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Anyone ever heard of a Bendix LT. I think it is a very old machine.
I was clearing out some old boxes, when I found some old spares. The boss tells me they’re from a Bendix LT. This stuff he was using 30 years ago, when he first started.
Mountings, couplings and solinoids the size of my head!
Should I throw this stuff away, or sell it to a museum?
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Now you’re talking back to the days when washing machines where built of solid stuff. When those of us that had the skill set to repair them where men and not todays whingers.
Alex, Oldtog and I broke our teeth on the likes and if you didn’t get a hernia from lifting one of these beasts, you were lucky. Oldtog has the service manual for an LT if you need a copy Goatboy, whereas I have ‘the knowledge’ confined to everlasting memory :rotfl:
Martin
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Need any spares? I can’t believe the size of these solinoids!
I’ll show this to the boss, and see if he’ll have a chat about the good ol’ day an dat! When engineers used to fix stuff with grease, oil and skill; instead of just changing parts like all these wusses do nowadays!
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Opps! I souldn’t of mentioned it to the boss!
He started telling me stories of three engineers carry one up a fire escape to a third-floor flat. Then he dug out his old service manual. 🙄 It was very dog-eared and smelt worse than him!
Then he spends half an hour going through it with me, showing me the diagrams for gear assy’s and telling me about common faults, like tub gaskets and suspension solinoids.
‘Oh yeah, I remember when they first came out, that dryer assy fan would run all the time making one hell of a noise! So then they put a solinoid and clutch….’
‘..and you see that there? That’s where you’d drain the oil out of the motor, and that’s where you’d fill it back up with oil again.’
Sorry Martin 😉
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Martin wrote:Now you’re talking back to the days when washing machines where built of solid stuff. When those of us that had the skill set to repair them where men and not todays whingers.
Reminds me of the time when the service staff from BDA ( Hotpoint), GEC & English Electric was merged in the 70’s. I was struck by the fact that with one exception, all the Engish Electric engineers looked like prop forwards. After doing a few bearing repairs on the old English Electric Liberators I soon knew why. These machines also had pump & clutch solenoids the size of housebricks.I often used to wonder how the one very slightly built EE engineer, a chap called Bob Stoddart used to manage a drum removal on these machines, ( I had worked for 6 years full time on a farm before joining Hotpoint so had the required strength ), it turned out that he used to take his wife along with him whenever he had to remove the drum on a Liberator. 🙂
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Ho, Ho, Ho. Those were the days when boys were boys and men were men. 😈
To move a Bendix LT was easy 😀 , pull down the flap at the front, remove the lifting device from its location and slot it over a leaver and push down to lower the wheels front and back on one side and do exactly the same with the other. As you are removing the machine keep an eye on the drain hose. In those day’s the drain hose was along the floor and drained direct outside to a small covered drain. The machine used a solenoid to open up a hole from the tub to pump hose to pump where the impellor on the motor swept the water away. Any then you jently pulled out the machine. Easy peasy 😕 😕 .
Note: these machines had cast iron weights on just to ensure no bounce on spin, just like the ones of today 😕 😕 .
The washer dryers early ones with bowden cables and pullies were fun to work on (not) . Also do not forget the Bendix bolt down machines, had to remove the nuts on centre left and centre right, then tilt machine forward and drag out. To replace these was fun, and many a flooring was damaged. Have never worked out why though.!!
Real quick jobs those.
Oldtog
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iadom wrote:, it turned out that he used to take his wife along with him whenever he had to remove the drum on a Liberator. 🙂
Ahhh! You must have missed out on all those “Drum removal slide plates” that we Hotpoint blokes at the Reading Depot knicked from the English Electric Factory in Huyton (Liverpool) when we all went up on a “training fest”……… They demonstrated the art of easy ‘Liberator Drum Removal’ using these ‘slides’ and said that “…they were as rare as hens teeth actually………….!!”
So we put all they had into our Transit Van and headed south!!!!!! :rotl:Martin
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Martin wrote:
iadom wrote:
, it turned out that he used to take his wife along with him whenever he had to remove the drum on a Liberator. 🙂Ahhh! You must have missed out on all those “Drum removal slide plates” that we Hotpoint blokes at the Reading Depot knicked from the English Electric Factory in Huyton (Liverpool) when we all went up on a “training fest”……… They demonstrated the art of easy ‘Liberator Drum Removal’ using these ‘slides’ and said that “…they were as rare as hens teeth actually………….!!”
So we put all they had into our Transit Van and headed south!!!!!! :rotl:Martin
No I remember the slide plates very well, we inherited at least 10 EE engineers in our area and could always borrow one. Unfortunately I was issued with the black tubular slide that supeceded the large flat slide, nowhere near as good, but they did fit the later 1823/6 Zanussi made Hotpoint’s.
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