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A rare 115 volt VENTED combo
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Post# 242218   10/13/2007 at 16:20 (6,038 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

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Post# 242220 , Reply# 1   10/13/2007 at 16:42 (6,038 days old) by peteski50 (New York)        
Combo!

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This looks nice but again it's a question of the service.
Peter


Post# 242450 , Reply# 2   10/15/2007 at 06:55 (6,036 days old) by miele4848 ()        
Is it vented?

I've never seen a vented WD Combo, every one here in Europe has a condensor! anyway, seems to be not very relayable, doesn' t look well made! I would be interested in how long a cycle takes at 115 Volts

Post# 242459 , Reply# 3   10/15/2007 at 07:19 (6,036 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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How could you go wrong? It's in "immaculate conception"...

Is that Mary I see in the glass door?


Post# 242460 , Reply# 4   10/15/2007 at 07:20 (6,036 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        

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~I've never seen a vented WD Combo.

My Italian-made Comb-o-Matic in he 1980' was 110v and vented.

Still a finer mesh lint-screen and a 4" (100mm +/-) standard dryer hose connection would have been desireable.

When the only belt became stretched, and was slipping, the replacement was an ordnary vehicle fan-belt which did the trick very nicely.


Post# 242463 , Reply# 5   10/15/2007 at 07:32 (6,036 days old) by hotpointwf220 ()        

part of it is made by the indesit company because of the drum for example.

Post# 242494 , Reply# 6   10/15/2007 at 11:48 (6,036 days old) by dj-gabriele ()        

Yes, it looks very much Indesit made but I never seen something like that in Italy, all the combos are condensor! I'd love to have a vented combo available around! (at 230V)

Post# 242501 , Reply# 7   10/15/2007 at 12:34 (6,036 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        
230 volt vented combo

dj-gabriele: As a friend's mother used to say, "and the people in hell want ice water."

Post# 242502 , Reply# 8   10/15/2007 at 12:38 (6,036 days old) by dj-gabriele ()        

Yup, sadly right Tom!

Post# 242537 , Reply# 9   10/15/2007 at 16:55 (6,036 days old) by dubstar85 (Glasgow, Scotland)        
Vented Combos in the EU

Creda and Bendix made vented combos in the 1980s. i saw one of the bendix ones outside a house and the creda one was looking through the instructions one night. Creda were pretty cool!

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Post# 242545 , Reply# 10   10/15/2007 at 18:07 (6,036 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii)        

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Stay away from the Splendeed!!!The company that makes them almost put Equator out of business by using the wrong voltage on their control buttons and the timer.It caused the machines exported here to catch on fire.Equator had to eat 3000 of them.They decided to build their own after that happened and are back on track.Stay away from Splendeed!!!!!

Post# 242581 , Reply# 11   10/15/2007 at 21:02 (6,036 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        

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~I would be interested in how long a cycle takes at 115 Volts

10 pounds (4.5kg) Took me about 2 hours. The washer spun @ 900 R.P.M. I believe.

In retrospect that was overloaded for the dryer's abilites/size. LOTSA wrinkling!

My only real complaint with my combo was was the linting-up of the house; the filter was awful.


Post# 243164 , Reply# 12   10/18/2007 at 10:18 (6,033 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Chuck, The situation must have been corrected by now. There are no current news reports or appliance industry reports of any more combo fires. I do not remember hearing you sound alarms about this before you took your current job. It is a shame that they made that mistake, but it is history so maybe it is time to turn this loose. They would not still be in business if they had not corrected the problem, especially with the strong safety and health regulations of most European countries. While I wish you success in your job, I, frankly, would rather take my chances with something made in Europe than support China in their quest to take over the world although, given our government and business leaders, it's probably a futile fight at this point.


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