Recent content by adam-aussie-vac

It’s Previously never taken this long to actually dry them and granted they haven’t been washed in over a year and occasionally had no pillowcase on but it is possible to wash them, my suggestion is if you have a large dryer you should definitely use it

Yeah, cause my pillows were so dirty I actually spent the entire day getting them washed in three different automatic washing machines with the use of the extractor between each one of them until the water was clear, and I might see if I can try and do that but they do seem pretty much dry and...

My dryer only has warm and hot for my large Simpson dryer, and only one temperature for my Westinghouse dryer , my mum‘s Fisher and Paykel dryer does have a low setting and a one hour setting, but I don’t think that would be long enough to gently bring the moisture out, I have roughly every 15...

Oh okay, as my Westinghouse dryer only has a single temperature setting, and it reaches around 70 or 80°C, as it’s not controlled via the timer or any sort of temperature selector

2.4 kW, that’s including the heater and the motor

Hey guys, I have a question for you. How long is too long for running a clothes dryer? Considering I’m giving my vintage Westinghouse dryer a marathon, as it’s been drying the same down pillows for around six hours over the past 24 hours, not continuously, but it takes quite a lot of heat to...

Speaking of Hoyt, I’ll be trying to pick up some vintage early 70s Hoyt 20lbs machines

I think that the control voltage is 240 V, so if I’m able to convert the motors to either single phase or find single phase motor that would be a drop-in replacement then it should all work perfectly fine, I don’t want to use VFDs as I like that when it throws itself into spin

Hey guys, I have a question for youse, when it comes to acquiring parts for vintage commercial machines, do you either try to find as many original parts as possible or do you adapt something Modern to work with the machine? A great example is the two machines I’m getting from Melbourne, both of...

Hey guys, I’m back in the mood to try and fix my Thor Automagic washing machine/dishwasher, there is a bearing that sadly broke when I tried to fit a new belt That was a bit too tight for the machine., I want to try and repair the machine instead of condemning it because of an accident I did. I...

Surprisingly, I actually had that happen at my dad’s place, and I only used that specific towel and then I washed it in straight hot water as to me it actually smells like dog and I wanted it to be actually clean

This actually isn’t a bedroom, it’s the sunroom because that way it’s not in the house but everything is all protected from the rain the weather and the cold and I know it kinda looks like there’s a bit of junk everywhere but I’m slowly going through things

Yeah, I’ve actually seen that before on a really old dryer yeah, I’ve actually seen that before on a really old dryer that was steam heated, and it’s probably older than this one, but this one physically doesn’t have any damper for the steam radiator, and I almost thought about maybe I could...

Oh, also on a related note of improving those pieces that I just got, does anybody know how to change a door seal on the Wascomat? And if anybody does do anything with forming Rubber door seals and gaskets and the like, I would love to see them try to. Remake the original one in something like...

Yeah, but according to a 10 hp boiler that’s almost 100 kW, but that doesn’t make sense to me but I think you probably understand it better than me I know for a fact that I could put in a couple of thermostats as this Dryer surprisingly doesn’t have any, it does have two lights one is red and...