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Old 02-15-2020, 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by bobtodrick View Post
It’s 20 years old. New washers start at $450 (which it sounds like you’ve spent on repairs). Might be time to bite the bullet.
As old as it is you’re going to spend $75 (or whatever) on repairs... and six months down the road something else craps out.
It was a $800-900 dryer... fixing myself has been at a fraction of a repair guy. Plus I get personal satisfaction learning about the innards and fixing them.

Relatively speaking I have saved money and kept an appliance out of the landfill for 11 years from first breakdown.

I get frustrated that large appliances have become throw away versus repair due to costs and quality of product.

I have to think outside of major electrical or control panel problems I should be able to repair for ever.
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