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  • whitegoods_engineer
    whitegoods_engineer Posts: 636 Forumite
    Simple bearing test, open door, push down hard on the drum with palm of your hand whilst moving from left to right. Any rumbling felt means bearings compromised by ingress of water (rusting)

    Sounds like beginnings of bearing failure, but impossible to diagnose via written description.
  • raddy59
    raddy59 Posts: 338 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    No more grinding noise when i move the drum as suggested.

    Can't get the back off becaue it has those 'funny' star shaped screw heads. can I get bits for those?
  • ormus
    ormus Posts: 42,714 Forumite
    yes. best way is to buy those cheap sets of bits.
    most of em contain a selection of funny star bits.
    Get some gorm.
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