James Pham
04-02-2004, 03:25 PM
Mark and Ttles,
Do you rebuild the timer for W125 ? Or do you know if we can buy timer parts ?
I called 2 places advertised timer-rebuilt in The Journal, one charged $89, another charged $120 plus shipping while the brand new timer is about $179 ea.
I have 8 W125s -8 yrs old- and from last year until now 5 of them, one by one the timer failed. All give the same symptom: machine tries hardly but fails to reverse in wash and rinse cycle, washes one way then stays still the next. I replaced them all with new timers.
Now I have 5 old timers to play with. Curiously, I take one apart to see what is and how it works inside. There are 18 contactors with their 'lifters'. (Lifters (or pusher what you call it) engage to the wheel cam, when the cam runs it raises the lifters to make electrical contact). All are in good safe but 2 are very bad. Their 'lifter' legs are ground off more than 1/16" by wheel cam.so they don't lift high enough to make contact.( In fact the cam made a 1/16 deep slot on the lifter leg).
That is easy to understand. Because other lifters are only used one to4 times per machine cycle, but the lifters to make contacts for changing direction work a lot harder, how many times per cycle you figure out.
So if your W125s are 7-8 yrs old, there a chance your timers are going to have this symptom. My other 3 machines timers will fail very soon, I know.
I used lifters from 1 timer to fix the other 4 . All put back in machines and ran good. Now I have 4 back up ones.I would say I repair, not rebuild them. They might last for another 3-5 years.
The hard thing is to remove the circuit board. I bought a de-solder tool at Radio Shack for $9.79 and tried on the first one. The others I brought to a electronic shop for $7 ea to remove the PCB, and clean. After that it took 5 minutes to change 2 lifters.
Do you rebuild the timer for W125 ? Or do you know if we can buy timer parts ?
I called 2 places advertised timer-rebuilt in The Journal, one charged $89, another charged $120 plus shipping while the brand new timer is about $179 ea.
I have 8 W125s -8 yrs old- and from last year until now 5 of them, one by one the timer failed. All give the same symptom: machine tries hardly but fails to reverse in wash and rinse cycle, washes one way then stays still the next. I replaced them all with new timers.
Now I have 5 old timers to play with. Curiously, I take one apart to see what is and how it works inside. There are 18 contactors with their 'lifters'. (Lifters (or pusher what you call it) engage to the wheel cam, when the cam runs it raises the lifters to make electrical contact). All are in good safe but 2 are very bad. Their 'lifter' legs are ground off more than 1/16" by wheel cam.so they don't lift high enough to make contact.( In fact the cam made a 1/16 deep slot on the lifter leg).
That is easy to understand. Because other lifters are only used one to4 times per machine cycle, but the lifters to make contacts for changing direction work a lot harder, how many times per cycle you figure out.
So if your W125s are 7-8 yrs old, there a chance your timers are going to have this symptom. My other 3 machines timers will fail very soon, I know.
I used lifters from 1 timer to fix the other 4 . All put back in machines and ran good. Now I have 4 back up ones.I would say I repair, not rebuild them. They might last for another 3-5 years.
The hard thing is to remove the circuit board. I bought a de-solder tool at Radio Shack for $9.79 and tried on the first one. The others I brought to a electronic shop for $7 ea to remove the PCB, and clean. After that it took 5 minutes to change 2 lifters.