Daughter visited us last Christmas "bought some washing down if thats OK?" - yeah no problem. Put it in the washing machine and done a wash . She takes her washing out and says "oh thats strange the clasp part is missing off me bra!" - Oh I says I bet its come off in the machine somewhere "thats OK" she says "it was an old one, don't worry about it, I will get another one"
Well I worried about it because it wasnt inside the drum. and i thought about it stuck somewhere between inner and outer wash drum and what damage it could do ,, or be doing!
Since Christmas I have cleaned the pump filter every month as normal , nothing but the normal hair and fluff on the filter.
Took the filter out the other day (we are now in April) .... what greeted me do you reckon LOL - this! :
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Bra clasp later found in washing machine pump filter
- The problem
- After a wash, the clasp part from a bra went missing and was not found inside the drum, raising concern that it had lodged between the inner and outer drum and might cause damage. Several months later, when the pump filter was removed during routine cleaning, the missing metal clasp was found there.
- Likely cause
- The bra clasp had travelled through the machine and collected in the pump filter. The accepted reply says it was unlikely to cause major problems once there, but could eventually have caused a blockage by collecting fluff and debris.
- What fixed it
- Remove the foreign object from the pump filter and continue normal use. The accepted advice indicates no further repair was needed once it had been found in the filter.
- Checks to try
- Pump filter was cleaned monthly after the item went missing
- Nothing unusual was previously found in the filter apart from normal hair and fluff
- The missing clasp was later found in the pump filter
1 Answer
Hi Andy. It sounds like your daughter is a lot more chilled than yourself - no offence 🙂 It's a good job that it found its way into the pump filter. Something like that could have got wrapped around the heating element or even caught at the back of the drum. Once in the pump filter it's not likely to cause any major problems, but it would have caused a full blockage eventually because it just attracts all sorts of rubbish which builds up. May very well have ended up smelling too.
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