes for a full load as my water is soft. If water is harder or clothes heavily soiled then use more. I use a 10gm scoop as it's hard to eyeball quantity with those scoops. as far as liquid detergents go, there is one exception. Micro fibre towels. Only when I do a load of them do I use liquid surf. Around 15ml measured in a cough syrup cap. Apparently, builders in powder detergents are not good for micro fibre anything.
For reference, lightly soiled means it was in the cupboard for 6 months. If it touched your skin even briefly then it's normally soiled. 15 min quick wash is for lightly soiled and never for normally soiled. I usually wash new items in the quick wash with a little white cloth to test if its colour fast.
Since you use jeans and know a thing about them I will still mention that you zip them and wash them inside out. The rivets on the jeans should not be clanging around the drum as it can scratch or cause damage to the paddles and then you have something sharp with which to tear clothes in subsequent washes.
- The machine hardly uses any electricity unless I'm using the heater. With heater the power consumption can stay up to 2k watts for some time. But other than that, the washing hardly needs 40w and even top speed spinning won't need beyond 250w. All frills cycle consumed about 0.7 units. Normal non-heated wash shouldn't consume more than 0.1 units.
The heater turns on for about 5 minutes for a 40-degree wash. Otherwise, in agreement with your consumption figures for the kind of wash selected.
- The buttons aren't good. These aren't touch screen like nor they are any tactile. I don't know what they are but they need very-very precise press. It doesn't register light touches or heavy presses. It's very precise on what it wants. More than 50% touches are being missed. It's going to take some used to. LG touch panel must be a lot better at usability.
No complaints with mine. Usually gets it the first time. But it's a button press. No touch on mine.
