For Sale....
you know you want it
Thursday, January 14, 2010 by BoXXi | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
For Sale: Old mid 80's Front loading washing machine. Goes like a rocket!
By 'goes like a rocket' I actually mean that literally.
It actually shakes the house.
It's the loudest most violent sounding washing machine I have ever encountered.
It makes guests scared and children cry. I've lived with it like that for almost a year and it still scares me.
Once while washing a load of towels it got a bit out of balance and it got so out of control for a minute that I swear I actually saw a porthole to another dimension open above it just for a second, there were dinosaurs on the other side and they looked scared too, it almost sucked me in but I held on for my life to the deepfreeze. It sucked my shoes and pants off though and it got the iron as well which pissed me off because it was quite a good one. Luckily it sucked it's own power cord out of the wall and stopped before the whole house went in.
I drew a picture of the dinosaurs i saw in case people didn't believe me, they are partly red because my green felt ran out half way through.
I think it would be good to paint it matt black and put steel spikes all over it and draw demons on the front, however I have added an image of another possible customization option for people who like horses.
On heavy duty spin cycle it sort of sounds a bit like the tortured howls of 1000 undead writhing in the sulphury pits of hell mixed with a train with carriages full of scrap iron sliding down the road with no wheels, on fire, into a bell factory.
Thankfully it's bite is not as bad as it's bark. It washes fine, completes cycles, does everything it's supposed to.
It leaks a bit when it's running, always has.
Its a bit grubby, could do with a wipe down, I refuse to touch it because I'm still getting over the whole dinosaur scare thing.
If your in a fix and need a cheap washing machine and are either completely deaf or hate your neighbours this baby is for you.
£10.... Pick up only, Leeds
Selling to pay for my counseling
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Reply #22 Friday, January 15, 2010 11:51 PM
Got a washer AND dryer out back doing nothing.... can't sell 'em.
Had a Persian cat that liked to play in the mud.... hence, they're clogged with fur. 
Reply #23 Saturday, January 16, 2010 8:27 AM
so......... you washed a persian cat in a washing machine??????? Ohhhhh Kaaaaaay! 
Reply #24 Saturday, January 16, 2010 8:55 AM
Talk about fur balls....
That hadda be one pissed off cat when it was done.
Reply #26 Saturday, January 16, 2010 9:41 AM
Yeah, it didn't wanna go in at first, you know, claws everywhere clutching onto anything and everything to save getting dunked, but then I threw in a mouse I'd found out in the shed. The next bit was easy... he dove in and the lid slammed shut because of the ruckus chasing the mouse. All I had to do then was push the 'Heavy Duty Wash' button... and away it went.
Come to think of it, which I do, that's probably why the damned washing machine wouldn't drain when it had done... the sodden mouse got stuck in the outlet hose.
Getting the cat in the tumble dryer was much easier (coaxing him in with a mouse wasn't necessary)... he was still too dizzy from the washer's spin cycle to put up a fight.
I'm guessing he must have liked the dryer much better than the washing machine, though. Like we could leave the washer lid up (sometimes for days) and he'd never jump in there... but he'd hop into the dryer and go to sleep if the door was open, and sometimes he would even go to the extreme of hiding in baskets of dryer-bound stuff (damned smart cat, that) if the door was closed a while.
Damned smart cat, that! 
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Reply #21 Friday, January 15, 2010 4:42 PM
I had to replace a heating element in the clothes dryer.
Everyone said it was sooooo easy to do.
They forgot to tell me you have to take apart the entire dryer to get to it. Which of course I discovered after I had taken apart the entire dryer.
I installed the element and proceeded to put the dryer back together.
When I was done I had a box, a little bigger than a shoe box, full of parts.
I carefully started the dryer.
It ran.
For another year.
Then it broke again.
My ex said "You can fix it."
As I approached it with my toolbox...it screamed some kind of obsenity at me and quite properly blew up taking out half the drywall behind it.
I like to think it took it's own life and was no fault of mine.
I still have the box of parts if you wanna throw them in with the washer to sweeten the pot.