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I was able to resurrect my clothes washer about an hour ago, for about $.50. I knew I'd be able to fix it regardless but I figured I'd be modeling some plastic cogs and pawls for printing in CF nylon. I'm passable in tinkerCAD but these are some really funky parts so I figured it would be a day or two of printing, resizing, and reprinting to get exact, between work shifts.
Instead, two screws backed out of a plastic housing and all it took was a dab of loctite and retightening the screws. What I figured would be a multi hour process turned into a five minute permanent fix instead and now I can wash clothes while sitting on my ass at home instead of hauling a weeks worth of work clothes and my kids clothes to be washed at the laundromat half an hour away. It's almost like I got my whole evening back.
I'm very impressed! That's like a quantifiable QOL change ๐คฉ
Edit: sorry for double reply, for whatever reason the thread started sorting by new so I thought my original comment was a top level comment not a reply ://////
I'm really glad I got it fixed cheap, I'm already like 35 bucks overdrawn and wasn't looking forward to plunging into the negative numbers quite so far. I get paid in two pays and I'm kinda hoping to coast by til then. This actually makes that a whole lot better, as now I'm not factoring in $30-40 in laundry plus the $35 overdraft fee. I'm also on "E" so it would also be whatever gas I need to get plus that overdraft fee. I drive a company truck for work and my kids ride a school bus to school so barring an emergency I don't need to drive until I get paid and there's food at home, so I might get lucky and stay in my banks $45 overdraft grace where they don't ding you for it. This really was fortuitous.
Don't worry about the mess up. I'm not worried. Thanks for the post!