Shoutout to the old Maytag Neptune I finally retired after 15 years of service calls

Cleaned out my van last night and counted 37 different Neptune washer motor couplers I've replaced over the years, a number that really hit home how much simpler some of those older direct-drive units were to work on compared to today's boards and sensors.

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morgan_ward614d ago

Counted 37 couplers? That's wild, I can't even picture that many of the same part just rolling around in one van. Makes you wonder how many trips you made back to the supply house for those things over a decade and a half. The direct drive stuff really was a different world, you could actually fix things without a computer. What was the weirdest thing you ever found stuck in one of those old Neptunes?

oliver2423d ago

Just read an article about how those old direct-drive motors had maybe three moving parts total, makes the coupler job seem almost relaxing compared to now. @morgan_ward61, the weirdest thing I ever heard about was a guy finding a full set of plastic army men melted to the tub, must have been in a kid's pocket for months. Carrying that many spare parts really shows how they built stuff to be fixed back then, even if it was the same fix over and over.