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As a spin off from another project 😉 I was just wondering what is the oldest machine you have worked on in an official capacity.
I have to hold my hand up and admit to doing a couple of service calls on this model, first produced in 1923. 😯 😥 😆
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Is that the machine or you that the title refers to Jim? 😆
Thye oldest machine (I can remember) that I worked on was one of th eold Zanussi’s which were cloned under Hotpoint. But then I’m just a young whipper snapper.
K.
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oldest machine i ever ever worked on was a hotpoint 1800 i think it wa called smallish thing with the tiniest workspace ever inside it
was for a lovely old lady who could not fit anything bigger in
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I’m hoping vacuum cleaners count. I worked on one of the original Hoover vacuum cleaners from (what looked like) the 1920s. It was similar to the 119, had a wooden handle, and was black and silver.
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DDSDDS wrote:oldest machine i ever ever worked on was a hotpoint 1800 i think it wa called smallish thing with the tiniest workspace ever inside it
was for a lovely old lady who could not fit anything bigger in
then i am only 23I still have many of those machines in good order on my patch. Did brushes in a one last week, almost 28 years old and still in sound order.
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kwatt wrote:Is that the machine or you that the title refers to Jim? 😆
Thye oldest machine (I can remember) that I worked on was one of th eold Zanussi’s which were cloned under Hotpoint. But then I’m just a young whipper snapper.
K.
That was a bit of a nightmare at the time. The Hotpoint machines on sale then (early 70’s) where either the 1830 ( an all white version of the 1100 rpm spin 1600) or the 750/800 rpm spin 1850 range. The Hotpoint badged Zanussi machines where the 1826 & 1823, the former had a spin speed of 560 rpm and the latter an earth shattering 370 rpm. 😥 You can imagine the amount of grief we got from customers who thought they had bought a British made Hotpoint. The complaints of poor spin far outweighed todays moaning about extended wash times.
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iadom wrote:………almost 28 years old and still in sound order.
Talking about yourself again Jim 😆
Greg
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the repair i did was a mains filter it had blown up looked like confetti inside took ages to clean but new one fitted years ago still see lady she lives local so i assume stilll kicking
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I used to go to an old lass who had a Hotpoint Empress & I think a Princess. She washed in one & ringed ’em out in the other! Best thing was they where farmers, so she struggled with these ancient machines & hubby drove about in a brand new Jag!!!! When ever we did any work on ’em, he would always want the bill made for a repair on the farm’s power washer!
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Hoover 0307 was the first machine I ever wielded a screwdriver to fixing way back in 1965. 🙁
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I have in the past worked on all of these.
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Come on Paul, own up, it was one of these wasn’t it. 😆
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hotpoint countess arrow switches and power wringer rebiulds, hoover 3174 ocv,s and resilient bearings, indesit L5 pumps boots and bearings, hoover 3236 MTH and GTR timers I could go on but it makes me feel old
wilf 😕
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Rolls Concorde & Rapide twin tubs
Imperial washing machines, made by Zanussi 1970 ish. Then the L1 & L2 in 1973 & 1974
3236H & 3243H Matchbox range Hoover machines were the latest thing.
Cut my teeth on the 3334 twin tub and progressed to the 3314L that used to leak from the spin can where it was sealed onto the top frame. 3224H Sloping front keymatic.
I could go on all day.
Alex
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