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| Post# 406187 1/15/2010 at 05:15 (5,212 days old) by timon90 (Norway) | ||
Hi folks. It's been a really long time since last time I was active her. But here comes the "bomb": I've got a Hoover Keymatic:D The model with the round clock, instead of the timeline programme indicator. It hasnt been used since 1980!! Dos anyone here know where I can get a new doorseal for this? Thanks | ||
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Post# 406193 , Reply# 2 1/15/2010 at 06:19 (5,212 days old) by chestermikeuk  (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Keymatic
Hi Tom, congrats on finding a keymatic, do you have the manuals as well!!! the door boots are NLA as Mark said, and even so if you found one would probably be mush after all this time!!! we are currently experimenting with different boots here both old and new..the seventies hoover boots (generic) do fit the tub but are small around the outer cabinet ... Why dont you try some new replacement boots for size and see!!! you might strike lucky, and if you do you`ll certainly have a few customers!!! is it working besides the seal?? Cheers, Mike | ||
| Post# 406196 , Reply# 3 1/15/2010 at 06:54 (5,212 days old) by keymatic (London / UK) | ||
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| Post# 406198 , Reply# 4 1/15/2010 at 07:02 (5,212 days old) by electron1100 (England) | ||
KEymatics | ||
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Post# 406200 , Reply# 5 1/15/2010 at 07:25 (5,212 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 406201 , Reply# 6 1/15/2010 at 07:27 (5,212 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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| Post# 406219 , Reply# 7 1/15/2010 at 09:03 (5,212 days old) by electron1100 (England) | ||
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Mikes Keys | ||
| Post# 406303 , Reply# 9 1/15/2010 at 16:26 (5,212 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
Sigh..... | ||
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Post# 406531 , Reply# 10 1/16/2010 at 15:08 (5,211 days old) by brisnat81 (Brisbane Australia) |
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Mine luckily still has an intact boot, however I need a Keyplate that'll engage the heater as it came with a Hoover AU special Cold Fill Cold wash jobbie. Does anyone have a Hot + Cold fill or Cold fill and heat keyplate that they'd be prepared to part with for Love and or money :) Reader is as below 
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Post# 406532 , Reply# 11 1/16/2010 at 15:10 (5,211 days old) by brisnat81 (Brisbane Australia) |
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Current Key looks like this 
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| Post# 406719 , Reply# 12 1/17/2010 at 00:48 (5,210 days old) by ozhoover (Melbourne, Australia, but now living in London) | ||
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Hi Nathan, Hey I have a couple of sets of keyplates for my Keymatic happy to look and see what I have doubles of and part with.... Now the only problem is it's all in storage in Melbourne and I'm living in the UK now but I plan to be back in OZ around March/April so happy to have a look then for you..if you can wait... Mark Here's a pic of my machine.... 
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| Post# 406727 , Reply# 13 1/17/2010 at 01:54 (5,210 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
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Mark... | ||
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Post# 406741 , Reply# 14 1/17/2010 at 06:17 (5,210 days old) by gizmo (Victoria, Australia) |
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Hi Brisnat I probably still have a spare red keyplate. I used to have several. I will have to mount a search at two addresses, stand by... Chris. | ||
| Post# 406742 , Reply# 15 1/17/2010 at 06:19 (5,210 days old) by robliverpool (england Liverpool) | ||
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Post# 406861 , Reply# 16 1/17/2010 at 13:33 (5,210 days old) by brisnat81 (Brisbane Australia) |
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Thanks Mark and Chris, I'll cross my fingers and toes :) Cheers Nathan PS, its great to see so many Keymatics popping out of the woodwork. | ||
| Post# 406880 , Reply# 17 1/17/2010 at 14:50 (5,210 days old) by timon90 (Norway) | ||
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| Post# 407063 , Reply# 19 1/18/2010 at 05:41 (5,209 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
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Nooooooooooo................. | ||
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Post# 407065 , Reply# 20 1/18/2010 at 06:07 (5,209 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Keymatics
Hi Keith, lovely looking machine, looks straight out the showroom, lovely huey blue fascia..is that the original boot on your 3226?? Greg & gang, you know we are waiting?? especially that Jetcone who played with one of the Isle of wight many moons ago!!! Hi Louis, could you post a close up pic of your black & white keyplate, I`m trying to determine what slot is different than on the "All Cold" Aus one?? Mark, did all the A3224 timeline keymatics have a white outer cabinet in Aus?? my Aunts emigrated to Melbourne in 1968 with Pilkingtons Glass and I only found out last year that when Aunty Fran arrived they where in rented, and She had a Keymatic A3226 which she absolutely loved... Tom, have a few of the keyplates, no 3226 models though, we where talking about it last year, that possibly you could make replicas out of balsa / plastic etc, after all its just grooves in the slots that activate the cams/ prog reader for the programmes etc!! The one thing that doesnt happen is that the keplates are transferrable, like the advertising stated...most machines have slightly different keyplate readers etc...I have used different ones in other machines but not all programmes sequence in the correct way!!! 
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Post# 407066 , Reply# 21 1/18/2010 at 06:14 (5,209 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Ohh
Hi Chris, wev`e all been there with stuff had we known the fascination & value it would now still be with us!! Fascinating about how you where able to make it work 12 volts, just goes to show what can be achieved, very intreagued as to how fast the barbi would turn, would it be wash speed reduced through the drive wheels?? have visions of flicking it to spin and everyone covered with flying spitroast!!! | ||
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Post# 407089 , Reply# 22 1/18/2010 at 10:19 (5,209 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Post# 407090 , Reply# 23 1/18/2010 at 10:20 (5,209 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Post# 407307 , Reply# 25 1/19/2010 at 03:30 (5,208 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Keyplates
Thanks Louis, just what we where thinking about the notches etc...is the black keyplate on the LHS Cold Fill?? and the red on the RHS Hot & Cold?? Hi Nathan, so were all the Cold fill Cold Wash keyplates like that?? just had their notches removed?? Having never used this type of keyplate or reader, does the reader engage with the those notches cut out of the white middle bit?? as well as the side notches?? | ||
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Post# 407313 , Reply# 26 1/19/2010 at 04:29 (5,208 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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I wondered about that too  | ||
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Post# 407341 , Reply# 28 1/19/2010 at 07:50 (5,208 days old) by gizmo (Victoria, Australia) |
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sacrilege of the keymatic bbq Hi Mike The motor has a pulley at one end which turns motor speed (fast) which is the spin pulley. The other end of the motor has a reduction gearbox and a slow pulley, which is the wash pulley. So as long as you connect your bbq to the slow pulley, you will have a spit roast, not a "spin roast". | ||
| Post# 407461 , Reply# 31 1/19/2010 at 16:33 (5,208 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
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I've commented...
....about my keymatic owning aunt before... BUT... I should comment that she always held the 'cold water washing' mantra near and dear to her heart and had done since the early 1960's.... I would bet my 'you know what's' that she had a cold wash keyplate....even the replacement Zodiac was only ever put on a warm or hot wash when I was there... | ||
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Post# 407596 , Reply# 32 1/20/2010 at 05:38 (5,207 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Keyplates
Well that sound like a spring/summer plan boys, lets get playing & fixing!! Al, get your Kenwoods at the ready!!! Chris thanks for the explaination of the workings, I thinks those clicks & whirrs are fab, "Spit Roast, not Spin Roast...Lol that makes sense now!!! How long did the wash take on "Cold" then ?? these cycles are very short even after heating (8mins & 4mins), so was the wash time extended?? 
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| Post# 407736 , Reply# 33 1/20/2010 at 15:26 (5,207 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
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Mike... | ||
| Post# 407809 , Reply# 35 1/20/2010 at 18:43 (5,206 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
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Post# 407834 , Reply# 36 1/20/2010 at 20:11 (5,206 days old) by brisnat81 (Brisbane Australia) |
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No extension of the washtime, the timer doesnt allow for it. It just skips straight through the heat phase and goes into the main wash. | ||
| Post# 407844 , Reply# 37 1/20/2010 at 20:45 (5,206 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
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| Post# 407946 , Reply# 39 1/21/2010 at 06:36 (5,206 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
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Mayner and Cochran | ||
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Post# 407963 , Reply# 40 1/21/2010 at 07:33 (5,206 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Wow | ||
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Post# 407965 , Reply# 41 1/21/2010 at 07:41 (5,206 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Four minutes makes sense
For the cottons/regular cycles as that was the maximum wash time on all Hoovermatics. They must have used quite a lot of water to have made the pulsator action any good. How was it for tangling given that that was a critism often directed at the Hoovematic? I was wondering how the Keymatic might have fared in the US had it been sold there - presumably as a portable given that it was on wheels etc. I presume that it was not sold in Canada either. Al | ||
| Post# 408014 , Reply# 42 1/21/2010 at 11:37 (5,206 days old) by mynameismiele () | ||
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Question for timon90 When are you going to post new vids of your washers on YouTube? | ||
| Post# 408096 , Reply# 44 1/21/2010 at 14:55 (5,206 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
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LOL.... | ||
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Post# 408294 , Reply# 46 1/22/2010 at 07:08 (5,205 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Could it be... | ||
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Post# 408485 , Reply# 47 1/22/2010 at 17:27 (5,204 days old) by mayfan69 (Brisbane Queensland Australia) |
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No Keymatics made in Aus | ||
| Post# 408590 , Reply# 48 1/23/2010 at 04:47 (5,204 days old) by ozhoover (Melbourne, Australia, but now living in London) | ||
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Looks like mine was Ozzie made Hi Leon My Keymatic's rating plate shows it was made at Medowbank, here's a few pics... Think the early one's where imported from the UK.... as have seen machines with both made in the UK and Australia in the past... Mark 
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| Post# 408591 , Reply# 49 1/23/2010 at 04:47 (5,204 days old) by ozhoover (Melbourne, Australia, but now living in London) | ||
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Pic 2 . 
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Post# 408598 , Reply# 50 1/23/2010 at 05:56 (5,204 days old) by gizmo (Victoria, Australia) |
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Mine definitely says made in Australia, and I think the older timeline one was too. | ||
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Post# 408599 , Reply# 51 1/23/2010 at 05:59 (5,204 days old) by mayfan69 (Brisbane Queensland Australia) |
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My mistake then | ||
| Post# 409358 , Reply# 52 1/25/2010 at 15:58 (5,202 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
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Still....
Leon, I've had a look around my mothers laundry as promised some months ago for the instruction book for her Simpson washer...no luck I'm sorry to say... Given that Hoover isn't your most favoured brand, and I now have a HUGE by our standards laundry, if you happen to see anything interesting....say a functioning Keymatic......on your travels, feel free to let me know ;) | ||
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