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I'd like to say do a wash, but be ready to hit the stop button if you hear grinding crushing breaking noises. Take the machine apart is your best option. I'm sure there's lots of stuff on the internet to show you how to do it.

Get one of those cheap endoscopes and have a look inside ?

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In the past I've turned machines upside down and they've coughed up the foreign objects. So B.

I fished out out a bra under wire that got stuck between the drum and the plastic drum outer by removing the back and taking out the heating coil which left a big enough access hole to go fishing. Wasn't very near the bottom so you might also need to turn the machine it's side if you try that method.

It’s probably just sat in the coin trap. Do a wash to flush it through and see if it’s in there.

Alternatively, I think mustard dissolves washers. Try a wash with a pot of mustard in the soap tray 👍

What kind of mustard do you eat??!

Peracid based mustards are a local speciality down Staines way.

Do a wash to persuade the object to get to the lowest point where there's usually an elbow rubber pipe from the bottom of the drum to the pump. Stuff like your washer usually end up in there. Forty years ago I worked with my BIL repairing washing machines and was made aware that pins and other sharps can end up in the pipe too, particularly in a machine of unknown provenance. So don't squeeze the pipe. I think that pipe is designed to catch coins and other foreign objects so your machine can probably live with it in there.

I think I already know the answer here, is there any cure for sticky Ouri grips or is that them dead now?

Any recommendations on good cycling content blogs?

The slower, tourer, countryside end of things rather than racing road bikes etc.

Thanks for the suggestions hivemind.

I'll go
1) turn machine upside down, and shake a bit.
If that fails
2) do a wash and see if it turns up in the coin trap.

Will NOT wash with mustard, and thanks for the suggestion of the endoscope and I'ld be quite excited/disgusted to go on a trip in the innards of my washing machine but that still is only a diagnostic tool. I'ld need a long gripper with a camera of some sorts to be able to fish it out and I don't think my trauma surgeon friend is willing to borrow me his kit.

If 1 and 2 fail I could go and open it up, possibly finding that mentioned 90 degree pipe at the lowest point. Could also help me diagnose why the machine is rusting from the inside out but not looking fwd to that.

I once revived this very machine by internet diagnosing that a fubard heating coil was the reason for the ambivalent error code but there is a reason why tradesmen crawling inside of a washing machine command the prices that they do.

I pulled a junior hacksaw blade out of the pipe that leads to our filter. Turned out to be what was causing the horrendous noise as it was scraping along the outside of the drum.

Was the washing machine planning it's escape?

I think @jellybaby recommended Airalo to me for a trip to the Caribbean just before Christmas, it worked seamlessly and I would definitely use it again.

If you shine a UV light at a ripe banana, it'll show up the browness in a violet colour. If you shine it at a bruised banana, it won't look any different. The reason for this is that there are some animals that have UV on their visible spectrum, and this allows them to identify which bananas are ripe to eat.

..you did just make that up, right?

Nope. Try it.
Banana and UV light is all you need.
ETA - You'll have to trust me on the bit about animals having UV on their visible spectrum .
ETFA - Hint - Google 'banana & black light'.

I meant the part about animals being able to see the UV spectrum 🙂

Apparently it is true.
Why would it not be?
ETA - Rodents and bats - check it out.

Check out puffin beaks

the part about animals being able to see the UV spectrum

Doesn't seem that surprising if you already know that many animals can hear a few octaves above humans. UV-A is only about half an octave above the green peak of human perception. UV is not special in optical terms, it's defined in human terms as the first colour going up that people can't see. We know the human optical system can transmit UV because it damages the retina.

Some creatures see above our spectrum and some below our visual range.

Look up cats and dogs vision works. We know thing dogs see in colour where before we thought black and white

What does ETA mean in this context?

Edited To Add.

Dogs eyesight is significantly inferior to ours. However, their sense of smell is about 1000x (don't quote me) more sensitive than ours. Which is why when you put a dog in a moving car and the window is open, the dog will stick his head out into the airflow as he gets a massive amount of stimulus by doing so.

Birds of prey can see piss trails from the air;
They can even see ultraviolet light, which is invisible to the human eye. This means they can detect the urine trails left by rodents on the ground, helping the birds locate their prey
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