Part 2, the washing machine breaking down.

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6 months ago, the washing machine that we had here broke down. I posted a topic about it, and had hoped for a replacement one. Well, we got one, an old clunker of a Maytag machine, about 20 years old. It was working quite well until a couple of weeks ago. Like the last one, this one stopped working in a similar way. The spin cycle wouldn't work. But it wouldn't drain either. So, my roommate checked the belts and adjusted them, and it seemed to be fine for a while. Today though, the cycle repeats itself, and it decides to quit during the spin cycle. But it allowed 2 loads to be done before doing this. I had no idea what to do about this, so, I found a hand pump on the floor and started draining the water out of the drum. Suddenly it started up again, but the comforter was already outside, and I wasn't going to try to put it back in the washer. It's bad enough that 2 weeks ago, my husband had to almost kill the dryer by putting soaking wet items into the dryer and flooding it. We had to let it dry out before we could use it again. I'm hoping to be able to replace the belts and get the washer working again, I really don't want to have to replace yet another one, the old one is sitting in the back yard, and I don't need a second one out there. I don't know how long it will take to replace the belts, if I can even find replacements, but they definitely need to go, it smelled like they were burning earlier. I'm so sick and tired of washing machines, it's really not funny.