When the washing machine doesn't work.

We all have our favourite toys on our Bushtrackers. Some prefer Satellite TV, others breadmakers, Hi Fi, etc. My wife’s favourite is our built-in Lemair washing machine at the rear of our en-suite. It also doubles-up as a dirty clothes receptacle, and when full, a couple of washes have us clean & on the way again. It means that where ever we are, providing water is available, we can use the inverter to run it. When we are in civilisation it saves queuing-up at the caravan park to wait for availability of a machine. We also have small rotary clothes line that attaches to the A frame, and a pull-out line inside the van. When off road, we can use the WM in the morning, & fold up & put away clean & dry clothing when we stop in the afternoon. ---GREAT!!!

We all know the effects of corrugations, you know when the lids come off the mustard and the cocktail onions in the frig, and the screws that vibrate out & let the microwave make contact with the floor, and the top coming off the Thetford cassette ----YUK!!!

When this happened, a joyous cleanup resulted, and the rinsed-out cleaning items needed a bath. The Lemair filled up OK, makes all the familiar sounds, but the agitator doesn’t rotate. The spin doesn’t work either, only the fill & empty functions work!

Out comes the WM and surprise; underneath the machine are lots of missing sox, handkerchiefs, knickers etc. Corrugations also shake dirty clothes out of the tub, down inside the washing machine to the floor.

Anyhow, I found a singlet had wound itself around the motor pulley and had jammed the works.

Simple repair, remove the offending piece of underwear and re-tighten the drive belt, and we were away again, and the smelly things are no more.

Some of the joys of travelling on the brown stuff. – We still love it

Neil & Pat