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Re: New Hotpoint top loader for sale?
I’ll bet you didn’t have the square, open block with a threaded bar that was used to drive the pins out of the gyrator drive cubes on the 1200/1400 wash gearboxes. 🙂
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Those where the days of ‘proper’ fixing, not parts swapping. 😛
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Indeed.
I doubt that the last couple decades worth will be looked back at with the same fondness.
K.
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I used to love stripping twin tubs and top loader, used to do about 4-5 power units a week in rural Devon, could almost do one blindfolded
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Oh the nostalgia of it all. Monty Python’esk “when I was a lad”….”back in my day”.
I wouldn’t mind betting Jim is still changing the odd gyrator cube ‘up north’. I have a few kits left and a brand new reamer should you run short Jim. Though flogged my last countess pump on eBay in December. I only have 1509 pumps left (and one 1850 timer knob) 🙂
Re: New Hotpoint top loader for sale?
kwatt wrote:Indeed.
I doubt that the last couple decades worth will be looked back at with the same fondness.
K.
yeah right.
quote from 2035:
” oh we had such fun cutting those tabs off the Bosch tubs to change the bearings, those were the days”
“show me your smart card reader!”
“I remember back then when guys went around to houses and mended washing machines”
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For anyone interested this is the 44 year old 1504 up and running as smooth as you like. 8)
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Better than anything on T.V. tonight. Infinitely enjoyable viewing. Being of the “old school”, I am now slightly aroused by watching that!
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