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Summary: Care and maintenance of the Wanda the Whale above ground pool cleaner and learn to replace its wings in this free maintenance video.
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Allyn Christopher Allyn Christopher has decades of experience in the swimming pool industry. He managed a pool store for over 10 years, and is a master at repairing cleaners a... read more
One of the common parts to replace and check on your Wanda the Whale, is her wings. Now I know, whales don't normally have wings, but this one does, and it's got little wear marks on the side of it. And when it rubs to or past those wear marks, it's time to replace them. And how we do that, well it's fairly straightforward, but a little tricky. So what we're going to do is put her up on her side, and using a small screwdriver, a little flathead there, you want to be able to find the tiny little plug right here. Now, you might think that you can take it off, "Oh, I can wiggle it out and do it without removing the plug off the hooks", don't do it. What you're going to end up doing is either cracking the new ones, or breaking off the hook, which means an expensive pod replacement, they don't have one, they come in two, and just because the hook fell off, it isn't worth it for the second it takes to take out the pod plug. And then from there, and you can see, is just pop it over the hook on both sides, and she comes off. And obviously we just repeat the procedure to install a new one. Over here, now you can see a little peg there, start over the peg and lock it in place there, follow the other one, pod plug in, also protects the screw inside but also helps retain the wings. Little love tap, and repeat them on the other side. The thing to be careful of is that they do have a right and a left stamped on them and so do the pods, do make sure you get the right wings on the right side, and you'll have a flying good cleaner.