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Re:Why washing machines are no longer built to last by derekp7 on Sunday May 04, 2014 @06:44PM (#7696136)
Another option to 3d printing (I wonder how well this works for gears on consumer-level printers?), is to print out the gear pattern on label paper, and stick that onto a piece of plexi glass. Then cut out the circular shape, and finally use a triangle file (along with a vice) to cut the gear notches, using the printed label as a guide. I did this once for a gear for an older Okidata dot-matrix printer used for multi-part forms.
Re:Why washing machines are no longer built to last by sitkack on Sunday May 04, 2014 @07:55PM (#7696339)
That would have worked but I didn't think of it in 2000. That washer could have run another 20 years. kintsugi