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Thread Number: 44411
Thor W/D Combo In MI |
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Post# 652372 1/10/2013 at 23:52 (4,121 days old) by Launderess  (Quiet Please, There“s a Lady on Stage) |
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Post# 652386 , Reply# 1 1/11/2013 at 02:44 (4,121 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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It might say "three years old" | ||
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Post# 652387 , Reply# 2 1/11/2013 at 02:52 (4,121 days old) by ozzie908 (Lincoln UK) |
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I'm with you  | ||
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Post# 652391 , Reply# 3 1/11/2013 at 03:21 (4,121 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Indesit
Yes definately more than 3 years, more like 23...not bad machines if you got a good one and were an occasional user of the dryer...cant imagine how long the dry would be on 110v...
Is that a Malber dryer beside it?? To Laundress and all, any chance of putting all these finds in a "One Thread" say "Modern Finds" please, I for one am fed up of good threads dropping off these pages and being archived before you can get back to them and build up a history of knowledge on them, just a thought not a rant...xx | ||
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Post# 652396 , Reply# 4 1/11/2013 at 04:05 (4,121 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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I did make a thread for that purpose... http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?44415__0#start_44415.652395
But most chose to make their own threads. Oh well, I tried. | ||
| Post# 652398 , Reply# 5 1/11/2013 at 04:44 (4,121 days old) by solsburian (SE Northumberland) | ||
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Could the machine be a Haier clone like the example below? 
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| Post# 652410 , Reply# 6 1/11/2013 at 06:29 (4,121 days old) by dj-gabriele () | ||
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Indesit might have sold, like already did, the old production line to the Chinese. | ||
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Post# 652427 , Reply# 8 1/11/2013 at 08:50 (4,121 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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"The plus side is that most fireman are affable fellows, | ||
| Post# 652429 , Reply# 9 1/11/2013 at 09:08 (4,121 days old) by Westie2 () | ||
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Peter/peteski Had the LG combo was a royal pain for him with leakey door seals and all. Hopw he sees this to explain. LG service was horrible too.
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Post# 652483 , Reply# 12 1/11/2013 at 15:42 (4,121 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There“s a Lady on Stage) |
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IIRC
Thor was brought to these shores by the same company that sold "Quietline" and perhaps "Splendide". What they did was simply purchase the rights to the brand name and began slapping it onto these combo units.
Cannot remember if this was the same outfit that also sold/distributed Equator laundry appliaces as well. But do think these early incarnations were Merloni machines but which branch of that family cannot be sure. In NY and the Northeast Malber and Equator pretty much battled it out for the compact combo, washer and dryer units. Had a Malber front loader and it was a decent enough machine. IIRC inside the drain cover said something about "COPA Switzerland". None of these machines offered internal heaters for the wash cycle, but again found performance wasn't bad, especially if one did a cool prewash before the main cycle. It also helped had the unit close enough to the taps to keep down temp loss and hot water was 120F or higher. Sold mine on when the Miele was purchased. Truth to tell the cold water inlet valve began to go and didn't want to bother with repair. MalberUSA then and now for all one knows had it's own repair service. Don't know what the guy's other employment was (if any), but came out once to install the machine (took off the dreadful casters one could purchase then to make the unit "portable") and smoothed a few other things out. Yes, condenser drying with these units was not that great. Many persons did eventually give up on that and purchased a small compact dryer. In NYC and elsewhere one supposes laundry appliances were forbidden the benefit of the condenser dryer was not having to shove vent hose out the window. On cold NYC days that wafting stream of steam out a window or vent is a dead giveway to a clothes dryer being used. *LOL* Am surprised to hear condenser dryers in the EU run at 1400 watts or so. Miele's condenser dryers sold here are around 3000w. | ||
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Post# 652584 , Reply# 14 1/12/2013 at 06:46 (4,120 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Washer Dryers
Many of family and friends have washer dryers due to lack of space rather than convenience, but all get good results with them, I had the second series Hotpoint washer dryer the 9920, 1000rpm spin, great washer and a very fast fast dryer, dried a half load of cottons in 45 mins....
My sister has the new Hotpoint WD960, 1600rpm spin , 7kg wash, with its fast spin and the Thermal Spin whilst spinning and Spinning for extraction whilst drying it really does help the time process but more economical than the earlier models because the wattage is dryer lower!! Other sister has the Zanussi ZWD14070 1400spin , 7kg and again a good dryer, again they use there machines when a load of washing builds etc so it will be used every couple of days... The hottest washer dryers where made by Miele and AEG in the 70`s there dryers would dry in half the time of others on the market, when first introduced we had many a complaint where lightweight fabrics had been dried on the cottons setting and the clothes had scorched and melted!!! They where that hot you could literally bake cakes in them!! | ||
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Post# 652593 , Reply# 15 1/12/2013 at 07:51 (4,120 days old) by ozzie908 (Lincoln UK) |
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AEG washer dryer | ||
| Post# 652647 , Reply# 17 1/12/2013 at 10:10 (4,120 days old) by dj-gabriele () | ||
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Miele combo, still made Yup, they're still made! Small capacity and outrageously expensive, I wouldn't buy one! Here's the link: CLICK HERE TO GO TO dj-gabriele's LINK | ||
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Post# 652648 , Reply# 18 1/12/2013 at 10:42 (4,120 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Thank you Gabriele. | ||
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Post# 652653 , Reply# 19 1/12/2013 at 11:53 (4,120 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Miele Washer Dryer
They do claim less water usage in the 3kg drying process by using a second powerful fan to atomise the cooling water for a more efficient effect...
CLICK HERE TO GO TO chestermikeuk's LINK | ||
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Post# 652662 , Reply# 20 1/12/2013 at 12:32 (4,120 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Hotpoint
A know a few people with these models and with a large capacity you can now dry nearly as much as the Miele washes....
Tom the idea of warm water when spinning does appear to have been around for a long time....the beauty of these new machines is that the dryer comes on for a few minutes when spinning at 1600rpm, and then 20 mins into the drying programme it does a 1600rpm spin for a few minutes, this really accelerates the drying process and from what I have seen and observed does no damage to the clothing, again only does this on the cottons dry!! CLICK HERE TO GO TO chestermikeuk's LINK 
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