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| Post# 605347 6/21/2012 at 15:15 (362 days old) by zanussi_lover (Nottingham, UK) | ||
  What is your favourite commercial washers? I've used Ipsos, Primus, Wascators and as much as I love them all, I prefer the Electrolux Wascator washers, I love the square door models with the turn to lock door handles.
I've used both the electronic models and the manual pointer models, I like the fact that on the electronic models you have options like Extra Extract- which gives the machine a longer faster spin, and theres an option for gentle wash, which gives the machine a more gentle wash action, and they have Hot, Warm, Cold, Delicate, Perma Press, Quick wash and Heavy Soil. The Launderette I went to charges £2.40 for a standard machine £3.40 for a green electrolux (bigger) machine (far left near the door) and 5.40 for a jumbo huge machine (great for duvets) and about 3 months worth of laundry. Artistic photo below taken by me at my launderette :) 
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| Post# 605425 , Reply# 1 6/21/2012 at 22:40 (362 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
 The Gen 5 machines (square door) appear to be solid mount (90G) machines. If they have the extra spin, it is 2 minutes extra, not faster. The 2 Gen 6 on the end -- I can't tell from the pic if they are the 90G or the 140G machines, or even the 300G model... The yellow machine is the 300G machine, but can't place the generation as we didn't have them here in the States...
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Post# 605437 , Reply# 2 6/21/2012 at 23:33 (362 days old) by CleanteamofNY  ((Monroe, New York) |
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| Post# 605444 , Reply# 3 6/22/2012 at 00:19 (362 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii) | ||
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Post# 605447 , Reply# 4 6/22/2012 at 00:43 (362 days old) by whirlykenmore78 (Prior Lake and Burnsville Mn.) |
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 The Continental-Girbau built Speed Queen WX series washer-extractors.(Follow the link to see one) Aside from that I like the generation-4 Wascomats for coin-ops and the Unimac/Uniwash UW series washer-extractors for high-extract hard mounts.
Nick WK78 CLICK HERE TO GO TO whirlykenmore78's LINK | ||
| Post# 605578 , Reply# 5 6/22/2012 at 11:42 (361 days old) by miele4life (Reading, UK ) | ||
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I like the Ipsos even though they're quite common lol, I of course like the Miele Professional machines and those from Schulthess, there's one @ my work rebranded a JLA6 which has a fun factor attached lol :) | ||
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Post# 605596 , Reply# 6 6/22/2012 at 12:24 (361 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas) |
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 The only kind of large front loader I have seen in our area are the Wascomat's Junior and Senior machines. The laundry near us has those and the older machines fill up quite nicely with plenty of water. Our mattress pads, comforters and such always come out clean.
The only thing we don't like is that the laundry operator just raised the prices on the Junior machines from $3.00 to $4.00 per load. | ||
| Post# 605642 , Reply# 7 6/22/2012 at 16:40 (361 days old) by dyson2drums (United Kingdom) | ||
 I've used Hoyt, Rex and Ipso's. My favorite modern commercial machine would be the Ipso's that have a digital display and do distribution drains. I don't like the ones with the timer/clock that goes around.
My favorite older commerical machines which I have very little memories of were Hoyt washers and some other machines that I loved, they were at the local launderette back in the 90's. I'll attach a picture that I found on google which has the machine i'd like to find out about. Its on the right hand side of the pciture. Thank you. 
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| Post# 605769 , Reply# 9 6/23/2012 at 10:05 (360 days old) by zanussi_lover (Nottingham, UK) | ||
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you probably were at the Loughbrough Road Launderette, these are all Mainwise Launderettes, they are a chain, this picture was taken at the Rex Launderette at Sherwood Rise
All of the Mainwise Launderettes in Nottingham have Electrolux Wascator Laundry Equipment The Launderette I took these Photos in have 2x WE71 High Extract electronic small capacity washers (yellow machines) 4x WE75s Standard Extract Washers, (2 mechanical machines with pointer, and 2 electronic machines) 2x 6th Generation Green Machines (cant remember model number) with electronic display and 90 degree wash setting (larger capacity than W75) 2x Huge Wascator Machines in the style of the Electronic W75's but with a huge capacity.. 7 x Wascator Gas dryers Prices are £2.40 for the Yellow WE71/WE75 Machines, £3.40 for the larger Green Machines, and £5.40 for the Giant Machines, the dryers are £1 for 16 minutes. Heres a link to the Mainwise Launderettes in Nottingham website CLICK HERE TO GO TO zanussi_lover's LINK | ||
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Post# 605781 , Reply# 10 6/23/2012 at 11:44 (360 days old) by chestermikeuk (Cheshire, England, UK) |
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| Post# 605910 , Reply# 11 6/24/2012 at 05:02 (360 days old) by glenfieldmathk1 (Glenfield-Leicester-UK) | ||
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Loughborough road laundrette, Yes you are correct zanussi_lover!, that's it, from that photo anyway's! Thanks for getting back to me, very interesting to know Nottingham has Laundrettes ran by the same company, more that can be said here in Leicester, Various laundry's, various types of machines, not all ran by the same people! | ||
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Post# 606074 , Reply# 12 6/24/2012 at 20:03 (359 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) |
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Norge and Milnor! | ||
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Post# 606135 , Reply# 13 6/25/2012 at 05:35 (358 days old) by qualin (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) |
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 I have to admit that I've always been a bit of a fan of Wascomat machines. I have no idea why. Maybe it's just their design I guess.
That and I have a bit of a nostalgic connection to late 1960's vintage White Westinghouse Commercial machines, only because the local laundromat had them. In the pictures above, the lady smoking the cig, they were Huebsch up here and they lasted forever.. probably installed in the mid 1960's and still running today. Yikes! | ||
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