Where do these parts inside water valve go?

Tyvm for your help mate . Worked a treat the orange seal belongs in the middle as you said 👍👍👍 Ty again

I wonder if the middle bit is an aerator? (mixes air and water together) - I have come across these in the outlet of mixer taps , the ones you get for kitchen sinks and that , create bubbles with the water as the water mixes with air - and possibly help to oxygenate / mix air with the water before it goes into the soap drawer (water Air helps mix the detergent more effectively ) as well as cutting down on water

Here is a mixer tap aerator :

Interesting theory Andy. I don't think it will help reduce water usage though as obviously washing machine takes in a specific amount of water but as you say does help reduce water usage in a water tap. I have to say that it does at least make some theoretical sense because apart from a filter and a flow restrictor I cannot think of any other thing necessary inside a water valve.

I must have a look on our new Samsung washer and see if there are any restrictors in that cold fill inlet valve on ours because the water pipe I am going to be linking it up to will be a low pressure supply from the cold water header tank up in the loft. - if we have got a restrictor in it I will have to see if it will come out

hello Andy - I trying to see if i have a water pressure restrictor in my machine if so i want to remove it , so i have undone the cold fill pipe and pulled out 1 filter and then there was another metal mesh filter.

If you look at the pic of my cold water valve does that look like there is a restrictor in there that I can pull out or is that actual middle bit part of the solenoid valve seal?

Thanks.

Hi Andy. It’s still in the valve with the rubber seal on. Use narrow nosed pliers to pull it out. It may be tight but should normally come out.

brilliant I will give that a go some other time (just pushed the machine under the worktop then you replied back LOL) and hopefully wont break it

Thanks for that.

so you see in the pic the hoover restrictor has a hole in the middle and the samsung one is blanked off that will have no issues on removing it , and it should still come out ok and work without it do you think?

Hi Andy. Yes the Hoover one is easy to remove with narrow nose pliers because you can slip one of the sides of the players into that whole. With the Samsung one, I would expect ordinary players would be better at gripping the protruding plastic in the centre. It's just whether or not they will fit inside the aperture of the valve. If it does not come out by any chance, then presumably removing the rubber washer may still help.

Bear in mind that flow restrictors are fitted to prevent problems if the water pressure is fairly high, so I only ever removed them in situations where people had very low water pressure. It did make a difference by the way.

Brilliant, thanks again Andy.

So, i got the pliers out today. Tugged at the purple plastic bit inside the valve and it was not budging at all. So I got a screwdriver where the rubber washer was and levered that out OK , so thats it, that was the restrictor then - now thats removed it does fill a little faster now so that's good now - turns out the middle purple bit was part of the valve itself

should imagine a job of the restrictor would also be to cut down on 'water hammer' in the mains water piping as well as stopping the leaks in the soap dispenser too Andy on high pressure water mains as the machine solenoid operates on and off (or open and closing) , would I be right in saying that?

Hi Andy. Leaks in soap dispenser are the main reason. I’ve never understood why they don’t have a proper seal on them. When Dustin made their washing machine they had one.

Water hammer might be a bonus though I’m not sure washing machine manufacturers would worry about that. Maybe though, if they get people blaming washing machine.