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Re: What was the best machine ?
eastlmark wrote:and made by AEG IIRC!
I’m afraid you don’t Mark….100{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} Bosch/Siemens stabled. 🙂
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Does amyone remember the Zoppas one?
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Wasn’t the Zoppas the same as the hotpoint 1826 ?
Anyone remember the hotpoint 1600Re: What was the best machine ?
IIRC…
The Zoppas 1826 was a Zanussi Z218T (?) clone that was sold by Zanussi under the Zoppas brand and rebranded for Hotpoint.
But, that’s while Noah was a boy, the Red Sea hadn’t yet parted and I am way too young to be quoted as being 100{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} correct.
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Lawrence wrote:Wasn’t the Zoppas the same as the hotpoint 1826 ?
Anyone remember the hotpoint 1600The Hotpoint 1826 & 1823 Zanussi clones really upset a lot of Hotpoint customers, the 1826 had a spin speed of around 560rpm, the 1823 was 370rpm. :rolls:
It was introduced to keep the brand name in the pulic eye whilst the old factories were refurbished ( alledgedly ) and before the totally new plant at Colwyn Bay came onstream.
I actually liked working on the Hotpoint 1600, a very advanced machine in its day, 1100 spin when most other auto’s managed 800 if you were lucky, Sadly the bean counters got at it before it was released, cut all the specs to the bone and ruined what would have been a good machine. 🙁 These predated the Zanussi clones by 6 or 7 years at least.
Even now it looks futuristic compared with modern machines.
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iadom wrote:
Lawrence wrote:
Even now it looks futuristic compared with modern machines.The looks sold it in their 1000’s but boy oh boy what a crap machine throughout it’s entire production run. Every machine sold broke down sooner than later. From the ruddy light bulb and jamming timer knob to endless blown PMC’s and backplates falling apart. Crap personified to a level Hotpoint maintained ever since that day.
Looking back over the ‘Arny Weinstock” days, he presided over the art of producing products that looked good but when compared to other makes where cheap unreliable junk. When Merloni took over, he encapsulated that technique and brought it to a whole new level. From kosher crap to spaghetti and meatballs. 🙁
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first ever m/c i reconned in 1980 hpt 1600 lasted a couple of years
just had a 95 series 800 spin in the workshop still sound this is the one with the door catch on the outside of the door must be getting on for 30 years old shame the wf wmd series isnt better as customers like the look of emRe: What was the best machine ?
By best do you mean for the client or the Service dept.
I have no idea and neither does anybody here as to which Hotpoint or Hoover was best for the client unless they washed and calculated results for several tens of thousands of appliances.
As for the best for us in service, I’d say every Hotpoint and Hoover ever made as they regularly broke down. Which is why they where the choice for independents to Recon and resell with a nice profit thanks to cheap components.
This appears to be more a topic of which decade you lived in was better than the current one you live in. 😆
I have to say reliability results within a controlled lab to correct specs is very different to MRS Ignorance of today let loose.
I’d love to get a load of brand new appliances from each decade from the 70’s to the late 90’s and give them to current known peeps, I bet a wad of cash they wouldn’t perform any better than today’s appliances if not worse when comparing energy costs.
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I had a lot of respect for Hoover’s A3058 800 spin, extremely simple, cruzet timer with old style reliable timer motors on. Pretty reliable and lasted a long time.
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the old zanussi washcraft series were very reliable Z915t-z959t. Anybody remember their first dishwasher the em614, this had a door lock that you had to turn a lever to start.
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Really interesting thread but I must say that it depends if you live in a hard water area? The zanussi jetsystems were an absolute nightmare in very hard water areas.
Best machine for me has to be the hoover keymatic …don’t know the model number but it makes me think of my lovely Mum on a sunday morning with her new fangled washing machine that worked like magic ha ha
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Ahh yes the old keymatic.. First machine I ever remember seeing my mum use, followed by a hotpoint twin tub… Sunday washing took about 4 hours in that thing..the days when stuff was boiled..shame we couldn’t throw the spuds in as we’ll!
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