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    English Electric, Hoover & Rolls Repair clinic Weekend,,,,

    Thank you Foraloysius - no, I wasn't!
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    English Electric, Hoover & Rolls Repair clinic Weekend,,,,

    Hi - am I in the right place for Hoovers - as in vacuums? Just been servicing my 50's Junior (going beautifully now!) and wondered (as the gold paint has flaked off) if these were ever produced in polished ali - like the two 30's Seniors I have were? Does anyone know if decals are produced for...
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    ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIBERATOR TUMBLE DRY 8973 Hi Mike - Mark has been extremely helpful indeed and has tried to explain to me electrical resistance! The heater elements blowing were all my fault from a lack of understanding that they had been wired in series and I assumed parallel - and the fact...
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    Hi Richard and thanks. I can't look for another - I am committed! I have spent a fortune on it and had it powder coated in 50's Duck Egg Green and painted everything else myself with Genolite; 2 coats of Galvafroid; motor overhauled; contactor installed; new wiring; new belts; new door spring...
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    Of COURSE - how bloody silly of me!! Thank you!
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    ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIBERATOR TUMBLE DRY 8973 MY TROUBLES ARE VERY FAR FROM OVER! HELP, PLEASE! I thought I had eventually found a firm to re-wind the open coil elements cradle but after sending the frame to them weeks ago, they are still trying to find someone to do it (and were quoted by one...
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    ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIBERATOR TUMBLE DRY 8973 Just seen your 5 extremely useful pages of schematic with belt sizes - I am most grateful to you Mike - I think it is? Also thanks, Darren - yes the cradle is with a firm in Norfolk, hopefully being re-wired as we speak with a slightly reduced total...
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    ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIBERATOR TUMBLE DRY 8973 I have been getting the number wrong - it is as above - 8973. Any idea of date, anyone, please? Does anyone have manual please? Mike in Chester?! I need new belts and the old ones have vanished and wondered if anyone knew the lengths, please? Best...
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    ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIBERATOR TUMBLE DRY 8973 FURTHER HELP, PLEASE - SORRY! I have put in a simple mechanical on/off timer and wired the motor and heater elements through a contactor - OH - just thought - how much extra current does that take? - and all is fine on low heat and after a moment on...
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    English Electric, Hoover & Rolls Repair clinic Weekend,,,,

    PS - Did the original Liberator dryer has a period of running cold at the end of the cycle?
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    ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIBERATOR TUMBLE DRY 4602 Hi - not sure who has kindly replied last? The deed is done - I have ordered and paid for mechanical wind-up timer and a 4-pole contactor. Thank you so much for you help. The photo above the same midel as our 1958 Liberator washing machine that I...
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    ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIBERATOR TUMBLE DRY 4602 LAST BOTHERING - I HOPE! Ordered a 4-po;e contactor and the simplest of clock-work one-pole timers (oven timer) which will energise the contactor, hopefully, so motor and heater come on and go off at the same time. No cold running - but I don't care...
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    ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIBERATOR TUMBLE DRY 4602 Mike - Could I ask you to look at this page: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TIM03-120-MINUTE-16A-RUN-BACK-MECHANICAL-TIMER-WITH-BELL-PERMANENT-POSITION/140828262360? This looks like a clockwork simple on/off timer bringing motor and elements on together...
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    English Electric, Hoover & Rolls Repair clinic Weekend,,,,

    ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIBERATOR TUMBLE DRY 4602 Mike - thanks very much for your help. I've stripped out un-necessary wires associated with the old timer and now I have: Heater element wires connecting the two thermostats in series with wires going from the first element to the switch on the front...
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    ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIBERATOR TUMBLE DRY 4602 TCM 580 TIMER NO - SORRY - FAILED! I haven't got a switching timer negative and presumably that explains the one terminal unused for which I can't seem to find a circuit anywhere - Help, please! Best wishes, Kenneth.
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    ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIBERATOR TUMBLE DRY 4602 UPDATE - PLEASE THINK NO FURTHER - TCM 580 TIMER (which I shall now use on the Liberator and put through 2 double-pole contactors): I think I have cracked it! Found my meter and have deduced what happens - a terminal which must be for the heater...
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    ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIBERATOR TUMBLE DRY 4602 Very kind of you both - don't worry about the old wiring, or indeed the old timer (which is in hundred bits!). I have bought a TCM580 timer (from a Hotpoint Aquarius, I believe) and am going to re-wire through a 4-pole contactor (or possible 2 -...
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    English Electric, Hoover & Rolls Repair clinic Weekend,,,,

    ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIBERATOR TUMBLE DRY 4602 I wonder if I might ask your help, please and I am sorry if I am being a damned nuisance as a new-comer?! I have bought a Hotpoint TCM 580 timer to use on my EE tumble dryer and have no idea as to where the wires go and can't find a schematic. I have...
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    English Electric, Hoover & Rolls Repair clinic Weekend,,,,

    Anyone know of any jet-cone washers for sale - they look a fun machine - - ?! With regards to my EE Dryer - any chance of obtaining a rubber insert for the out vent to take a flexible air hose, please? Happy New Year to you all. Kenneth.
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    English Electric, Hoover & Rolls Repair clinic Weekend,,,,

    Thanks for your help, but seems a shame to rob an existing EE dryer for spares, so shall get a different timer and re-wire. Many thanks.
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