Thanks for your help, I am a tiny female trying to get these things out of my new Hotpoint today. I thought okay i am not strong enough but you validated me that the design is rubbish. Thank for your ideas. The comments helped also.

Had same issue and had great success with one of those hook tools that have a screwdriver handle. I strapped the rubber and they came out easily. Previous attempts with pliers, wrench, screw drivers all failed.

@byronandlorikeiser2056

26 күн бұрын

“Stabbed the rubber”

I found the best way to do this was to fully remove the screw then insert it back in about half an inch so it just hits the rubber part of the bolt then prize the bolt out by moving screw from side to side pulling at the black rubber bit with the screw a couple of moves and it pops out.

@Pulser43

Жыл бұрын

thanks a lot it worked like a charm i wish they would've just wrote it in the manual

@ronenfe

5 ай бұрын

Yes it makes sense, this is how I discovered I should remove the wellnuts of my motorcycle windshield. But when I bought the washing machine I wasn't aware of this method. And they don't mention it in the manual.

Is this sharp machine?

I snapped one and had to take the back off thankfully it was sitting at the bottom of the machine.

I've just done mine, the first one I tried was a nightmare, I did it in the end by wrapping a length of cord behind the flange and pulling. Like your first attempt, but behind the flange instead of using the clips at the front. I think the underlying problem is that the rubber around the spacer gets trapped in the hole. Terrible design.

@waymarkerbushcraft

Жыл бұрын

It's an unbelievably crap design. Thanks for watching.

@Listen_before_you_act

Жыл бұрын

Oh my word just here searching thanks it's a bugger to get them out.

@ronenfe

5 ай бұрын

Maybe lubing it can help?

So much work when multigrips did the job

@waymarkerbushcraft

6 ай бұрын

Please elaborate

@ronenfe

5 ай бұрын

Yes. Long nose pliers worked for me too. But the manual wrongly says to use screwdrivers. Also I broke one of them using this method.

Absolute joke. I'm 6'5" and 19 stone big man. I managed to remove two of the bolts. I can't physically turn the other two. It's going back tomorrow. Garbage.