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Post# 287667   6/28/2008 at 08:41 (5,781 days old) by 74simon ()        

I have always wished Hoover had sold a compact tumble dryer in the UK, but didn't think they had, till Paul pointed out an Ebay item that was pretty close to me...




Post# 287668 , Reply# 1   6/28/2008 at 08:43 (5,781 days old) by 74simon ()        
It's a Hoover D6040

... which as Seamus pointed out to me is basically a Bendix dryer in Hoover drag! No matter though, I love the colour scheme, but I'm starting to think that I now need a nice matching T5024 HMDL...

Post# 287669 , Reply# 2   6/28/2008 at 08:45 (5,781 days old) by 74simon ()        
The console...

Is it just me, or are the drying times a bit long? Love the mid 70s font though. she was built November 1977 by the way.

Post# 287687 , Reply# 3   6/28/2008 at 13:03 (5,780 days old) by hoovermatic (UK)        

those drying times are comparable to the Hotpoint dryer i had some years ago, a real old one with a vent grill in the door.

Post# 287696 , Reply# 4   6/28/2008 at 15:09 (5,780 days old) by frontaloadotmy (the cool gay realm)        
Please open the hatch

and give us a gander at the drum.

Post# 287713 , Reply# 5   6/28/2008 at 17:47 (5,780 days old) by 74simon ()        
Sure thing!

After its inaugural run tonight - the timer doesn't time, and the temperature switch seems to have been refitted upside down. But she basically goes! Paul, do you guys have any sevice literature for this one?

Si


Post# 287746 , Reply# 6   6/29/2008 at 01:26 (5,780 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)        

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Congratulations! Those are fun dryers. IIRC they were sold overhere in the Netherlands as Kenwood. Different color scheme though.

Post# 287808 , Reply# 7   6/29/2008 at 09:58 (5,780 days old) by rolls_rapide (.)        
Gosh...!

You could open your own shop, selling Hoover appliances!

Post# 287830 , Reply# 8   6/29/2008 at 13:54 (5,779 days old) by matchboxpaul (U.K)        
How Do Simon.

Really am pleased you went for the D6040. It was the first time that I had ever seen a 'real' one when I stumbled across the advert.
Initially i though 'oh a bendix', but then I looked closer.
Saw what it was.
Thought bloody hell - where is it and then fell through the floor when i saw where.

Turned out good in the end though and am really happy that it has a good home.

Apparrently though she has issues - and i do feel partly responsible for you forking out the cash.
As such (I would have done it anyway) I have dug out all the service info I have on the D6040. There is not that much and as to how useful it will be, I will leave you to judge. I hope it is useful though:

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Post# 287831 , Reply# 9   6/29/2008 at 13:56 (5,779 days old) by matchboxpaul (U.K)        

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Post# 287832 , Reply# 10   6/29/2008 at 13:56 (5,779 days old) by matchboxpaul (U.K)        

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Post# 287833 , Reply# 11   6/29/2008 at 13:58 (5,779 days old) by matchboxpaul (U.K)        
and finally

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I hope this comes in useful to you.

Congrats on a wonderful compact purchase.
Paul


Post# 288227 , Reply# 12   7/2/2008 at 09:09 (5,777 days old) by 74simon ()        
Thanks Paul,

That was a great help! I've gotten the clockwork timer going again, the two switches in the timer seem a bit sticky, but the vibration of the dryer seems to help them click off.

Louis, I note from spare parts sites that this machine was both a Bendix, a Hoover, a Kenwood and a Philco! Badge-engineering at its finest, hehehe!

I'm interested to note that my machine was built in 11/1977, but the service instructions date from a month later - wonder if mine was part of the first batch?

Calum - a museum perhaps, but I'd sell them over my dead body!

Si


Post# 288294 , Reply# 13   7/2/2008 at 16:26 (5,776 days old) by matchboxpaul (U.K)        

Hi Si.

Glad the service info is of use to you and glad you have got the timer going again, after a fashion.

Never knew that the machine also spawned a Philco clone - would that have been a grey facia machine I wonder, to match the mid 80s Bendix clone machines?

Cheers
Paul
p.s does anyone have a piccy of the D6030 from Hoover - a full size machine which, I think may have been a matchbox electricity board special. Had a bronze coloured facia, with a flame emblem on it, and may have been a match to the Hoover A2018 Automatic E (the one with no powder drawer). Any help gratefully received.



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