Thread Number: 58121
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
Brandt top loader washer dryer |
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Post# 806080   1/26/2015 at 08:59 (3,349 days old) by mrzach2010 ()   |   | |
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Anyone ever seen one of these? I got this from Ebay a little while ago. I love it! Even has a fluff filter which is a god send. Its a french machine but easy to translate. |
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Post# 806122 , Reply# 3   1/26/2015 at 13:05 (3,349 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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They have been around quite a long time. In the past Bosch, Siemens, AEG and many other models had them. They are very popular in France, especially in Paris, where a lot of people live in "bijou" apartments. You will find more if you do a search on "lavante sechante chargement dessus".
My favourite one is the Miele W489, sold in the late seventies or early eighties. |
Post# 806130 , Reply# 4   1/26/2015 at 14:23 (3,349 days old) by mrzach2010 ()   |   | |
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Hey thanks for that, very interesting. Having a top loader is the only way we can have a slimline dishwasher also. |
Post# 806156 , Reply# 5   1/26/2015 at 17:41 (3,348 days old) by logixx (Germany)   |   | |
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Does it have a fan to dry? I suppose so, since it has a lint filter. I had a chance to use a TL washer/dryer before, but it was an absolutely PITA when it came to drying clothes. It had no fan and just baked clothes by using the heating element underneath the drum. Besides, it used a lot of water for the drying cycle.
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Post# 806275 , Reply# 7   1/27/2015 at 11:15 (3,348 days old) by logixx (Germany)   |   | |
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Post# 806423 , Reply# 8   1/28/2015 at 07:34 (3,347 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas)   |   | |
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So rather than dry with a fan, it bakes the clothes dry. Does that set the wrinkles in the fabric? |
Post# 806424 , Reply# 9   1/28/2015 at 07:48 (3,347 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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This machine has a fan AFAIK.
Other combo's had no fans, like the American GE combo's IIRC AFAIK there was never a topload dryer (not a combo) that didn't have a fan. I guess some topload combos didn't have a fan because there was simply no room more for it. These topload combos are pretty compact machines considering what they can do. |
Post# 806426 , Reply# 10   1/28/2015 at 07:52 (3,347 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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Many of the early washer dryers had element only drying, some had three positioned around the drum, as many where slower spin speeds, like the Fagor top loaders then as the load heated with such excess of steam creasing tended not to occur unless a wrong setting was used - BUT the cottons setting was Hot Hot, I remember the early 80`s AEG washer dryers where nicknamed BakeOMatics and could cook a cake some where that hot, the trick was to remove clothing asap otherwise creasing could occur if you had dried a mixed load on a cottons cycle!!
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Post# 806451 , Reply# 11   1/28/2015 at 10:44 (3,347 days old) by logixx (Germany)   |   | |
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Post# 806497 , Reply# 12   1/28/2015 at 16:28 (3,347 days old) by iej (.... )   |   | |
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Doesn't sound like a very good or clothes-friendly design! You'd be scraping synthetics off the drum walls! |
Post# 806500 , Reply# 13   1/28/2015 at 17:00 (3,347 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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