Door mechanism.

Your reasons are completely valid, and I respect that.

I also acknowledge that even I despise people who are just outright careless and just do things the easy way and never care about safety.

I'd have to admit that in my intentions I might've just been rushing things and that is very bad and I did not display any sort of reasonability.

I'll just shove the washing machine away until I find a spare part to replace the door mechanism.

I just fear that it might be the circuit board.... oh well, i guess we will see.

Thanks for the advice. I appreciate it.

Kind regards.

Vilian

Hello. If you are capable of bypassing a lock then fitting a new one would be much easier. Have you thought about trying to find a spare part? The problem with having a potentially dangerous appliance in the home is that you never know what circumstances may happen whereby someone who does not know ends up using the washing machine or somehow a child ends up visiting. I appreciate you don't need preaching to but those are the things to bear in mind.

I'm not sure about the resistance across live and neutral. It's not something that as an engineer I've ever measured. I always just measured to see if power was getting to a specific place, or that there is a neutral return to the plug, or across particular parts.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that I did all the correct things.

At first, I checked the manual for the error code the machine was displaying.

After I opened the door lock mechanism, the metal that is supposed to connect to the underneath connector when the bimetal strip heats up wasn't making proper conntact. After I scrubbed it off a bit with a sharp box opener, I tested with the multimeter and it was all fine. I put it back together and i tested it out. ~ nothing.

Later i found out that for some reason the bimetal strip is not heating up, even thought it was connected to neutral and live.

So my only solution would be to bypass the lock. I have no children, so It is of no concern to me. I also do realize and acknowledge that it is extremly dangerous to do this. However, I do not want to pay 100 bucks for a technician, or else throw the machien away just for this little issue.

Also, I just noticed a few hours ago (before making my previous post), that the resistance across the Live and nutural is 0 ohms (I am talking about the lock, not the wires themselfs). So would that actually mean it's more of circuit failure?