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Rich, just watch the cap on the detergent bottle. We’ve had three bottles and it’s ended up breaking off all three off them, well before we’ve finished the powder. My current bottle has cling film over the top with a rubber band to keep the moisture out.

We use Miele Tablets, but Finish rinse aid, I've never felt the need to order the Miele stuff. As long as you have any wetting agent, it should work fine. If you buy Miele powder, watch the cap on the bottle, the three bottles I've had, all break the cap off in the first couple of uses, then...

In Australia, it was because until the naughties, only the rich had central air. In the southern states you might have forced air heat, but AC was rare. So you had split systems or window units to cool parts of the house. I grew up in a house that had a late 70s Carrier split system, we used...

Heat pumps can go dryer, in my early Twin motor Miele dryers, stuff comes out hot and bone dry, even st Normal plus. The newer generation on extra dry comes out feeling damp until you shake. The stuff is dry, but you just have to program your brain to feel it differently. On the plus side, the...

I’ve had that happen with old sunbeam stuff. If it was unused, the control should be ok, but there could be moisture in the sealed element. Sunbeam never imagined that these would last 50 plus years. The only thing I can suggest, assuming it’s an earth leak rather than a direct short, is to...

The device itself isn’t complex, but what it adds to the washer is, in addition to lots of water pathways, two additional controllers that you don’t see in other models, one of which seemingly has water passing through it. My assumption is that this controller is similar to what could’ve been in...

Hi Adam, To use the slow cooker crock, You'd need to find a sweet spot between simmer and 1. A slow cooker should barely if ever have bubbles rising, so somewhere between simmer and 1 should be the right place, if 1 is 98deg C. Otherwise when using it as a saucepan, 1-3 should be plenty for...

Leon and I have been collecting these Supertronic Miele's which are now about 10 years old and one of them came with the Detergent Dispenser. This device is about as big as a Kitchen Aid, and stores powder on the left and Liquid on the right. You can put a range of detergents in there, but...

Hi Charlie, how’re you doing? The bendix looks lovely, but the taps caught my eye, where did you get American style taps like that in Australia, I’ve never quite seen anything like that here? Cheers Nathan

Hi Darryl, From cold to 140deg, you generally allow about 45 minutes with a 2400watt element. To start heating, you push the white button next to the temperature dial. So I generally let it tumble for one increment first, then start the heating which stops the tumbling. So you basically get a...

Hi Tom. You are right, that is a pump trap/guard, it pops out for cleaning. You can also remove the heating element via the bottom hole if it needs replacement. It has fully drained before it switches from wash to spin, you get lots of spray on the lid, I have a Perspex cover to put on there...

Hi Tom, I have a few of these, with one hooked up and working. There was a couple of generations, I have this early model that uses a float and mercury switches for the water level and also a later model from 1962 that uses a pressure switch. As far as I can tell, these machines were of an...

The Aussie Neptune was the same. From memory the element was 1100 watts, if you let it cold fill, it would run for 3 hours to heat to 60. My duet is cold fill only, but it has a 2200 watt element. It takes around 2 hours for a cottons 60 with two rinses.

In Australia, it became mandatory to use arc fault breakers in April this year. They didn’t exist in the AU standards until 2018. So going forward all new breakers will need to provide earth leakage and arc fault protection.

John, I love you, but when your view is one sided you’re definitely blinkered against any other reality. So Ovens, ranges, cooktops are all ok to generate resistive heat, but drawing 2000-3200 watts in a washer is significantly more dangerous? The world in most 240v countries has washers...

In the 240v world, that setting just changes whether the machine is H+C or C only fill. We have solar hot water, so in summer I have it set to H+C and in winter I change it to cold only. The difference being the starting temp of the water, the final temp is as set

Scrud would generally be a buildup of biofilm containing fabric softener fats and bacteria. Fisher and Paykel used to have a page on the explanation because the hot eco active rather than a hot deep fill could cause it to occur. I second doing a hot wash with the detergent tablets at 90 and...

If the inside is stainless steel or Teflon you can just keep washing the base in the dishwasher. But over time the rainbow coloured sections will turn black. These sunbeam pans still had an aluminium outside layer on the base, even if the inside was stainless. Use some steelo or another soap...

Hi Chris, I think it was the late 80s, very early 90s, Hoover had three seperate mechanisms by that stage. The small, medium and large units. I don’t know when they all homogenized though. What year did Blackstone/Hoover build the Hoover autos in the US with the green control panel? That...

The lightburn spinners have no water seal or bearing below the outer tub. It’s just a large funnel shaped opening that the spin shaft poked through. You can only spin rinse in the light burns that have twin motors and the wash motor needs to be running while you’re adding water. Otherwise...