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Clearing out the usual junk from my loft and found the following, if anyone wants them FOC I will bring them along to the meeting on Friday.
I also found a load of old Hotpoint washer manuals and various microwave manuals
John
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Blimey when I think of all the hotpoint ones I threw away back in the early nineties
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I must admit I once searched eBay to see if my old Hoover/Hotpoint/Bosch/Zanussi manuals had any worth? When I found that they weren’t worth a carrot I threw them all in the recycling wheelie bin. Johnny Mac has held out longer than I and is brave enough to confess he still owns a wheelie bin full…..nice one! 😀
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I once knew a guy in Scotland who was into really old machines and had a small museum above his shop. I was wondering if anyone had a similar set up down here.
I started to look through the old A4 folder manuals and it brought back memories of repairing hoover 375’s in the shop, those were the days when a brush roll came in about 30 bits and every part was available, I also found a wiring diagram for the keymatic timers that used to terrify me when I 1st started in the trade, if you dropped a wire you had to search through the spaghetti to try and find it.
I also loved the A5 books that came later where you had all the information for all the Hoover models made that year in one book.
I just had a thought, these paper manuals came out before the microfiche of the 90’s most of the young guys on here wont have saw a microfiche either :rotfl:
John
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Always remember the HOTPOINT linear diagrams. They where fantastic for circuit testing
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Do you remember the Hotpoint ‘mini manual’ ?
The original standard manuals of the 60’s came inside thick vellum covers, red for laundry, blue for refrigeration, pale yellow for vacs, ironers etc. The mini manual was a single green ring binder about two thirds normal size that just contained parts diagrams for the whole range. A bit like a hard copy version of Partfinder.
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Andy jones wrote:Microfiche is the future 🙂
Yeah and they say computer screens are bad for your eyes!
Ever tried a field microfiche viewer?
K.
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kwatt wrote:
Andy jones wrote:
Microfiche is the future 🙂Yeah and they say computer screens are bad for your eyes!
Ever tried a field microfiche viewer?
K.
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kwatt wrote:
Andy jones wrote:
Microfiche is the future 🙂Yeah and they say computer screens are bad for your eyes!
Ever tried a field microfiche viewer?
K.
Still got mine….
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I remember being impressed at how the older guys used to be able to find parts so quickly on the microfiche, never got as quick as those lads.
I cant believe anyone could miss that stuff.
I think you would be best taking those service manuals from the 80’s to the recycling depo John.
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