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Hi Jamie the only experience I have is in changing the micro switch, the machine had been intermittently working for quite a while, also this is an easy and cheap first thing to try, as if the drum doesn't reverse it will strip the thread, which from memory is a metal thread on the shaft and a...

loved that instalment Mike great to see the variety of appliances, the planetary kenwood action, and beating and sweeping action of the Hoovers and electrolux upright. But oh, our garden looks so dried out when compared with the others, Just shows how dry it's been here, though as much down to...

oh yes I had a morphy richards astral years ago, I think I remember you lifted the pedal with your toe, locking the lid and staring the motor, pressing down, switched off, applied the brake and unlocked the lid.

Great to see these Louis Can anyone see a resemblance of the domestic twin tub in the first brochure and the Gobin/Scales double G. It just looks a taller thinner machine and the top deck with the round lids and sunken spinner just rang a bell. Louis, all three twin tubs here, seem to have...

Mike, just thinking aloud that grey knob on the wash deck of the acme, could it just be to prop the lid open slightly when boiling, the lid looks like it would fit the wash deck quite well and with no suds return hole to let the steam escape. Mathew

Any idea when your Gran would have bought this machine, I'm all but certain rolls didn't market a single tub washer and the colston/ariston is the only versions of the rolls type single tub I know of. However, there were several other cheap impeller action single tub washers around in the...

Hi Keith This was Darren's, as they came up over the years I always let them go to others, then when was outbid, Darren was good enough to offer me this one, I know he has the original 1400, not sure if he has another as well. Yes I'm sure the gap on this and the original are the same. I think...

So wonderful to have shared in this virtual weekend Mike Thanks for what has turned out to be a whole weeks work and more. Great we can now relive the weekend. Great to to have met a few Aw friends from other parts of the world, we've not met before yet you all seemed so familiar and great...

Hi Anthony, Hoover knobs it's a bit of a key hole surgery job, back off, the switches are on a metal section that unscrews, the knobs are linked to the switches with wire metal hooks, unhook these, then you can use some small or snipe nose pliers to squeeze the spring washers on the underside...

Thanks for those pictures Paul, I notice the first picture of the acme challenge spring 1963, was based on the original acme, minus the twin speed, it describes agitator action, 5/6lb load and clearly has the spin deck of the original, no giveaway rolls bolts either side of the machine and is...

Welcome from Cardiff Just half hours drive from Hoover at Merthyr Tydfil, looking forward to reading your memories of appliances and what your working on these days. I have a Nilfisk GM80 I found outside a shop and have been using regularly for going on 20years. Mathew

taking what you've got Keith, Mike has said and remembering what Nige has written, it sounds to me it was initially a pulsator with a recirculating jet, they called the pulsator an agitator, then when we see the hole in the wash deck, the jet was dropped and a twin line hose used. The way it...

oh Walter domestic bliss, you describe the scene vividly. Way back up in your previous post, you said about your friend with the sandpit and rather watch the hotpoint twin tub. That ran so true for me, as a lad sent over the road to play with a lad I had absolutely nothing in common with, there...

Maybe the Goblin was more duomatic descended not having a jet, plus, it appears to have a hole for suds return, or a 2nd drain hose in the corner, maybe. Is it me or does it seem to be washing in a clockwise direction too. I think the two fairy snow adverts are both Pye twins, a quick...

Hi Rob it's most likely the follower cam in the timer, it's just inside the timer behind where the shaft goes in, that's the mechanism for the preselection, so when the shaft is turned, a sort of lug is pulled in, the timer then rolls around to catch up with it, when it does, it slots into...

Keith's Fridgidaire is the rolls version, Impeller wash action, Fridgidaire spinner. the Philips version I think was more like the basic Philips with the dials on the front where they are on Keith's Fridgidaire. Of course I can't remember where I may have seen a photo of one. Also, My old...

well spotted Ian though at that flow rate, they're probably pumping from both washtub and spin dryer. Thanks all for posting all the literature, quite a few I've not see before. I had one of the AAC870, the last model going on 30 years ago, one of the pumps had seized and burnt out the wash...

lol well thats's me wrong about the two lids, I know you'd have shown me those photos Mike, but had forgotten about them, I get what you mean about the streamlined look, but think those dials make it look older than the ones on ours. Ah Al, could it be the suds return from the arm is on the...

Thanks for posting those instructions Alan, Interesting to see the different filter arrangement making use of the continuous circulation of the wash water, and I know I may not have been the only one to have thought this model had a double spinner lid, but can see from reading the...

No need to say sorry for your English, I'm hopeless at other languages. With the machine I showed the photo of in your other thread, it did the same, the timer just hummed. what it was, the drive cable from the timer to the progress indicator had started to rust, making it stiff, it's a long...