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Post# 290802   7/15/2008 at 09:14 (5,735 days old) by richukbristol ()        

Hi folks, a few weeks ago I was lucky enough to get one of my dream washing machines and with abit of advice from other very helpful members on here I managed to get it home. I thought you all might like to see some pics of it. It has taken a while to get them on here because I'm abit pants at down loading photos and had to wait for my partner to show me how to do it. Hope you like them.

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Post# 290803 , Reply# 1   7/15/2008 at 09:16 (5,735 days old) by richukbristol ()        

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Post# 290804 , Reply# 2   7/15/2008 at 09:17 (5,735 days old) by richukbristol ()        

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Post# 290805 , Reply# 3   7/15/2008 at 09:18 (5,735 days old) by richukbristol ()        

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Post# 290806 , Reply# 4   7/15/2008 at 09:20 (5,735 days old) by richukbristol ()        

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Post# 290808 , Reply# 5   7/15/2008 at 09:25 (5,735 days old) by richukbristol ()        

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Post# 290810 , Reply# 6   7/15/2008 at 09:33 (5,735 days old) by richukbristol ()        

If possible I need advice about afew things, Not sure if any of the belts need replacing and the wash pump has stared to leak (since I started messing around with it lol) what would be the best thing use to patch it up. Would love to hear your advice.

Many thanks Rich


Post# 290811 , Reply# 7   7/15/2008 at 09:42 (5,735 days old) by robm (Buxted)        

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Thanks for the pics Rich. My mother had that machine only her's was an earlier version. Not quite sure what happened to it! It always ennoyed me that I could not see it spin.

Anyway I hope you have many hours of fun with it!

Rob


Post# 290814 , Reply# 8   7/15/2008 at 10:08 (5,735 days old) by richukbristol ()        

Hi Rob thanks for the reply, I always felt abit left out of the whole tiwn tub thing as I my Mum got rid of hers before I was able to pay with it. She had a hotpoint twin tub in the 60's, I was born in December 71, before end of January 72 she had bought a Hoover automatic de luxe lol. The only one had a chance to play with a little was my friends mum's who had a supertwin 100. she didn't like chlidren getting her way when she was using it but when ever her back was turned I would lift the lid and watch it wash, usually folded by her telling to put the lid down get form under feet and go and play in the garden lol.

Post# 290818 , Reply# 9   7/15/2008 at 10:46 (5,735 days old) by robm (Buxted)        

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I remember in the 70s our kitchen had a breakfast bar. I used to sit on a stool and help with the washing if my mum wasn't in a hurry. I remember the spin dryer was quite noisy. I think she got rid of it around 81 when she bought a top loader Philips. I was very miffed as I really wanted her to buy a front loader so I could see what was going on. They did not even let me choose it, I was not pleased LOL!

Post# 290833 , Reply# 10   7/15/2008 at 13:14 (5,734 days old) by matchboxpaul (U.K)        

Hi Richard.

Congratulations on the new acquisition.
Your Supertwin 108 looks in great condition.

One of my neighbours had a similar MkIII Supertwin, whilst I was a nipper.
It replaced a MkII Supertwin, probably around 1983/84 - any ideas which Supertwin was in production around that time?

The MkIII was replaced by a Hotpoint Microprofile in about 1990.

Good luck with the repairs. sorry not to be able to offer any advice.

Have fun.
Paul


Post# 290917 , Reply# 11   7/15/2008 at 21:25 (5,734 days old) by 7080swashertalk ()        

Nice find. That is so similar to the Hoover twin tub washer we had use of in the mid 70s when our Frigidaire washer stopped working.

Yours looks in very good condition.

I like your kitchen too. Luv the multi-colored tiled backsplash.


Post# 291069 , Reply# 12   7/16/2008 at 16:34 (5,733 days old) by richukbristol ()        

Rob, Parents could be a pain when choosing new appliances when your younger, they think they know best lol. In 86 one of my friends mum bought a new philips front loader to replace her old 70's sliver and blue trim philips slimstar when she had her kitchen done and let me have it. I really liked it and had it set up in my parents garage but as you say it was a shame you couldn't watch it work. one thing I noticed was when it first started to pumped out after the wash a big clod of undissolved persil always came out.Ahh The days before detergent recover systems lol

Paul, thanks for your message and congratulations on ur hotpoint and hoover dryer, I'd only ever seen the old hoover dryers with solid doors, yours looks really cool. I would also like to thank you for clearing somthing up for in a previous thread awhile ago about Hoover matchbox washers, my mum had a Hoover automatic de luxe with light grey and orange trim but her friend had one with dark grey and red trim. I could never understand why untill I read thread about all the different colour schemes. I just thought one was perhaps from the MEB or Sweb lol. P.S. I know where theres a white Hotpoint electroinc deluxe up for spares. I shall post in another thread If your Interested

7282swashertalk, thanks for your comments. Two of the things I love about where I live are the wooden floors and the kitchen. When I was first shown round the first thing I saw when the front door was opened was the floors, I knew I wanted it straight away And then I saw the kitchen which was the icing on the cake lol.




Post# 291082 , Reply# 13   7/16/2008 at 17:10 (5,733 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)        
Servis Supertwins

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Hi Rich

Congratulations on a classic buy, thats one of the best twinnys around of the modern era!! It looks in super nick and I love the fact that it Washes, Boils, Rinses & Spins all at once... Ohhh I can smell that Ariel boilwash, steam everywhere!!!

Servis are my favourite twinnys..the fact that they are taller than others and are more solid & sturdy with a very unique sound...

Enjoy it and let us know how it washes...heres a link to a few of mine!!!

Enjoy, Mike



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Post# 291089 , Reply# 14   7/16/2008 at 17:38 (5,733 days old) by toggleswitch2 ()        

oooh it looks like an absolute dream! Congratulations!

If I may be so bold, I'd love to see the boiler and works above the (daily-driver) Miele washer as well.

Your kitchen is gorgeous!

What's a detergent recover system?


Post# 291097 , Reply# 15   7/16/2008 at 18:47 (5,733 days old) by brisnat81 (Brisbane Australia)        
Detergent Recovery System

Great looking Twinnie, I wish we'd had the Wilkinson Service ones here that late. Most of the 70's ones here rusted into oblivion.

A detergent recovery system is either an Ecovalve, or a recirculation pump. With the Ecovalve, the machine usually admits enough water to fill the sump, which causes the ball to float and seal the outlet on the tub. Then the water is admitted through the dispensor and all of the powder ends up in the drum rather than the sump.

The recirculation pump cycles the water out of the sump back into the drum and therefore the detergent is not lost to the sump.



Post# 291107 , Reply# 16   7/16/2008 at 20:17 (5,733 days old) by rolls_rapide (.)        
Detergent recovery systems

The recirculation pump method is probably best known in the Zanussi 'Jetsystem' machines.

There was also a third, more basic method:

I remember seeing a brochure, possibly for the basic front-loading, 'non-jetsystem' Zanussis (or maybe a sister company). This had a diagram of the wash tub, with two exits from the tub: one at the 6 O'clock position, the other at the 8 or 4 O'clock position. Both were connected at the drain pump.

As I understand it, the turbulence caused by the rotating drum caused water to be flushed through this pipe-work, continuously. Probably a similar principle to waves on the beach being focussed through narrow gaps in breakwaters, etc.

The constantly moving water would then dissolve the powder that fell straight into the sump.


Post# 291128 , Reply# 17   7/16/2008 at 22:19 (5,733 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida)        

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Very nice guy.

Does it "Hoofdevase"? (don't know if I spelled it correctly)



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