A central Minnesota mother of five says her Whirlpool Duet washing machine exploded during the spin cycle, firing ball bearings and other parts at her, knocking her unconscious and giving her a concussion. kare11.tv/2hxCOZN
OMG, now a washing machine? I’ve been seeing stories of refrigerators blowing up like bombs lately. Thank God that sweet young mother is ok despite what she went through.
@@whirlpool_addict_ that does have anything to do with an out of balance situation, so,e of the older models had a bump switch, new speed queens do but most don’t.
Same thing happened to my Hotpoint washer 6 years ago. It was washing a small load of kitchen towels. I heared a very weird high pitched noise coming from the washer as it was spinning on full speed and then just a huge boom. It literally sounded like a car had crashed into my house. The washer was in pieces, the door was on the other side of the room and the whole front and top panels were bent and cracked. I've never seen anything like that before in my life.
I'VE never heard of this happening in the past! These appliances are made and assembled in China or Mexico? When everything was made in the USA, I don't recall hearing about things like this happening. MAYBE we should go back to hand-washing.
This in the UK? They had a batch of exploding hotpoints sold between 2007-2009. There were a batch of drums where the seam would rip apart at max spin.
@@whichwasher2007 No, I got that washer around 2012-2013 in Poland. The technician that came to survey the damage said that he has never seen something like that before. It looked like the main cause was the bearings falling apart and the drum becoming detatched at very high speed.
@@whichwasher2007they are in fact big. I guess they sit somewhere in the drum to keep it in balance (doesn't have anything to do with the rear bearings).
My washer was out of balance & knocking loudly. I went to readjust the clothes. The front was sucked in like if you sucked the air out of a plastic bottle. I've never seen anything like it. I am renting. & afraid to tell the landlord because I thinking they will tell me I had too many clothes in it (it is a new machine).
Probably a good idea to know where electrical breaker box is, so a person can shut off laundry room equipment remotely. Usually breakers are in Garage or basement. Any opinions?
Overloading the machine has its consequences,,, The machine has to have been making a lot of noise on spin before this,, Noisy machines mean you have a problem! Stop 🛑 using the machine, common sense??? I pray for all who creates this mistake, may you escape without harm..
pfft, the dryer is fine, somebody just wants a new dryer. BTW, the washer is supposed to be installed on the left side. And it's funny how after all these washers "explode", whatever they had thrown in there to blow it up just disappears. The washer must have teleported the offending item to another dimension or something. Or maybe a mini black hole formed inside the washer sucking the clothes out.
LMAF This comes from not doing the maintenance on the washing machine. I’m a female and I know that you have to pay attention to the sound that you hear on a washing machine you don’t put heavy items inside of it overloading it. And you don’t put heavy rugs in the washing machine and the moment that you hear it whining on spin cycle you don’t use it or knocking while washing. You’re right somebody wants a new washing machine. If she didn’t take care of the maintenance on that one. She definitely one on the second one. I have taken many washing machines apart. My Samsung is seven years old and the moment that I hear a whining sound or it sounds loud I take it apart myself and order the parts she probably had a drum seal Bearing go bad from overloading it and she continued to use the washing machine. It knocked her unconscious😒 she’s an excellent actor Hollywood needs to hire her. You are definitely right.
@@mosell2006 I agree. I only want to add that the typical reason these modern washers explode is 1) they do spin faster and 2) some people have things like that bed-wetter bedding, or some other item that is impermeable to water and when the spin cycle tries to spin water thorough that solid membrane, the water just creates a huge imbalance. Normally the computer will catch it, but if somehow it balances that water up to a high speed, then suddenly the water gets flung off, the material opposite the water that was counter balancing it, suddenly becomes what causes a high speed imbalance and you cannot just stop the machine. It's like those videos where they throw a brick or something in a jet engine.
@@l337pwnage a washer doesn't need to spin at warp speed, my Maytag Centennial gets the clothes nice and dry with its modest spin speed, there's a reason it's only needed maintenance and a tuneup its whole life
Bring back the old dependable direct drive top load washers and send all of these he. washers to the scrap pile. Then this will no longer be an issue. The only issue is will be how to handle the amazement of really clean clothes in 30 minutes and a machine that will provide decades of reliable service without endangering anyone including children.
