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Re: What is the most useful tool in your toolbox?
kwatt wrote:
iadom wrote:
PS. Any reason why the latest posts are dated Tuesday 22nd March when it is Monday 21st ???In your profile set the timezone to GMT or GMT+ 1 hour. 😉
K.
Thanks for that, guess you don’t recognise the spanner then, 🙂
Re: What is the most useful tool in your toolbox?
Very similar to the ones we used on the old Zanussi spyder the three inner bolts.
Kirk
eastlmark wrote:Is it for nuts on top of suspension rods? I would guess Hoover or Hotpoint?
1 point for Hotpoint but you need to go a long way back. As a clue I started at Hotpoint late 1968.
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Surely there must be some other ‘old gits’ around here.
It is in fact a Hotpoint Mark1 twin tub pump spanner. The very first twin tub that Hotpoint produced in the early to mid 1950’s was called the Mark1. At the time Hoover dismissed it as the “Wishy,Washy washer’. It was advertised as having a no tangle action unlike the Hoover twin tub which tended to tie the clothes in knots.
The black bakelite gyrator did oscillate very slowly on the Mk1. It had an oiled filled gearbox with integrated stator. On the MK1, the wash pump was bolted directly onto the gearbox and it was impossible to remove one of the two mounting bolts with a conventional spanner. Hence the MK1 pump spanner. This machine also had a unique heater indicator, all later models used a neon but this machine had a household 40 watt bulb mounted on the chassis and long half inch diameter glass rod leading up to the top control panel. Several versions of this machine followed and became known as the 1400 model. All these later models had a faster wash action with a different gearbox and a wash pump driven via a small spring and collar from the stator cooling fan. The spin pump was driven by a flexible drive, a HL 2108, the very same drive that was used on the Hotpoint Top Loader when the two pole motor was introduced in the 1970’sRe: What is the most useful tool in your toolbox?
iadom wrote:Surely there must be some other ‘old gits’ around here.
An endless supply mate. :rotfl:
K.
Re: What is the most useful tool in your toolbox?
got to be my pointy nose pliers with right angle on end, ideal for hotpoint brushes but also for those plynths where you cant get your fingers in anywhere, find a small gap poke them in turn and pull brilliant!. Then theres the hose clips they are great for them too.
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has to be my ‘spanner on a stick’….an 8mm socket on the end of a flexible drive with moulded handle! It was made for a national service company i worked for 20 years ago to fit the inner door seal clamp band on their own brand washer!
Very useful for all those awkward spots…zanussi lids in tight installations, neff/bosch d/w elements etc…not to mention the odd door seal 😉Re: What is the most useful tool in your toolbox?
Ah!!!!!
The old Servis board remodeller. 😉
TonyC
Re: What is the most useful tool in your toolbox?
That would have been handy today, trying to get the stupid slab of melamine off the top of a Hoover Performa. I used a G cramp to clamp a block of wood on top of the back edge of the lid and knocked hell out of said block with a hammer. Each blow slid the lid out by about 1mm so it was a time consuming business! 👿
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