Thread Number: 57631
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
Romanian Hoovermatic TwinTub |
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Post# 800331   12/22/2014 at 16:47 (3,412 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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Well just when you thought you had seen them all, here comes another. Based on the very first 1957 Hoovermatic twinny, this one looks like it has been retro fitted with an Easy or AEG Spinner can and rinsing flume!!
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Post# 800333 , Reply# 1   12/22/2014 at 16:49 (3,412 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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Cute round lid and an Easy looking spin basket...
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Post# 800335 , Reply# 2   12/22/2014 at 16:50 (3,412 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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Top deck view, all the same features bar the spinner, I quite like it!!
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Post# 800336 , Reply# 3   12/22/2014 at 16:53 (3,412 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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Post# 800338 , Reply# 4   12/22/2014 at 16:56 (3,412 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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Underneath looks similar but we cant see the "Boiling Water Action" Pulsator, wonder if its bakelite or metal?
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Post# 800339 , Reply# 5   12/22/2014 at 16:59 (3,412 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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Post# 800405 , Reply# 6   12/22/2014 at 21:21 (3,412 days old) by lamont ()   |   | |
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That was made in the same factory as my romainain ak. Lol. Washing machines to the left, small arms to the right. |
Post# 800407 , Reply# 7   12/22/2014 at 21:22 (3,412 days old) by lamont ()   |   | |
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That was made in the same factory as my romainain ak. Lol. Washing machines to the left, small arms to the right. |
Post# 800445 , Reply# 8   12/23/2014 at 01:58 (3,412 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc)   |   | |
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The fan on that motor looks like it should be in a vacuum cleaner-guess they want LOTS of air to cool that motor!Truely it can't be THAT loaded down! |
Post# 800479 , Reply# 9   12/23/2014 at 08:08 (3,412 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 800515 , Reply# 10   12/23/2014 at 11:33 (3,412 days old) by electron1100 (England)   |   | |
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wow you kept that quiet Mike ;-), what a nice machine especially with AEG spinner fitted, that will whip through a full load in no time!.
Hmm fan on the motor? these motors are under no load as such and run at a reasonable temperature, maybe it doubles up as a power unit to drive some sort of farm equipment hence the cooling fan on the motor :-) Gary |
Post# 800631 , Reply# 11   12/23/2014 at 23:05 (3,411 days old) by cfz2882 (Belle Fourche,SD)   |   | |
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the motor is"shaded pole"type-needs the oversized fan plus the fan-spoked pump drive wheel to disperse the waste heat of the inherently inefficient motor design-the shaded pole motors GE used in their dishwashers for a couple decades also had an oversized fan. |
Post# 800658 , Reply# 12   12/24/2014 at 03:47 (3,411 days old) by electron1100 (England)   |   | |
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Post# 800910 , Reply# 13   12/26/2014 at 06:40 (3,409 days old) by gizmo (Victoria, Australia)   |   | |
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the Australian Hoovermatics had a pretty substantial fan on the wash motor. I'm more familiar with the later models, they had a plastic fan and pulley in one, and the fan was quite large and moved plenty of air. |
Post# 800983 , Reply# 14   12/26/2014 at 17:12 (3,408 days old) by aquarius1984 (Planet earth)   |   | |
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Il bet that motor isn't original to the machine.
Hoover twinnies AFAIK use the same or very similar motors that the tumble dryers used. So that motor may not be original and taken from a tumble dryer hence the fan mounted to it. The fan on later Hoover dryers was mounted on the motor for the airflow thru the dryer. |
Post# 901626 , Reply# 15   10/3/2016 at 14:04 (2,761 days old) by anthony (uk)   |   | |
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Post# 901693 , Reply# 16   10/4/2016 at 02:25 (2,761 days old) by Sbond22 (Grove City, Fl. USA)   |   | |
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