On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:33:22 +0200, Jo Lonergan
 wrote:

>Bras can get hideously twisted through the rest of the wash, and (I've
>heard) the wires can get out and impale themselves in the holes in the
>drum, leading to expensive repairs. Dangerous things, bras.

Unsurprisingly, we don't wash many bras in our household, so when the
reconditioned machine we bought a few years back suddenly turned out
to have a drum problem we were not best pleased with the engineer from
the reconditioning place that produced a bra wire and said "here's you
problem."  Either he'd brought the wire with him or it had been in the
machine since it's previous owners and the reconditioning part had
been faulty.  

n