Thank you for your kind words. Great to see how the video is still useful to people after 5 years. 🙂

Hello and sorry for my late reply. For the sake of future people browsing these comments I will answer your question and say that the gel on my board was about half a cm thick, but not yellow and more transparant (from what I can remember so many years later). Perhaps yours was a different (more recent?) model of washer? The machine in the video (Samsung WF71F5E5P4W) was bought 3 years before making the video and the video is 5 years old now. While I did buy it new, the model was definitely not the newest Samsung had available at the time. I imagine the materials used in the production changes over the years as well as the designs of the inner workings themselves.

I am happy to confirm that it is still working without further problems.

@@goldflemming4912 Wow Great! I need to find someone who can solder this for me... Thx for your quick reply!

Sorry to hear you couldn't fix it, but it's always better to try.

i did use a chopstick to peel of the silicon and it did work fine : www.bildtagg.se/bild/o8xemt1umrbidsgcefljd2r

Hi, U did only de lager ones?

The machine had been in storage for a good year due to a move and a period spent abroad, however recently we reinstalled it and it hasn't missed a beat. Didn't do anything to it since the repair in this video.

I can only hope that Samsung received enough warranty claims that their manufacturing process has since been improved.

Hello Alfred, with lots of patience while being carefull not to damage any component of the board. It's a messy job, don't expect it to come off in one piece.

The gel is indeed by far the most time-consuming part of this though it is quite straightforward.

I am sorry to hear that your repair did not have the intended result. If it turned on before you attempted the repair and now not anymore, I can only imagine that during the procedure one of the components or circuits got damaged. In your stead I would probably try to resolder the work I did, double-check the connectors and cables and the main wire/plug. Good luck.

I imagine also to keep dust and moisture out, since a washing machine is per definition a dirty and wet environment.

I'm sorry but I am not a technician nor a washing machine expert. Just a brave guy with nothing to lose and some basic soldering skills.

@@goldflemming4912 Actually, that in itself is a lesson to all of us; don't be afraid to have a go yourself. The result is potential large cost saving, or even an ecologically sound way of avoiding buying new stuff. Thanks.

They don't want efficiency where machines can be easily repaired, they want as much money from consumers as possible.

Ah thanks for the insight. Another commenter made a similar remark. To me, this silicon is not very hard to remove so a DIY servicing is not rendered impossible by it, but I guess it's not worth the time for a real technician to do this procedure for a paying client.

@@goldflemming4912 trust me the silicon on mine was near impossible to remove, my machine is a little different from yours and I removed my board from the plastic casing without cutting the frame, I injected isopropyl alcohol with a syringe and the board eventually lifted out with a little prying with a plastic prying tool. Then I cleared the silicon off and this took a while, seemed like it was baked on! Anyways I inspected the board under my microscope and sure enough micro-fractures everywhere around the through-hole components, this is due to two reasons. One - cold solder joins, and two - lead-free solder. Combined these two contribute to the premature failure of the board. After using some quality Amtech NC-559 flux and leaded solder I re-soldered all the through-hole components again with leaded solder. Re-assembled the machine and it has been working for almost a month now without any more issues. It completes all cycles and programs, while in the past it would get interrupted mid-program and stop. Simple enough fix for someone who has a bit of time on their hands and doesn't mind getting their hands dirty. This repair saved me a quoted 140 euros for a replacement control board.