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Hi John. They were all gone in Australia in 1980, that was when the licensing agreement ended between Malleys and Whirlpool, only the 24” machines were ever made here. The old timers talk about how the tooling was worn out at that point. The only change in 20 years of manufacture was a taller...

Hi Henrik, Are you saying the Little Giant heat pumps can dry a load in 30 mins, or that they’re half an hour faster than the domestic models? The manual here says they’re about an hour per load. Cheers Nathan

A friend of ours has two little fluffy dogs and lives on acreage, the dogs could originally run through the gaps in the rural broad mesh fence. Each of the fluffballs took about 2-3 weeks to learn, but his collars emit a high pitched warning noise as they approach the fence, before delivering a...

Jon, coming from the land of the cold wash, we know that detergent can remove visible staining, but it generally always ends up with a dirty machine or funky smelling towels over time. I’d be interested for you to try with towels and see over 4-6weeks whether they still smell fresh after a few...

Hi Chris, Thankyou for your wealth of information. We had a Genesis in 86 that had the brown and black control panel, which I think was the first generation of these machines. Unless you opened the lid while it was spinning, which would cause it to stop with a loud clunk, clunk and then a bang...

Thanks John, I ordered one friction damper this morning, so I’ll see how it feels comparatively when it arrives. The idea of spending $240 on a machine this old isn’t a good one, but aside from the SQ, the LG wash tower is the only full sized machine left on the market here that isn’t a Samsung...

Hi Eddie, Your logic is slightly flawed, giving those who go paperless a discount is the same as charging those who want a paper bill more. It just sounds nicer. Most services here, if you insist on a paper bill, will charge around the cost of postage and handling, which seems to be are...

Hi Brendan, these were Australian designed and manufactured, from the early 80’s till the mid naughties. Dom, maybe reach out to Gizmo on here. Chris has a much better understanding than I do about how these work. From memory, the delicate cycles had a short stroke in one direction, but I...

Thanks Alexander. I did pull a friction damper yesterday and there is still a fair bit of resistance. I’m tempted to buy one new one and see how it feels compared to the originals. I’m used to the Miele ones having zero resistance when worn, but maybe these started out stiffer. It’s good to know...

My duet obviously decided I was getting cocky and has started shredding in the last two loads. The first was a full load of darks and it totally shredded the back of a dress made out of synthetic fabric. I’d assumed that I’d left a zip in zippered and just wrote it off. Today I had a full...

Glenn, so did Hoover, the first Hoover TL's had a partial neutral drain. They then went to spin drain for one model before moving to an electric pump and neutral drains again.

Hi Adam, I’ve collected most of the attachments for the A700 and 701, I also have an A901 I got BNIB 3 years ago, plus all the 900 series attachments. They take up a huge amount of space and other than the potato peeler and the modern food processor bowl and dicer, I rarely use anything...

No syphon tube on my main wash. But I’ve always assumed it can overflow into the space between the two compartments and then whatever is left, is diluted enough to drain through the slit. My bleach dispenser does have an opening, but no label and it’s not referenced in the manual

Mark, I did a teardown of one recently and was able to use a US repair manual for diagnosis. The main changes in the AU spec, are cold fill only, the bleach dispensing section in the drawer has a lid on it and the heater is used in every cycle. The dispenser mechanism has a position for bleach...

Mine is 10yo this year. They originally landed in AU for $3600, I bought this when whirlpool were running them out and shutting up shop in Australia for $1299 I put a new belt on a few years ago to deal with a squeak when it changes direction, but otherwise it’s had zero maintenance.

Gabriel, they’ve done the same with F&P refrigeration now, there are only a couple of models left that come from Thailand and the rest are all Chinese made Haier rubbish. We ordered mum one of the new ones, the first was scratched up the side, even though the box was fine, the second had a...

Robert, what size was that box, it doesn’t look big enough to have held 8lbs of tablets.

You’ve got to remember that hot water supplies were usually limited and people were used to reusing water in wringer washers and even baths. It got even worse if you had to boil the copper for hot water. That was my grandparents only hot water supply up until the late 50s. You generally sorted...

Are you sure you haven’t accidentally turned on prewash? Or your saying that it never fills with water again and just tumbles for 2 more hours?

Today I scrapped a Miele Heat Pump drier from 2011, I bought it second hand for $100 and when it arrived, there were no secondary filters and the front of the evaporator was choked with fluff and lint. I cleaned it out but it never managed to dry a load, it would get warm but never hot, it was...