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Post# 153301   9/9/2006 at 01:37 (6,410 days old) by aquarius1984 (Planet earth)   |   | |
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Has anybody seen the new white knight dryers? How GORENGEfied maybe a touch of the BELLING WASH WIZE are they? Sharp angled panels and a chunky timer dial. Have to admit im no fan of white knight dryers in general but for the money they do a reasonable job and i notice nobody here seems to have a WK DRYER but if anybody does please let me know what you think. nick
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Post# 153377 , Reply# 1   9/9/2006 at 17:02 (6,409 days old) by samsungfl (United Kingdom/London )   |   | |
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Post# 153447 , Reply# 3   9/10/2006 at 04:58 (6,409 days old) by chrisbsuk (Bristol, uk)   |   | |
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the reverse action on my new Zanussi Condensor Dryer is a joke as well... it does reverse for about 10 seconds, then back the normal way... i am not technically minded but i suspect this might be when it is pumping the condesed steam into the tray? i also had a condensor hotpoint dryer... it was louder than anything i had ever heard in my life... but lasted about four years, and serviced the five of us when we lived together (everything got dryed as we had no garden) so that was not bad going! |
Post# 153454 , Reply# 4   9/10/2006 at 05:35 (6,409 days old) by glamwales ()   |   | |
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what better use for a spare hotpoint drum ... heheheheh |
Post# 153470 , Reply# 5   9/10/2006 at 06:25 (6,409 days old) by sparkcymru ()   |   | |
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Glad you pointed that out i'm just looking at a Hotpoint aquarius silver dryer or the Indesit. Don't want drum troubles unless they've sorted it out by now. Steve |
Post# 153475 , Reply# 6   9/10/2006 at 06:34 (6,409 days old) by chrisbsuk (Bristol, uk)   |   | |
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Post# 153483 , Reply# 8   9/10/2006 at 07:51 (6,409 days old) by chrisbsuk (Bristol, uk)   |   | |
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Post# 153487 , Reply# 9   9/10/2006 at 07:59 (6,409 days old) by sparkcymru ()   |   | |
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where you get it from Chris and what model is it? Steve |
Post# 153493 , Reply# 10   9/10/2006 at 08:10 (6,409 days old) by chrisbsuk (Bristol, uk)   |   | |
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Post# 153497 , Reply# 11   9/10/2006 at 08:21 (6,409 days old) by sparkcymru ()   |   | |
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thats a condensor dryer though isn't it. its a vented one i need in silver. there doesn't seem to be one in Zanussi. Steve |
Post# 153498 , Reply# 12   9/10/2006 at 08:25 (6,409 days old) by chrisbsuk (Bristol, uk)   |   | |
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Post# 157202 , Reply# 13   9/26/2006 at 09:18 (6,393 days old) by aquarius1984 (Planet earth)   |   | |
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Well on top of my Hotpoint stands a full size white knight belonging to my friend. I put this thread up to see what everybody else said about them first before i made comment. Now ive had time to use it plenty and get to know it i would like to put my views forward. Its well built dont get me wrong but i have one major gripe. Why does it take 110 plus minutes to dry 5kg cottons on high? Any other dryer i have used by any other make does it in 80. Even my old zamussi condensor. My mums creaky hoover does it in 70 and my granddads philips from early 80s which is virtually the same inside can do it in 80 to90 minutes. It has no detectable air flow and certainly does not heat like other dryers. Glamwales how are your timings compared to mine? Nick
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Post# 157313 , Reply# 21   9/26/2006 at 18:28 (6,392 days old) by aquarius1984 (Planet earth)   |   | |
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i like to hear diffdrent regional dialects and their variations. How do you guys pronounce Skew Whiff. Here in Crewe its SKI WHIFF for some reason. Yeah i guess for the £118 a white knight costs its great but when you have been spoilt with a squeaky Hoover HDV6 that breaks all the time . . . . Lol. With white knights not being my choice of dryer for the slowness i admit, but they seem to have a following here. Glad people enjoy them.
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Post# 158080 , Reply# 22   10/1/2006 at 03:23 (6,388 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Post# 158087 , Reply# 23   10/1/2006 at 04:34 (6,388 days old) by aquarius1984 (Planet earth)   |   | |
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Post# 158097 , Reply# 24   10/1/2006 at 06:28 (6,388 days old) by seamusuk (Dover Kent UK)   |   | |
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Yup Crosslee still make them....... Scroll down to gas dryers- 4.7kw equilivent!!! must get as hot as US models lol! Seamus CLICK HERE TO GO TO seamusuk's LINK |
Post# 158105 , Reply# 25   10/1/2006 at 08:32 (6,388 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Thanks for the link. The gas company was selling them overhere but stopped doing it. I believe there were a lot of problems with them. I noticed they don't have an electronic model, only models with timers. I'm also amazed that they still make dryers that don't have reverse tumble. I thought there weren't any of those around anymore.
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Post# 158112 , Reply# 27   10/1/2006 at 09:07 (6,388 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Yes, I read about the Bosch dryers and I knew about the Asko ones. But they somehow make that a feature. I had a look at the Dutch Indesit website, overhere they only sell reversing dryers. The Dutch Whirlpool site doesn't give information about it. It's not mentioned in the details. It's possible that some brands don't sell the BOL models overhere.
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Post# 158294 , Reply# 28   10/2/2006 at 03:29 (6,387 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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White Knight dryers must possibly be the most bought dryers in the UK I would think, good price, simple design, (Vented models still based on Philips) and they do seem to do a reasonable job...granted not as well built now as the models of the 80`s .... Louis , is the Coopra dryer linked to the Coopra Heating Group etc?? looks a nice style, although gas, I didnt think the burner was a total high rater, but that the heat output was similar to equivalent electric dryer.. Interesting point about reverse/no reverse, The bigger the drum the less need for reverse IMHO...proves it with commercial & US dryers...the smaller machines we had built here such as Hoover, Hotpoint , Servis Creda did benefit hugely from reversing just to move the clothes evenly through the heat source...(Hoover was probably the best, reversing every 70secs) Another major difference is that "Laundry Loads" are vastly different to past years, Fabrics are bulkier, sizes/styles are bigger, hence they dont clump down when wet like fabrics did years ago.. I`m interested to see where/how the Bosch dryers take off in sales with the big drum/ no reverse route...for what it costs to make a drum reverse its peanuts in the profit of the dearer dryers to make it do so.... I certainly dont think that companies like Bosch / Asko / Maytag would (in these competitive times) risk selling dryers, and losing market share, that dont reverse if there was a major issue with it not reversing..."Excuse or no Excuse" which is an interesting statement!!!! So, IMHO, the bigger the dryer drum you "CAN" get away with no reverse.... |
Post# 158371 , Reply# 29   10/2/2006 at 11:21 (6,387 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Mike, I have absolutely no idea if the Coopra dryer and the Coopra Heating Group were related. If you hadn't mentioned the Coopra Heating Group I still wouldn't have known about it. I don't know with how a big heating element that dryer was sold. After my post yesterday I remembered you leased the dryer for three years from the gas company and after that you were able to buy it for 1 Dutch guilder. Although we have big natural gas resources I don't think the gas dryer became very popular. At the moment I think only Miele sells a gas dryer on the Dutch market. The biggest competitors for that dryer are the heat pump dryers from AEG and Blomberg. I agree with you about the reversing being less important when the drum is bigger. |