Hotpoint 9534A Rinse Hold Issue

[supermaticjames]

Hi guys,

Picked up a lovely 9534, I did have one but it was worse for wear so it was dismissed. My new, much better one is in better condition. It did need a timer and a motor but it works perfect now. My only issue is that the Rinse Hold button does not do what it clearly states. Now I don’t really use this option but me being a lover of all things old I would insist on having it functional along with the associated red neon. The wiring is all original and not a single wire is scorched, marked or damages so I don’t the problem being there. Could be a loose connection but I’m nearly sure that all connections were snug. The only thing I can think of now is the button being faulty or the timer being faulty but this timer was taken from a working machine (9525 I believe). I did read about cutting a link wire in some timers but I could be imagining.

Regards, James

[Andy jones]

Re: Hotpoint 9534A Rinse Hold Issue

Don’t know if you’ve tried but the rinse hold only works on the delicate progs. 3,4and6. Never had one of those fail tbh

[supermaticjames]

Re: Hotpoint 9534A Rinse Hold Issue

Hi Andy, the machine is not plumbed in so I just tried it empty by selecting the bow tie symbol before the delicate short spin. I even changed the button bank and checked the connections again but the machine continues to act as if it was a 9514 with the manual rinse hold where you had to advance the dial manually. The timer shouldn’t be done for as it came out of a working machine and it is the correct model of timer.

Quite confused now… 😯

[iadom]

Re: Hotpoint 9534A Rinse Hold Issue

I wish you had told me that in your last e mail James. 😉

You need to have it plumbed in, it will not stop on rinse hold without any water in it, it needs to advance itself to the rinse hold position whilst full of water. It is very difficult, nigh on impossible to move to a rinse hold manually.

As I have mentioned to you in the past and as Andy has confirmed, faults on this part of the cycle are almost unheard of.

Jim.

PS. I think that is supposed to be a small flower to indicate the last rinse/fabric conditioner (nice floral smell ) inlet, it’s not a bow tie. 🙂

PPS. Timer from a 9525 is not a direct replacement for a 9534.

[supermaticjames]

Re: Hotpoint 9534A Rinse Hold Issue

Hi Jim,

Funnily enough I was starting to think that it had to have water in it for rinse hold to function. The only reason I thought I could make it do the rinse hold while empty was because I can make my 9537 do it but that has a much different timer in it altogether. I will try filling it with water on Friday to see what happens. There is a bow tie after the flower symbol on the dial to show users of machine with no rinse hold button/neon that it is paused. I am not 100{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} sure if it was a 9525 or not as I stripped it about a year ago, all I know is that it is the same number 904/2199/05 timer that came out of this 9534. Unless there are variations of the 904/2199/05 timer I would have thought that this is the exact same?

Regards, James.

[Martin]

Re: Hotpoint 9534A Rinse Hold Issue

supermaticjames wrote:There is a bow tie after the flower symbol on the dial to show users of machine with no rinse hold button/neon that it is paused.

Bow Tie eh James, is it posh where you live? :clown:

[supermaticjames]

Re: Hotpoint 9534A Rinse Hold Issue

I don’t know what the proper name for the symbol is but I heard people call it a bow tie and does resemble one so I call it that haha. When I was growing up with our 9537 I used to think the rinse symbols were clouds. To find out when I got my first classic Hotpoint that they were actually shower heads was something LOL!

[Martin]

Re: Hotpoint 9534A Rinse Hold Issue

…..and the spin symbol a Swiss roll?

[supermaticjames]

Re: Hotpoint 9534A Rinse Hold Issue

I never thought of it like that you know 😯 I knew what most of the symbols meant, in fact I knew my ICTL codes from an early age.

Just thinking of this brings up the nice memories I have of loading, setting and watching our Hotpoint 9537 under Mum’s watch. I also remember breaking the door release, pushing the mains neon lens through the fascia and chipping the side strip but those where tokens of love from me LOL!

We had a TL22 as well, that arrived when the house was built in time for my birth. I don’t think it ever needed any repairs throughout the 13 years it lasted. I used to select the buzzer when Mum wasn’t watching and a little later when it finished that annoying and obedient buzzzzzzzzzzzz went through the house and she was call me a rascal hahaha. 😆

Then there was my Aunt’s WD22 which is another machine I favoured because it has the gloss plastics and the hybrid timer as well as my Gran’s 9404 which I spent many times sitting on top of as a child. 😛

I’m lucky to have found an example of these machines for my collection so that I can relive these memories. I have a 9537, WD23 and two Supermatics, all that is needed now is a De luxe dryer model. 🙂

[Martin]

Re: Hotpoint 9534A Rinse Hold Issue

Jim could help you there, his little town is full of them! 😀

[iadom]

Re: Hotpoint 9534A Rinse Hold Issue

It’s shipping them over to Ireland that’s the problem. And most of the ones I see are still economically repairable. 😉

[supermaticjames]

Re: Hotpoint 9534A Rinse Hold Issue

The dryers tend to last forever over here. There was one of those little Creda compacts from the 1970s in the scrap not long ago. I would have loved it but it was battered and it had water in the drum so it was dismissed knowing one will turn up again. The De Luxe dryer will turn up for me sometime. I change my classic machines a lot, usually when I find a model that is more suited to what I have in mind for the collection. I am kind of hoping that the 9325 that currently resides on top of my 9537 will become a 9335 some day :)I have a 95132 New Generation machine but I’d much prefer a 95450 or something 😛 There’s always that purple Hotpoint that needs finding too. God knows how many will pass over the threshold this year. 😀

[Andy jones]

Re: Hotpoint 9534A Rinse Hold Issue

Still service an 1850 style with the purple door. Still going strong after all these years. I replace brushes every couple of years and that’s about it

[supermaticjames]

Re: Hotpoint 9534A Rinse Hold Issue

Hi all,

Got round to getting the machine plumbed in and low and behold the rinse hold option does work! Thank you all for your expertise as per usual. Here are some pictures of it alongside my much loved WD23P.

Andy I’d be so lucky to see one of those in person. It proves that if given the proper care, these old ones can out last any modern competitor by decades!

P.S. You might be wondering why my 9534 has a 95×0 drawer front, I just simply prefer having the electronic symbol on it.

[Martin]

Re: Hotpoint 9534A Rinse Hold Issue

Neat, apart from that filthy dirty sticker still stuck on the lid 20 yrs later. 🙁

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