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1 Part No A Note to You Washer Safety Parts and Features Operating Your Washer Caring for Your Washer Laundry Tips Removing Stains Troubeshooting Requesting Assistance or Service Warranty I Ca ua with que6tion6 or comm6nb. TWO SPEED AUTOMATIC WASHER

2 A Note to You Thank you for buying a Roper@ appiance. Roper appiances give you a the functionaity of name brand appiances at a vaue price. To ensure you enjoy years of troube-free operation, we deveoped this Use and Care Guide. It contains vauabe information about how to operate and maintain your appiance propery and safey. Pease read it carefuy. Aso, pease compete and mai the Ownership Registration Card provided with your appiance. This card heps us notify you about any new information on your appiance. Pease record your mode s information. Whenever you ca to request service on Mode Number your appiance, you need to know your compete mode number and seria number. Seria Number You can find this information on the mode Purchase Date and seria number pate (see diagram on page 4 for ocation of pate). Deaer Name Pease aso record the purchase date of your appiance and your deaer s name, Deaer Address address, and teephone number. Deaer Phone Keep ths book and the saes sip together In a safe pace for future reference. I Ca our to-free number 24 hours a day

3 Washer Safety Your safety is important to us. This guide contains safety statements under warning symbos. Pease pay specia attention to these symbos and foow any instructions given. Here is a brief expana- This symbo aerts you to such dangers as persona injury, burns, fire, and eectrica shock. tion of the symbo. IMPORTANT SAFE-Y INSTRUCTIONS Read a instructions before using 6 If your hot water has not been used reyour washer. centy (usuay 2 weeks or onger), hydro- 6 Do not machine wash or machine dry gen gases may buid up in your water items ceaned, washed, soaked in, or heater and your hot water pipes. spotted with wax, paint, gasoine, oi, or HYDROGEN GAS IS EXPLOSIVE. other fammabe fuids. The fumes can To prevent injury or damage, before create a fire hazard or exposion. Aways using your washer, turn on a hot water hand wash and ine dry items containing faucets and aow water to run for severa these materias. minutes. This wi aow gases to escape. Do not smoke or use any open fame Fammabe fuids (dry-ceaning sovents, near your faucet whie it is open. kerosene, gasoine, etc.) shoud not be used or stored in or near your washer. Do Pease... not add fammabe fuids to your wash Have ony a quaified person insta, rewater. These substances give off vapors pair, or repace parts on washer. that can create a fire hazard or exposion. 6 Maintain washer propery. Do not aow chidren to operate, pay Protect washer from the weather and with, or craw on or inside your keep it where the temperature wi not fa washer. Supervise chidren cosey beow freezing. when your washer is used near them. Insta and eve washer on a foor that Before your washer is removed from can support the weight.* service or discarded, remove the id to prevent accidenta entrapment. Connect washer to the correct 3-prong outet, eectrica suppy, water suppy, *After starting a cyce, do not reach into and drain.* the basket uness the Cyce Contro Knob is pushed in and a motion stops. Ground washer propery.* *See the Instaation Instructions..Do not tamper with the contros. Understanding your responsibiities - SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS - Store aundry aids and other materias in a 6 Do not use chorine beach and ammonia coo, dry pace where chidren cannot reach or acids (such as vinegar or rust remover) them (in a ocked cabinet if possibe). in the same wash. Hazardous fumes Read and foow instructions on packages can form. of detergent and aundry aids, especiay Unpug power suppy cord before attemptwarnings and precautions. ing to service your washer. Do not wash or dry items that are soied with Do not machine wash fibergass materias. vegetabe or cooking oi. These items may Sma partices can stick to fabrics washed contain some oi after aundering. Due to the in foowing oads and cause skin irritation. remaining oi, the fabric may smoke or catch fire by itsef. 3

4 Parts and Features The parts and features of your washer are iustrated on this page. Become famiiar with a parts and features before using your washer. Page references are incuded next to some features. Refer to those pages for more information about the features. Load size ;y--w To-free -.- -_ (P- 2) Temperature Seector \ (P- 5) contro knob (P. 6) Liquid chorine beach dispenser (P- 6) Agitator Mode and aeria L number pate (under id) -Basket - Tub Manua cean int fiter (bottom of washer basket) (P- 8)

5 Operating Your Washer To obtain the best washing resuts, you must operate your washer propery. This section gives you this important information. Page references are incuded for more information. Starting Your Washer Add measured detergent to the washer. Then pace a sorted oad of cothes In the washer. Sort and oad cothes as described on page 10. If desired, you may aso add coor-safe a-fabric beach. (OPTIONAL STEP) If desred, add measured qud chorine beach to the qud beach dispenser (see page 8). Use ony iquid chorine beach in the beach dispenser. Cose the washer id. Seect a oad size. Turn the Load Size Seector to the setting that corresponds with the size of the wash oad and the type of fabric being washed. To change the oad size setting after the washer has started to fi, move the Seector to the desired new setting. See pages 10 and 11 for oading tips. Liquid beach dkpeneer 5. Seect a wash-rinse temperature wth the Water Temperature Seector. Match the water temperature wth the type of fabric and sos being washed. SW page 12 for water temperature guideines. Three wash-rinse temperatures are avaiabe: cod-cod, warm-cod, and hot-cod. 8. Push In and turn the Cyce Contro Knob cockwise to the wash cyce you want (see page 6). Match wash water temperature with the type of fabric and sois being washed. 7. Pu out Cyce Contro Knob to start washer. 8. (OPTIONAL STEP) If desred, add measured and diuted fabric softener during rinse cyce (see page 8). 5

6 Stopping/restarting your washer If necessary, you can stop your washer during a cyce to add more cothes, or add fabric softener to the fina rinse (see page 8). To stop the washer at any time, push in the Cyce Contro Knob. To restart the washer, cose the id (if necessary) and pu out the Cyce Contro Knob. Seecting a cyce Use the information in this section to hep you make the best cyce seections for your wash oads. Each cyce is designed for different types of fabrics and soi eves. Heavy Cyce The Heavy cyce features high agitation and spin speeds. Use 14 minutes of wash time to cean arge toads of heaviy constructed fabrics that are moderatey to heaviy soied. Norma Cyce The Norma cyce features high spin speeds to shorten drying time. Use 12 minutes of wash time to cean cotton and inen fabrics that are moderatey to heaviy soied. 6 Permanent Press Cyce The Permanent Press cyce features a coodown rinse and ow spin speeds to reduce wrinking. Use 10 minutes of wash time to cean permanent press and some synthetic fabriis that are ighty to moderatey soied. The washer pauses briefy during the Permanent Press cyce. These pauses are norma for washer operation. Knits/Deicate Cyce The Knits/Deicate cyce features a reduced agitation speed for gente soi remova. Low spin speeds reduce wrinking. Use 8 minutes of wash time to cean deicate items and washabe knits that are ighty to moderatey soied.

7 Using rinse and spin When using extra detergent for heaviy soied cothes, or washing specia-care items, you may want an extra rinse and spin. 1. Push in Cyce Contro Knob and turn cockwiie unti indicator points to RINSE, as iustrated. 2. Pu out Cyce Contro Knob. The washer fis to seected oad size, agitates, drains, and spins. Using drain and spin A drain and spin may hep shorten drying times for some heavy fabrics or specia-care items by removing excess water. 1. Push in Cyce Contro Knob and turn cockwise unti indicator points to SPIN, as iustrated. 2. Pu out Cyce Contro Knob. The washer drains and then spins. What happens in each cyce When the Cyce Contro Knob is set to a number and pued out, the washer fis (to the seected oad size) before agitation and timing start. The washer begins agitating immediatey after fiing; agitation can occur with the washer id up or down. After agitation starts, the Cyce Contro Knob turns cockwise unti it points to an OFF area and the cyce ends. The washer pauses briefy during the Permanent Press cyce. These pauses are norma for washer operation. WASH RiNSE Wash seected time Lzk Rinse Drain-No agitation The Permanent Press cyde patthy drains, fis, agitates briefy, and drains. Spin IBY Spin 7

8 Using the iquid chorine beach dispenser Aways measure iquid chorine beach. Do not guess. Never use more than 1 cup (250 ml) for a fu oad. Use ess with ower water eve settings. Foow manufacturer s directions for safe use. Use a cup with a pouring spout to avoid spiing. 1. Load the washer. 2. Pour measured chorine beach carefuy into the dispenser. Do not et beach spash, drip, or run down into washer basket. Undiuted beach wi damage any fabric it touches. NOTE: Do not use this dispenser to add 3. Start the washer. Beach wi be diuted powdered chorine or a-fabric beach to and dispensed automaticay during wash your wash toad. The dispenser is for iquid part of cyce. chorine beach use ony. Adding fabric softeners Aways diute fabric softeners with $5 to 1 cup (125 to 250 m) warm water. Undiuted fabric softener can stain fabrics. Add diuted fabrii softener ony in the fina rinse. Fabric softeners shoud not be mixed with other aundry products because greasy stains may form. f stains form, remove by wetting the stain and rubbing with iquid detergent or a bar of soap. Rewash the stained item. Too much fabric softener can make some items (diapers and towes) nonabsorbent. If thii happens, use ess fabric softener or do not use it every time. Manua cean int fiter Cean the fiter at the bottom of the agitator after every oad for the best fittering resuts. To cean: 1. Lii off the agitator barre. 2. Wash or wipe the fiter cean in the bottom of the agitator barre. The fiter is not removabe. 3. Repace agitator barre and snap into pace. Agitator barre ManiaI cean int fitter 8

9 Caring for Your Washer Proper care of your washer can extend its Me. This section expains washer proper& and safety. Ceaning your washer Exterior Wipe up detergent, beach, and other spis with a soft, damp coth or sponge as they occur. Occasionay wipe the outside of the washer to keep it ooking ike new. Do not put sharp or meta objects in your washer. They can damage the finish. Check a pockets for pins, cips,. money,. bots, nuts, etc. Do not ay these objects on your washer after emptying pockets. how to care for your Interior Cean interior with 1 cup (250 ml) of chorine beach mixed with 2 cups (500 ml) of detergent. Run washer through a compete cyce using hot water. Repeat process if necessary. NOTE: Remove hard water deposits using ony ceaners abeed as washer safe. Winter storage or moving care Insta and store your washer where it wi not freeze. Because some water may stay in the hoses, freezing can damage your washer. If storing or moving your washer during freezing weather, winterize it. To winterize washer: To use washer again: 1. Shut off both water faucets. 1. Fush water pipes and hoses. 2. Disconnect and drain water inet hoses. 2. Reconnect water inet hoses. 3. Put 1 quart (1L) of R.V.-type antifreeze in 3. Turn on both water faucets. the basket. 4. Reconnect power suppy cord. 4. Run washer on a drain and spin setting (see page 7) for about 30 seconds to mix the antifreeze and water. 5. Unpug the power suppy cord. Non-use or vacation care You shoud operate your washer ony when you are at home. If you wi be on vacation or wi not be using your washer for an extended period of time, you shoud: 5. Run the washer through a compete cyce with 1 cup (250 ml) of detergent to cean out antifreeze. Unpug the power suppy cord or turn off eectrica power to the washer. Turn off the water suppy to the washer. This heps avoid accidenta fooding (due to a water pressure surge) whie you are away.

10 Laundry Tips This section reviews proper Laundering techniques and gives you additiona washing infomtion. Preparing cothes for washing Cose zippers, snaps, and hooks to avoid snagging other items. Remove pins, buckes, and other hard objects to avoid scratching the washer interiir. Remove non-washabe trim and ornaments. Empty pockets and turn them inside out. Turn down cuffs, brush away int and dirt. Sorting Separate heaviy-soied items from ightysoied ones, even if they woud normay be washed together. Separate int givers (towes, chenie) from int takers (corduroy, synthetics, Loading Drop items into washer oosey. Fi to the top of the basket, but do not wrap items around the agitator. Items shoud move easiy through wash water for best I!2 ceaning and wrinke-free resuts. Itemsshoud sinkand reappear ater. Load washer propery and seect correct bad size setting. Overoading or packing the machine, and seecting a setting too sma for the wash oad can: - cause poor ceaning. - increase wrinking. - create excessive int. - wear out items faster (because of piing). Turn synthetic knits inside out to avoid piing. Tie strings and sashes so they wi not tange.. Mend tears, oose hems, and seams. Treat spots and stains. (See Removing Stains on pages ) Stained or wet garments shoud be washed prompty for best resuts. permanent press). When possibe, turn int givers inside out. Separate dark coors from ight coors, coorfast items from noncobrfast items. Sort by fabric and construction (sturdy cottons, knits, deicate items). Load by the amount of space items take up, not by their weight. Mix arge and sma items in each oad. Load eveny to maintain washer baance. An off- ; baance oad can make the s- 2s washer vibrate during spin.!!fz To reduce wrinking, permanent press cothes and some synthetic knits shoud have more room to move in the water than heavy items (towes, jeans). Use the arge oad setting for best resuts with permanent press cothes. 10

11 Loading suggestions For these suggested fu-sized setting. LARGE CAPACITY W, Heavy Work Cothes 2 pair pants 3 shirts 3 pair jeans 1 covera Knits 2 sacks 2 bouses 4 shirts 4 tops 2 dresses oads, set the Load Size Seector to the highest water eve SHERS Permanent Press 1 doube sheet 1 tabecoth 1 dress 1 bouse 2 sacks 3 shirts 2 piowcases Mixed Load 2 doube or 1 king size sheet(s) 4 piowcases 6 T-shirts 6 pair shorts 2 shirts 2 bouses 6 handkerchiefs Towes 8 bath towes 8 hand towes 10 wash coths 1 bathmat Dekates 2 camisoes 4 sips 4 panties 2 bras 2 nighties 1 Saving energy Use warm or cokf wash water for most Avoid rewashing. Use enough detergent toads. Use hot water ony when washing and pretreat stains or heavy sois. Use the heavy, greasy sois or whites. cyces and wash times recommended for Use cod rinses. the fabric and soi. Wash fu oads. Use your washer during off-peak hours - Use ower water eves when washing usuay eary morning and ate evening. sma oads. (Ask your power company.) 11

12 Water Guideines Seecting water temperatures WASH WATER TEMPERATURE SUGGESTED FABRICS COMMENTS HOT 130 F (54 C) or above Work cothes Sturdy whites/coorfast pastes Diapers WARM DarkInoncobrfast coors go F Permanent press items (32 ~44 C) Nyon, poyester, acryics, siks, wooens Knits/deicate fabrics COLD F (21-32 C) Extra-sensitive coors Noncoorfast items Hand washabes The washer features cod rinses for a wash temperatures. Best ceaning for heaviy soied items Removes ois, perspiration, greasy sois, and stains Prevents graying or yeowing Best for ighty soied to moderatey soied items Safe for most fabric finishes Less fading and dye beeding Reduces wrinking Best for very ighty soied items Saves hot water Best rinse water temperature Checking hot water Water hardness temperature Many poor washing resuts can be traced to Your hot water shoud be 130 F (54 C) or above. f you do not know your hot water the hardness of the wash water. To check your water hardness: temperature, you can check it easiy. You City water - ask the city water company. may need to raise the temperature of your We water - ask the oca water authority. water heater. To check your hot water: Ask for the minera content in grains/gaon 1. Fi a pan with the hottest water avaiabe or parts/miion. If your water is more than from the faucet that fis your washer. 8 grains/gaon or more than 153 parts/ NOTE: if you do not have a faucet at your miion, you shoud consider: washer site, coect the water from the Instaing a water softener. faucet cosest to your washer. Using more detergent. 2. Pace a candy thermometer or cooking thermometer in the water to check the Using a packaged water conditioner. temperature. Not using soap. NOTE: In wash water temperatures coder than 70 F (21 C), detergents do not dissove we. Aso, sois may be difficut to remove, and some fabrics may retain wear wrinkes and may have increased piing. 12

13 Washing specia-care items Most garments and househokt texties have care abes with aundering instructions. Aways foow care abe directions when they are avaiabe. Beow are genera washing instructions for some specia washabes. ITEM Bankets (eectric or wooen) CARE INSTRUCTIONS Pretreat spots and stains. Seect water temperature, cyce, and time according to the type of bhnket being washed. An extra rinse may be necessary (see page 7 for rinse and spin information). Check care abe to see if manufacturer recommends machine washing. Curtains, drapes, Wash sma oads. Crowding may cause wrinking. Repace sipcovers sipcovers whie sti sighty damp. They wi dry to M tighty. Diapers Eastic, spandex Fame-retardant cothing Knits NOTE: Sun-damaged curtains and draperies wi tear whether hand or machine washed. When using chorine beach for soaking, add extra detergent to the oad. Avoid overuse of fabric softeners - absorbency wi be reduced. Eastic picks up oi from the body. Oi can damage eastic. Wash often to reduce the damage. Use warm water and sufficient detergent to remove ois. Do not use chorine beach. Items wi be ceary abeed as fame-retardant. Foow manufacturer s instructions to retain fame-retardant quaities. Knits are comfortabe to wear because they stretch. However, this means that knits are more ikey to be stretched and damaged when washed (especiay buky knits). Knits made of synthetic fabrics such as poyester, nyon, and acryic tend to keep their origina shape more than a knit made of wtton or ramie. Piiiows, stuffed Washing feather piows is not recommended uness they wi be toys dried in a dryer. Pastic, rubber items Treat as deicate items. Wash in warm water. Wash sma items in a mesh bag. Quiits, bedspreads Do not wash cotton-fied comforters uness they are quited or stitched. Tucked cotton batting tends to sip and become umpy. An extra rinse may be necessary. Scatter rugs Snowsuits, jackets Shake or vacuum rugs to remove oose dirt. Wash more than one rug at a time. If washing ony one rug, add bath towes to baance the oad. Wash ony one or two items at a time. You may need to stop the washer occasionay to press air from the items being washed. An extra rinse may be necessary. 13

14 Removing Stains Stained, heavity-soied, or greasy items may need to be prewashed or soaked for best resuts. Soaking heps remove protein-type stains ike bood, mik, or grass. Prewashing heps oosen soi before washing. Stain remova rues Use warm water for soaking or prewashing stained aundry. Hot water can set stains. Most stains are easier to remove when they are fresh. Od or set stains may not wme out. Foow package directions for pretreatment products. Before treating any stain, find out what kind of stain it is, how od the stain is, what kind of fabric it is, and if the fabric is coorfast. (Check the care abe.) Washing and drying can set some stains. Start with cod or warm water. Hot water can set some stains. Stain remova guide STAiN Aicohoik beverage Bood Chewing gum Chocoate or coffee TO REMOVE When beach is recommended, use a beach that is safe for the fabric. Test stain removers on an inside seam or hidden wrner of the item to see if the coor is removed. Put the stained area face down on a paper towe or white coth. Appy the stain remover to the back of the stain. This forces the stain off the fabric instead of through it. Meat tenderizer or enzyme presoaks hep break down some protein stains so they are easier to remove. These stains turn brown with age, so treat immediatey. Sponge or soak fresh stains with cod water. Wash. If stain remains, soak 15 minutes in a soution of ukewarm water, iquid detergent, and a few drops of white vinegar. Rinse. Wash. Rinse immediatey or soak in cod water with enzyme presoak for 30 minutes or onger. Rinse. Rub detergent into any remaining stains. Rinse. If stain remains, put a few drops of 3% hydrogen peroxide on stain for 3-5 minutes. Rinse thoroughy. Wash. Use ice to make gum hard. Scrape off what you can. Sponge with a nonfammabe fabric ceaner. Let dry. Wash. Sponge immediatey with a nonfammabe fabric ceaner or appy a prewash soi and stain remover. Rinse. Wash. If stain remains, appty a iquid detergent to stain or soak in warm water with an enzyme presoak. Rewash. Crayon and cande wax Cream, miiq or ice cream Scrape off excess with a du knife. Pace fabric between two botters or facia tissue. Press with warm iron. Remove coor stain with nonfammabe fabrii ceaner. Hand wash unti stain is gone. If fu toad is crayon stained, take to ceaners or coin-operated dry ceaning machine. Sponge with a nonfammabe fabric ceaner, or a prewash soi and stain remover. Rinse. Wash. Repeat if necessary. f stain remains, appy a few drops of iquid detergent and a few drops of ammonia. Bot dry and rinse. If stain remains, soak in an enzyme presoak. Wash. 14

15 STAIN Deodorants and antiperspirants TO REMOVE Light stain: Treat with iquid detergent or your reguar aundry detergent. Wash in hottest water safe for fabric. Heavy stain: Pace face down on towe and treat with a paste of ammonia and a-fabric beach. Let stand for 30 minutes. Wash in hottest water safe for fabric. Fat, grease, Items soied with vegetabe or cooking oi shoud not be washed or dried. or oi See vegetabe/cooking oi Warning on page 3. For other types of greasy stains, use one of the methods beow: Use pretreatment stain remover. Foow abe directions. Wash in hottest water safe for fabric. Use tacum powder to absorb as much grease as possibe. Sponge with a nonfammabe fabric ceaner. Rinse. Wash. Treat with iquid detergent or rub a detergent paste on the stain. Wash using hottest water safe for fabric. Fruit stains Fresh stains: Soak immediatey in coo water. Wash. f stain remains, cover area with a paste made of a-fabric beach, a few drops of hot water and a few drops of ammonia. Wait 15 to 30 minutes. Wash. Od stains: Sponge with white vinegar. Rinse. Repeat procedure for fresh stains. Grass or Soak in warm or cod water with an enzyme presoak for at east green 30 minutes, or sponge with denatured acoho. Wash in water temperavegetabes ture and beach safe for the fabrii. For coored fabrii, check worfastness before appying acoho. For acetate, sponge with a nonfammabe fabric ceaner. If stain remains, beach with 3% hydrogen peroxide. Rinse. Rewash. Ink or bapoint pen ink Spray stain with an aeroso hair spray or rubbing acoho. Sponge stain continuousy unti a beeding stops. Let dry. Repeat if necessary. Wash. If stain remains, beach if safe for fabric. (India and other indeibe inks are amost impossibe to remove competey.) iron or rust Coored or noncoorfast Items: Appy emon juice and sat. Pace in the sun to dry. Rinse thoroughy. Repeat if necessary. White or coorfast items: Try a rust remover. Test first on inside seam or hem. Some rust removers are not washer safe. Foow package directions. Ketchup or Sponge immediatey with a nonfammabe fabrii ceaner or appy a tomato prewash soi and stain remover. Rinse. Wash. If stain remains, appy a products iquid detergent to stain or soak in warm water with an enzyme presoak. Rewash. Lipstick Appy nonfammabe fabric ceaner or prewash soi and stain remover. Bot with absorbent materia. Repeat if necessary. Rinse. If stain sti remains, rub with iquid detergent. Wash. continued on next page 15

16 STAIN Meat juice, wi TO REMOVE Scrape off excess with a du knife. Soak in cod or warm water with enzyme presoak at east 30 minutes, or treat stains with a nonfammabe fabric ceaner. Wash. Midew Wash in hottest water safe for fabrii. If stain remains, soak in warm water and an a-fabric beach for 15 to 30 minutes. Rewash. (Od midew stains are amost impossibe to remove. Midew fungus destroys or weakens fabrics.) An aternative to beach is to treat with sat and emon juice and dry in direct sunight. Rinse and rewash. Midew may form if wet or damp aundry remains in your washer for extended periods of time. To prevent midew, prompty dry aundry after washing. Mustard Treat immediatey. Scrape off excess mustard. Sponge with a nonfammabe fabric ceaner or a prewash soi and stain remover. Rinse. Work iquid detergent and a few drops of vinegar into stain. Rinse. f stain remains, appy 3% hydrogen peroxide. Rinse and wash. Paint Hand wash paint-stained items. Water base: Treat stains whie sti wet. (These paints cannot be removed after they have dried.) Rinse in warm water to fush out paint. Sponge with a nonfammabe fabric ceaner. Rinse. Wash. Oi base: Scrape off fresh paint. Sponge with a nonfammabe fabric ceaner or treat stain with recommended thinner. Whie stain is sti wet with sovent, rub iquid detergent into it. Wash with hottest water safe for fabrii. Perspiration Remove stains before ironing. Perspiration stains may weaken fabric. Wash or sponge stain thoroughy with detergent and warm water. If perspiration has changed the coor of the fabric, use one of the foowing treatments: Fresh stains: Appy ammonia to stain. Rinse. Launder to remove ammonia odor. Od stains: Appy white vinegar to stain. Rinse. Launder to remove vinegar odor. Scorch Severe scorch cannot be removed. Wet stain with 3% hydrogen peroxide. Cover with a dry coth and press with an iron as hot as is safe for fabric. Rinse we. Wash. OR Wet with emon juice and spread in the sun to dry. Wash. Soft drinks Sponge immediatey with cod water and acoho. Heat and detergent may set stain. 16

17 Requesting Service Assistance or Before caing for assistance or service, pease check Troubeshooting on pages It may save you the cost of a service ca. If you sti need hep, foow the instructions beow. 1. f you need assistance*... Ca our M-free number. Dia II toii-free from anywhere in the U.S.A.: ROPER and tak with one of our trained consutants. The wnsuttant can instruct you in how to obtain satisfactory operation from your appiance or, if service is necessary, recommend a quaified service company in your area. If you prefer, write to: Mr. Wiiam Cark Consumer Assistance Representative Whirpoo Corporation 2000 North M-63 Benton Harbor, M Pease incude a daytime phone number in your correspondence. 2. If you need service*... Contact the deaer from whom you purchased the appiance or the authorized servicer in your arw. For hep finding an authorized servicer in your area, ca E our to-free teephone number in Step 1. SERVICE 3. If you need FSP repacement parts... FSP is a registered trademark of Whirpoo Corporation for quaity parts. Look for this symbo of quaity whenever you need a repacement part for your Ropep appiance. FSP repacement parts wi fii right and work right, because they are made to the same exacting specifications used to buid every new Roper appiance. To ocate FSP repacement parts in your area, refer to Step 2 or ca our to-free number in Step f you are not satisfied with how the probem was soved... Contact the Major Appiance Consumer Action Pane (MACAP). MACAP is a group of independent consumer experts that voices wnsumer views at the highest eves of the major appiance industry. Contact MACAP ony when the deaer, authorized servicer, and Whirpoo have faied to resove your probem. Major Appiance Consumer Action Pane 20 Noth Wacker Drive Chicago, IL *When asking for hep or service: Pease provide a detaied description of the probem, your appiance s compete mode and seria numbers, and the purchase date. (See page 2.) This information wi hep us respond propery to your request. I MACAP wi in turn inform us of your action. 19

18 Common washer probems Before caing for service, check these: F3z!! Is the power cord firmy pugged into a ive outet with proper votage? Have you bown a househod fuse been used? fuse or tripped a circuit breaker? Has a time-deay Are both the hot and cod water faucets turned on? Are the water hoses kinked or cogged? Is the drain hose ower than the water eve in the washer? It must be higher. H Is the id cosed? Is the Cyce Contro Knob set and pued out? Is the washer making noises or vibrating? Is the wash oad propery distributed around the agitator? NOTE: Washer stops briefy during a wash cyce. These pauses are norma. If none of these items was causing your probem, see Requesting Assistance or Service on page

19 Requesting Assistance or Service Before caing for assistance or service, pease check Troubeshooting on pages t may save you the cost of a service ca. If you sti need hep, foow the instructions beow. 1. f you need assistance*... Ca our toi-free number. Dia II toii-free from anywhere in the U.S.A.: 1-8OWWROPER and tak with one of our trained consutants. The consutant can instruct you in how to obtain satisfactory operation from your appiance or, if service is necessary, recommend a quaified service company in your area. If you prefer, write to: Mr. Wiiam Cark Consumer Assistance Representative Whirpoo Corporation 2000 North M-63 Benton Harbor, M Pease incude a daytime phone number in your correspondence. 2. If you need service*... Contact the deaer from whom you purchased the appiance or the authorized servicer in your SERVICE area. For hep finding an authorized servicer in your area, ca H our to-free teephone number in Step 1. *When askng for hep or service: Pease provide a detaied description of the probem, your appiance s compete mode and seria numbers, and the purchase date. (See page 2.) This information wi hep us respond propery to your request. 3. If you need FSP repacement parts... FSP is a registered trademark of Whirpoo Corporation for quaity parts. Look for this symbo of quaity whenever you need a repacement part for your Ropep appiance. FSP repacement parts wi fit right and work right, because they are made to the same exacting specifications used to buid every new Roper appiance. To ocate FSP repacement parts in your arw, refer to Step 2 or ca our to-free number in Step If you are not satisfied with how the probem was soved... Contact the Major Appiance Consumer Action Pane (MACAP). MACAP is a group of independent consumer experts that voices wnsumer views at the highest eves of the major appiance industry. Contact MACAP ony when the deaer, authorized servicer, and Whirpoo have faied to resove your probem. Major Appiance Consumer Action Pane 20 North Wacker Drive Chicago, IL MACAP wi in turn inform us of your action. 19

20 Automatic ROPER Washer Warranty LENGTH OF WARRANTY FULL ONE-YEAR WARRANTY (from date of purchase) LIMITED 2ND-5TH YEAR WARRANTY (from date of purchase) WE WILL NOT PAY FOR WE WILL PAY FOR Repacement parts and repair abor to correct defects in materias or workmanship. Service must be provided by an authorized Roper service company. Repacement parts for any part of the gearcase assemby if defective in materias or workmanship. A. Sewice cas to: 1. Correct the instaation of your washer. 2. Instruct you how to use your washer. 3. Repace house fuses or correct house wiring or pumbing. B. Repairs when your washer is used in other than norma, singe-famiy househod use. C. Pickup and deivery. Your washer is designed to be repaired in the home. D. Damage to your washer caused by accident, misuse, fire, food, acts of God, or use of products not approved by us. E. Any abor costs during the imited warranty. F. Repairs to parts or systems caused by unauthorized modifications made to the appiance. ee4 This Roper appiance is warranted by Whirpoo Corporation. Under no circumstances sha it be iabe under this warranty for incidenta or consequentia damages. Some states do not aow the excusion or imitation of incidenta or consequentia damages, or imitation of impied warranties, so these imitations or excusions may not appy to you. This warranty gives you specific ega rights, and you may aso have other rights which vary from state to state. Outside the United States, a different warranty may aso appy. For detais, pease contact your authorized Roper distributor or miitary exchange. If you need service, first see the Requesting Assistance or Sewice section of this book and then, if you need additiona hep, ca our to-free teephone number, ROPER ( ), from anywhere in the U.S.A. Ptiad on my&d paper - ox pc&mmmaf waso so?& -md maariaa PART NO wndpoo coiporah Q RegYarad TraWnnrk d WhIrpoo. U.SA. Pdnd h U.SA