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Interesting film. I really should invest in some kind of softener here as the water is extremely hard. The only place I've experienced soft water is in Birmingham when visiting relatives.

The reason Hungarian is spoken in parts of Romania, Slovakia etc is because Hungary was historically a much larger country but was reduced in size after WW1 in the Treaty of Trianon. It is just over a quarter of the size it was before WW1.

If it uses rubber friction drive wheels the rubber tends to harden with age and lose its friction. There are people making new wheels or tyres but it can be expensive.

The thing to note with the plethora of model names used by Hotpoint is that they don't have much to do with the design or technology in the appliances. A First Edition may well be virtually identical to an Aquarius internally and a WM12 will share most of the same parts with a 9538. If...

Yes, Slavic is the more usual term for people of the former Yugoslavia. My mother used to refer to a language called "Serbo-Croat" but I'm not sure if that is still an accepted term? You mention Hungarian and Romanian languages but they are totally different. Hungarian is unique and nobody...

Wow, that's quite a detailed review! One of the reasons I tried it was to deter mosquitoes, with which we are plagued this summer. They are supposed not to like the smell of lemon and I have been spraying my exposed skin with lemon and eucalyptus oil. I don't think it works though anyway. I...

Many parts are common to all the 9500 and 95000 machines, only timers and fascia panels tend to differ.There are different spin speed motors but they can be mixed and matched safely. That is one advantage of the Hotpoints. In contrast, Indesit always seemed to have loads of slightly different...

Well the wash results are no better than the Lidl LEL Colour powder I was using before and I can't detect any lemon smell.

If you need to minimise water consumption you might be better with a modern front load automatic.

I bought a 2 kg bag of Tide Lemon powder a couple of weeks ago and opened it today. The machine is still going so I don't know if the results will be good or bad. Like most packages here, the writing is in a few languages, not including English but in one corner of the bag it says something...

You might be able to get the timer repaired by QER or EMW.

Looks like it's made in Brampton Ontario. I wonder if it really is "Recommended by leading dishwasher manufactures"?

Yes it should! That will be an extremely reliable machine and should give many years of service. Hopefully the rubber parts will still be OK as Zanussi door seals and hoses are normally top quality.

Like Dyson vacuum cleaners, the washing machines are very difficult to work on. They are very complex and were never too reliable. Although they were very expensive new you could probably get one for nothing these days. The fact that Dyson only entered the washing machine market so briefly says...

Nice restoration job. Good that it came with a working CRT. You can get them repaired but it is very expensive. I will stick to collecting a few bits of audio equipment but I appreciate the satisfaction it must give to restore an old telly.

Apparently parts of Siberia have permafrost to a depth of nearly 5000 feet so I suppose the water pipes might as well be on the surface but very well lagged.

I'm hoping to keep goats at some stage and would certainly like to make goats milk cheese but would probably also have a go at butter. The incentive here in Hungary is that I can only get unsalted and I would prefer slightly salted. I end up sprinkling salt on the bread after spreading the butter.

Thanks Ivan but I was meaning, were they available there in the USSR days?

Thanks for all the interesting and informative posts, Ivan. Yesterday I was talking to a Financial Times journalist who was telling me he recently visited the Gorenje factory in Slovenia for a piece he was writing. Were Gorenje machines also sold in Russia?