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Ritemp English Electric wringer washer
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Post# 667081   3/19/2013 at 17:06 (4,026 days old) by lancethecook (Driffield England)        

I finally got the Ritemp wringer washer from Preston. It came from an old ladies house , she had bought the machine in 1953 and they gave me the original guarantee.
I think she must have smoked 100 bensons a day as the entire house was dripping nicotine.
Unfortunately I can't upload photos from my iPad , don't know why , so hopefully Ozzie will add them to this thread.
As you will see there is a tap drain just below the level of the wash tub which I presumed was how the tub was emptied but for some strange reason the water drains from the tub into a permanently spinning pump and then pushes it against a closed tap, the idea then is to open the tap into a bucket so I am a bit mistified why it has a pump at all.
Unfortunately the pump is totally seized up but as soon as the machine is cleaned up a bit and once again operational I will put it on YouTube .
Thanks in advance to Ozzie for uploading photos.





Post# 667083 , Reply# 1   3/19/2013 at 17:17 (4,026 days old) by electron1100 (England)        
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This is good news, i look forward to seeing more of it and the videos
Gary


Post# 667103 , Reply# 2   3/19/2013 at 19:10 (4,026 days old) by ozzie908 (Lincoln UK)        
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Post# 667104 , Reply# 3   3/19/2013 at 19:13 (4,026 days old) by ozzie908 (Lincoln UK)        
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The inside

Post# 667831 , Reply# 4   3/23/2013 at 07:34 (4,022 days old) by electron1100 (England)        
Green

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what a brilliant colour tub when the machine is done it will look even better, very samrt looking machine
Gary


Post# 667859 , Reply# 5   3/23/2013 at 09:42 (4,022 days old) by DaveTranter (Central England)        
Nice Machine!!

Can't be sure after all these years, but I think that may be the model my mother had when I was very young. It just looks 'strangely familiar', as does the green enamel inside the tub... She got rid of it when I was about five.... Probably worried that by then I was getting tall enough to reach the wringer. For most of my childhood and youth she had a Hotpoint Twin-tub....

All best

Dave T


Post# 667899 , Reply# 6   3/23/2013 at 12:59 (4,022 days old) by matchboxpaul (U.K)        

Hi Lance.

Well thats something a bit different and see what you mean about the staining.
We have a Hoovermatic that was caked in nicotine stains and stank!

Fingers crossed that with some elbow grease, you can get the yuckiness off and make her look gret again.

Paul



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