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You know we really should write all this up and put up a potted history in an article at some point of some of the more “colourful” machines we’ve come across. 😉
K.
Re: When Adam was a lad!
Not wanting to join in the “old codgers club” here, but that picture of the Colston washer drier did evoke some horrid nightmares of water pouring through what was basicly a fan heater buit into the door. In fact any Colston Ariston washer driers were nightmare material, they used to put the blower motor in all sorts of weird and vunerable places, oh god I am gonna get sick at thought…
And it had a weird yellow transulcent plastic stretch v belt for the clutch motor. What about the Ariston 948/1258 series? Surely a spiritual successor! Blower motor at the bottom of the duct in front of the drum, door gasket a complete s@d to fit and as for the plastic clutch pulley……..
I think I just aged a few more years and lost some more hair,Penguin.
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Lawrence wrote:Martin do you collect old brochures or something?
No Lawrence, I’m just a sentimental old fool that remembers the old days when ‘field service engineers’ had it tough. The pictures come from Internet Archives on the subject.
Martin
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Clearing out the garage over the weekend I have 2 Hotpoint Countess Pumps a slightly corroded Relay and hundreds of Operating Lever Clips!!!!!
Shame to throw them away really 😥
Martin
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Talking about in the garage I’ve got two antique wooden Machines lovely peace of simple engineering.
1. Miele round tub with wankle handle .
2. Ewbank as in the carpet sweepers this was so well made and designed if they had fitted a motor we would never have any work.
Had them in the shop and local Bank for years, but I suppose the exposed cogs and pulley’s! you would be prosecuted or someone would make a claim for trapping their fingers.
Mind you if anyone wants them let me know they are just getting ruined now.
Kirk
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What about the Hotpoint Princess with the hand wringer, the TP series table ironers, the changing names of technical info. At one time called F.D.I.A.I.S, Fault Diagnosis And Information Sheet. When I left in 1978 they had become T.I.B’s Technical Information Bulletins. For a short period they where called Field Information Bulletins, but when it was pointed out that we were going into customers houses with a large folder with FIB’s on the front it was quickly dropped.
Anyone remember the John Cleese training video with the classic quote “who sold you this then?” 😀
Perkins diesel engined Transits that siezed up if you didn’t change the oil every five minutes. 😳
Thankfully I only ever had to repair one GEC twin tub, the one with a square tub with the spinner in the corner.
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What about the nylon straps on the ada coronation, the crap goblin twin tubs with delco brush motors each side, using boiling water to expand and release the spin can from the tapered shaft of the rolls rapide, the changing of the ocv on the burco 21, and remember the old parnall semi auto washer that used to save the hot water ready for the next load! 😯
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iadom wrote:Thankfully I only ever had to repair one GEC twin tub, the one with a square tub with the spinner in the corner.
I used to strip those down and respray the cabinets and sold about 10 fully ‘reconned’. The door handle on my workshop door was one of the chrome pump operating levers :rotfl:
Whilst rummaging in the bottom of my toolbox for that Hotpoint ‘bent spanner’ (I sent Ken a photo 😉 ) I also have a drive cube ‘reamer tool’ still in its cardboard box and wrapped in waxed paper 8)
Try this link for yet another ‘sentimental journey’….Remember the Bendix A, B and D series auto’s that we bolted to the floor with 5 inch rag bolts????
http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/
Use their ‘search’ for Bendix and others
Martin
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Martin wrote:
Whilst rummaging in the bottom of my toolbox for that Hotpoint ‘bent spanner’ (I sent Ken a photo 😉 ) I also have a drive cube ‘reamer tool’ still in its cardboard box and wrapped in waxed paper 8)
Martin
I still have my reamer, it was very useful for opening the bolt holes on new Top loader support tubes that often had to be widened to allow the bolts to pass through. Also have a Hotpoint supplied ‘C’ spanner. Its original use was for unscrewing the heater boss on the very early Mk1 twin tub and older, small wringer machines. I remember using a similar tool as a lad on the crankshaft of my bicycle, it is still ideal for getting tight fill hoses off in awkward places.
What about the designer overalls, a one piece boiler suit in a lovely pale blue colour. 😳
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