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Hi Alan, They're working fine for me on a Windows 11 PC too. Thanks so much for bringing these features back to life ... they were sorely missed by a lot of people!

Thanks from Down Under Thanks for everything you've done with this site, its sister site (Vacuumland) and the communities in both. I've been a member for about 13 years and have really enjoyed everything I've seen. I'll miss the POD and the layout of the old sites, however I know that the...

Thanks for explaining the outer tub design ... ... and for letting us know who convinced Betty to switch teams for your videos!

What a wonder! Both the Unimatic and Betty. I don't quite understand how the water was expelled from the solid tub at the beginning of spin and then caught "in the cabinet" for the pump to then deal with in its own time. There must have been some other "tub" to catch this water. What dd it...

Is that an 80's Bendix pair I spy? Hi Leon, Reply #1, photos 5 and 6. My mum had the washer and I desperately wanted one when I left home. I couldn't afford it at the time though. It was a wonderful machine and seemed to manage distribution and spin-up better than any I've seen before or...

Fascinating! Thanks for posting

New World indeed! What a fascinating story this has been, although I'm sorry to hear you couldn't keep the Dishlex running. My mother had a slightly earlier model of that dishwasher. Then Dishlex-SMEG, made in Italy, rather than AU. Bought early 1978 ... about 10 years after buying that very...

What a wonderful sight! Congratulations on curating such a magnificent collection and sharing it with us all

Consider disabling the heater ... There was a design flaw in the circuitry. If the thermostat fails closed, the heater remains energised throughout the cycle ... melting through the plastic outer tub during spin. My partner and I got a free replacement tub from Hoover when this happened and...

We'll all need to learn German ... Here's Lucas ...

Wow! I had no idea we ever had full-sized American dryers under Australian branding. Were they locally manufactured? I only ever think of Simpson as the smaller wall-mounted units of the 70's and later. Anything this large was an import. You learn something new every day ...

Just amazing! What a summer you've had with your hobby. Well done!

Beautiful! I'm guessing it's early/mid-70's. There was a lot of mission brown and burnt orange in kitchen colourings back then

Or maybe it's insurance against Trump ... If Trump wins and introduces the tarrifs he's spruiking, the US will only have what it can make itself because theoretically everything else will be priced off the market by comparison. Bosch (and other EU manufacturers in particular) would lose market...

Or it's insurance against Trump ... If Trump wins and introduces the tarrifs he's spruiking, the US will only have what it can make itself because theoretically everything else will be priced off the market by comparison. Bosch (and other EU manufacturers in particular) would lose market...

Safety issue with red/green? I thought one of the reasons that colour combination was no longer used (at least in Australia) was that a colour blind electrician could confuse the two colours. I believe different colours (brown ACTIVE; blue NEUTRAL; green or yellow/green EARTH) were brought...

Similar swap out happened to me ... My machine was about 5 years old. I use the shirts cycle regularly, which finishes with the "pre-iron" function. This basically creates steam and tumbles the shirts in it which helps a lot with releasing creases. The shirts are always quite warm when you...

Miele Museum If you ever get the chance, visit the Miele Museum in Gutersloh, Germany. It goes through the history of the company and has many examples of washing machines, dishwashers and vacuum cleaners over the years. The automatic wringer isn't there ... but this one is ...

Wow! I didn't realise any Australian manufacturer ever did an "American" sized tumble dryer for our market. I'm only used to the smaller Hoover and Simpson models from the late 60's/70's. What a find!

Norge In Melbourne There was a laundromat next to the bowling alley at Chadstone Shopping Centre when it opened in the 1960's. I'm certain they were Norge machines. I was 8 or 10 and fascinated by washing machines already. I'd never heard of the brand (family/friends had Hoover and...