My front-loading washing machine has started making a nasty noise during the spin cycle. I suspect that SWMBO has overloaded it and that the bearings are now shot.
How cool/warm is the location where the washing machine is used?
A little advertised fact about Samsung (not your brand, but..) front-loaders is that they will not operate below about 60 degrees F. Some models even detect the ambient temperature and refuse to run, or spin more slowly than normal.
The reason being, they use a special bearing lubricant that doesn't work at cooler temperatures.
This is why we ended up getting a modern top-loader rather than a front-loader here last spring -- our laundry area is in a mostly unheated basement. The modern (Maytag) top-loader spins almost as quickly as a front-loader, but the bearings are not stressed as much by the top-loader design.
Overall, it's a surprisingly efficient machine, not at all like the older top-loader it replaced.
Cheers
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