how many people remember the first Indesit machine to come over. It was £99 which was very cheap for the time. mechanical timer, pump was mounted on the front of the main motor which was induction so to pump out machine had to go into spin full of water. That meant it had a spin speed of 400 rpm. its was almost dripping when it came out
very simple machine to service, coins in the pump were common and often destroyed the impeller which was rubber held on by a left hand bolt. Or the coin stayed in there that long that it rubbed through the aluminium pump housing. All really simple and cheap to fix
Dave