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At the risk of being offensive... Not all machines are the same. Not all Cottons 60C programmes are the same. Just like not all fabrics are the same, nor should they all be washed as cotton. There are a lot of people who don't understand this basic premise.   Machines are machines, not...

Try other cycles? Have you tried all the 60C cycles? I've just had a look a manual for a similar machine and it seems you can get a hot wash on Synthetics and even the Easy Iron cycle.   If you're just using Cottons at 60C it may be worthwhile trying Synthetics or Easy Iron. Maybe these run...

9510W Ah, my family's machine from July 1986 to March 1996. Interesting in retrospect; anathema at the time! I couldn't wait to see the back of it. One water level, no fabric conditioner compartment...even the Candy we had before it gave us that much!   Endless cycles of number 3 + Economy...

and the specs... second half...(sorry - coming out a bit small)

Brochure scan of the Aquarius Microprofile... ...annoyingly, that's the one model I don't have a scan of from the brochure, so we'll have to wait til I can bring it to work and scan it on the quiet! Still, here's something almost similar - the model down from it...

water usage You're probably looking at 100 litres for a full cottons load; 75-80 litres for a synthetics or wool wash (they have 3 rinses instead of 4).   It looks as though there's a half load button to reduce water consumption further on smaller loads, cutting it down to a minimum of about...

naming conventions... Interesting machine...I wonder just how popular these top of the range models were? I certainly never encoutered one except in the shops!     I'm going to be picky for a moment: this does not seem to be an Aquarius machine at all, nor is it an Ultima. This is from the...

Houses on Albert Sq. Launderess, the answer to whether the housing stock of Albert Square would have had clotheslines and coppers is pretty definitely yes! They're all typical Victorian fodder seen up and down towns of Great Britain. Most likely there would have been some kind of scullery on...

Didn't the Hotpoint WMs of that era with Graphite fascias have white doors? That always seemed a bit odd to me. Maybe some of those White First Editions with the Brown fascia were given the same treatment? Perhaps it was only Almond-bodied machines that had the brown door to match...or had they...

Increased capacity did not mean a bigger drum... The Ultima models apparently had the same size too...despite taking an extra 0.5 kg...   Does anyone have a full brochure with these specs from the 9lb loaders (later range brochures probably did; earlier ones didn't)?

Drum size in Hotpoint WM / Aquarius range For those who are wondering about drum size, here's the page from the 1995 brochure where it gives you the specs...

Smaller scale modification... Whilst the Jetsystem Electrapoint is no doubt an impressive bit of home engineering, I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on a much smaller modification I'd like to make to my Hotpoint of the same vintage.   The problem is the pump is very noisy and causes a...

I hate to be mean but.... ...Glenfield, your dates in reply 6 are all over the place. There must surely be a Hotpoint history thread in the Imperial Forum archives?   Broad overview time:   The 95- series was put into production towards the tail end of 1982. These were a slightly redesigned...

Errmmm... ...not exactly. I think what I did say was that detergents still cause foam into the final rinse in spite of using a high-level rinse machine even with hard water. Bear in mind here that I am dosing for hard water so using more detergent than someone with soft water. Perhaps if I cut...

Turn off the nostalgia? It has to be said that in the UK, Hotpoint was a mainstay of relatively reliable, good quality laundry equipment before the Indesit takeover. That's why we'd rate models like the WM6x above as the last good machines by the brand. Still so very repairable too. Things...

Twin tub rinsing - in the spin can - was always considered poor-to-average by test institutes when the machines were popular. If you trawl through the archives here for vintage Which reports you'll see they weren't highly rated.   On the plus side, you can rinse as many times as you like. On...

Tricky to say... ...from my personal experience the Hotpoint 95 series were good enough at rinsing; some people here have remarked that they weren't the best, however. Obviously you'd get more of a volume of water passing through the load compared to your Bosch so in that respect they might be...

Persil liquid in 1997 (my laundry at volume heyday) was still the phosphated version as I recall - concentrated by that point; a thick white liquid. It didn't foam as much but it was still a horror to rinse out properly - the full dose needed 4 super rinses in the Hotpoint WM12 (which I'm still...

Artificial water softeners Have you checked your instruction book for any mention of artificial water softeners? I know for many years it was in the back of Bosch brochures (and quite possibly their instructions) that connection to mechanically softened water was NOT recommended. I'm not quite...

Almost vintage Candy? Somehow it seems a novelty to find a 20-something year old Candy! Well...over here, anyway... Anyone near Leeds fancy it? Seems in good shape too...