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Lady Kenmore portable compact washing machine
Model 110-7460600
Vintage mid-1970s
It's me again. Now that I've got this old lady spinning, and the agitator usually works, but she's incredibly noisy. Maybe always so, and nowadays I'm just more sensitive to it, but I think it's actually worse. Anyway, it's bad enough that it could annoy the neighbors.
It's the kind of noise(s) you'd expect from a washing machine: geary sounds and like a huge tray of dishes rattling. Nothing that sounds "dangerous," just Very loud.
Nothing in the lower mechanicals rattles when I touch it, and the tub appears to be firmly tightened onto the spindle. Shaking and bounding the tub produces no rattle.
It suppose it's inside the transmission, in which case there's no hope of repairing that. But still a couple hopeful questions:
Model 110-7460600
Vintage mid-1970s
It's me again. Now that I've got this old lady spinning, and the agitator usually works, but she's incredibly noisy. Maybe always so, and nowadays I'm just more sensitive to it, but I think it's actually worse. Anyway, it's bad enough that it could annoy the neighbors.
It's the kind of noise(s) you'd expect from a washing machine: geary sounds and like a huge tray of dishes rattling. Nothing that sounds "dangerous," just Very loud.
Nothing in the lower mechanicals rattles when I touch it, and the tub appears to be firmly tightened onto the spindle. Shaking and bounding the tub produces no rattle.
It suppose it's inside the transmission, in which case there's no hope of repairing that. But still a couple hopeful questions:
- Is there any way of getting lubrication into the transmission, other than removing it?
- The racket continues even when the agitation has stopped and the water is discharging. I wouldn't think simply the pump could be making all this racket, and besides, I think the pump is plastic? What else continues to function unchanged once the water discharge starts?
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