Golden Oldies

[Goatboy]

Re: Golden Oldies

iadom wrote:Come on Paul,

Goatboy, when I’m behind a keyboard 😉

I completely reconditioned (paint and everything) one of those 1930’s Hoovers once, but the oldest washer?

I got a customer with one of those Hotpoints with a purple door. And he still has it :tup: And I keep patching it up! (Tight sod won’t buy a new one)

[Martin]

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Customer wanted to know if I fixed AEG machines? She said her machine was over 30 years old and this was the first time it had gone wrong? I called in on my way home yesterday just to suss it out as I’ve never seen a 30 year old AEG anything before. 😕

In fact it was an AEG ‘Princess’ purchased in August 1976 and sticking in a new 40mf capacitor got it up and running again! 🙂

[wilf]

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the old hotpoint countess and hoover 3174 were my bread and butter with hoover 3236 (oh those GTR timers!) hotpoint 1450 1805 indesit L5 & L6 ………………having said that I once went to a Thor top loader with a removable aluminum drum that could be exchanged with a wire contraption to turn it into a dishwasher!

wilf

[iadom]

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wilf wrote:the old hotpoint countess

What, you have never done a Hotpoint Princess, or the original Empress in mid green without a cabinet. Or the original Hotpoint 1400 twin tub, the ‘wishy, washy washer’ as Hoover disparagingly called it. The heater neon indicator was actually a 60 watt household light bulb on the chassis with a long glass rod going up to the control panel. 😀

Jim.

[andy_art_trigg]

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wilf wrote:.. with hoover 3236 (oh those GTR timers!)

They were the easiest timer ever to replace though Wilf 🙂 Remember the MTH timers before them? I also have a vague recollection that when Hoover changed from a 3 post suspension to a 2 post suspension there was a wiring modification involving swaping two wires round – one was pink I think.

[aqualectric]

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Indesit K5, L5, L6 – rebuilt loads of them in my formative years. The Philco / Bendix machines – 7142 and 7147 were built like tanks. The old Philco-Ford machines with the soap drawer stupidly placed in the back left corner of the lid. :con: And those lovely Bendix LT’s………. 👿
Happy days…… :innocent:

Steve.

[maltheviking]

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I can remember going to one of those early Empress’s, said she bought it 1946! I had a good look around it and couldn’t find the joints where they took the gun of the top and the tracks of the bottom 😆 bloody solid though, couldn’t do much with it as Hotpoint had made it obsolite 😥

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