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Anyone has info about Miele's W489?
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Post# 729593   1/22/2014 at 10:30 (3,718 days old) by T5-RSergeant ()        

I just read a Brave Little Toaster To The Rescue fanfic, and one of the appliances there was a Miele W489, and now i'm wondering: Has anyone more info about this machine? Fredriksam said in 2005 that this machine was sold for a very short time because of a bad bearing design and motors that could overheat, quoted from this topic: www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/T...

'I have told you about that i recycling machines, well, before, we even repaired some of them and sold as used machines. The machine i wanna tell about is the Miele toploader w 489. It was sold in the seventies and Mile pulled it in quite fast.

Now the reason WHY it was pulled in: This machine had a fault in the motor which meant it COULD overheat. As i,ve heard from a source, nothing really happened, but it was enough for Miele to pull it back. Also there was some problems with the bearings also. I myself have seen very few of these machines. Have tried repairing one, but it didnt work out good.'





Post# 733067 , Reply# 1   2/5/2014 at 13:43 (3,704 days old) by Fredriksam (Sweden)        

Hmm. Yeah that machine i remember. well i think it was made around 1974 - 76. The spin speed was 1000 rpm and it took about 4,5 kg. From what i understand, this machine was sold under another number in germany. Why i dont know. Its also one of the very few miele machines from that area that had only two dials. It had instead 4 buttons beside the dials. Sadly i dont have any pictures of this machine but maybe you can find some on the internet.


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