1966 Russian Hoovermatic

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Looks an interesting machine, I like the spin deck, the moulded steel and the lid is a very different arrangement to ones we are used to seeing.

Apparently it only uses one motor for all functions, I did wonder as the angle of the empty hose had it been on one of the standard models it would have shot a plume of water all over the room by the force of pump!!

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Russian Hoovermatic

Wow Mike, who knew? Thanks for tracking this down.

I wonder if the design was licensed from Hoover or if they just got a machine, took it to bits, and re-assembled it in their own way. Having searched out the vid on youtube and seen some of the others it looks like it was designed so you could was the floor with suds directlt from the machine - it looks almost guaranteed for that to happen.

On the link is what I suppose is a Russian equivalent to flickr with some very interesting pictures indeed including vacuums that seem to be based on the Universal "torpedo" design and whay is almost certainly a mid 1950s Lewyt.

Oh I wish I could read and understand Russian.

And what about this, presumably earlier, Hoovermatic

http://photo.qip.ru/users/ivan39142/
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Hi Mike & Al,

That is a fab looking machine, liking the mint green refinements !! LOL I had a look at the other machines on that link and there is one thatr look very similar to the AEG Lavalux.
How does the wash tub empty on the lower pic machine ? do you attach a hose onto the hose at the top of the wash tub ? It doesn't look like that metal arm-bit moves..how weird.
Thanks for finding it thou..really good !!
Keith
 
And

An original, looks like a Maytag agi and tub with a launderette spinner, didnt Electrolux do a similar one?

Al, thanks for finding the link, a fascinating array of cultural appliances, great to see similar designs but slightly different. Yes I wonder if they are built under license, that Hoover twinny with wringer controls is the best I think, and also the colours. Havnt even got to the vacs yet!!

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Danger, Will Robinson!

Take it from someone whose job has often demanded research on international websites:

If you fool around with Russian websites, you will end up with the very latest and trickiest viruses and Trojans - all the really new stuff that your virus protection can't catch yet.

It's not a question of "if," it's a question of when - and the answer is "sooner rather than later."

Russia is where much of this stuff comes from in the first place. Many Russian Web entrepreneurs have no respect for your privacy, your computer or your sanity, and if you give them any chance at all, they will prove it to you.

Ask me how I know.
 
From Russia With Love

What great machines, yes i must admit they bear a passing remeblance to ones from the west, its great to see a guy from Russia showing off his twin tub,I always had the feeling that Russian built stuff was generaly made out of box girders etc :-)

As Al says it is pity we dont speak Russian it would be good to talk to him about his home grown machines.

Good timing aswell from John with his Russian washing book.

A very refreshing and visually pleasing collection of machines.

Thanks Mike for starting this thread

Gary
 
Jon:

A few years ago, while researching an article on the Narkomfin Building in Moscow, I found my computer acting funny. Virus check showed zip. Next day, the computer would not boot.

The computer shop found a couple dozen really nasty viruses and Trojans, one of which they had no way of clearing. The solution was a new hard drive, total system reload and putting my files back via my backup.

Total cost, over $300. I'm all for international brotherhood, but I also don't need that kind of hassle.

P.S.: After all that, my editor didn't use the article. That's life in the magazine biz for you.
 
Sandy the same thing

happened to me 7 years ago at work. That time it was a customer coming in with a 3.5 floppy. I inserted the floppy and in 5 seconds the screen went black and the entire hard drive appeared to be deleted. 5,000 designs - 13 years of work I hadn't backed up gone in minutes.

Found a Russian expat up in Toronto that did recovery work. Cost $700 bucks but he was able to buy a new identical HD and physically transfer the "burnt" HD to the new electronics to retrieve the data. It was well worth the $700 bucks and now everything is backed up everynite and is also divided among two unconnected computers.

He said an interesting thing to me, I had sent him the offending floppy, his comment was; this was a highly unusual virus ( for the time) in that it had wiped clean the floppy disk as well, he said only military strength viruses do that!
 
WOW !

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

SIBIR is the brand of the first and second machine. They looks just like Hoovermatics. Cool :)
 
Great stuff, MIke. Did Jon Charles movitate you for the Russ

In the first vid, I thought maybe the guy was holding the hose up by sqeeezing the machine against the sink, lodging it in there.

 

He's so deliberate and exact in his moves. And he hoists up the items to let most of the water fall off. Do you think more water may have shot across the machine if there had been more water in the spinner, as you say, or is this something different altogether? And you, King of Twinnies, will figure it out. It's all so interesting, Thanks for so many treats.

 

Love, love, love, seeing the Maytag that Brad just restored conjoined to a spinner. What a Frankenstein hybrid, Only in Russia.
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Have only seen the first movie. Excited to watch the rest later.
 
From Russia...

Hi Gary, fascinating to see machines form the other side of the world, I cant get over that Hoovermatic twinny with the wringer STOP controls, looks fab..still cant work out where the outlet pipe is though?

Jon, yes would love to see the Thor Rockett in action, assuming it is a Spin Washer?

Al, just viewed the vacs, like the luxes and those rocket like Erres machines, the little grey compact is what I would have expected to see!!

Hi Dejan, is Sibir a main established brand? or did they just badge other makes?

Mickey, doesnt jetcone jon just motivate us all!!, I did see his thread, but not quite, I was searching some links on my youtube vids and came across the vids, then Al found the pictures and voila..

Nowthen, I have yet to fathom out the pipe outlet from the first video...and also if the washer and spinner use the same motor, am assuming the spinner runs off the wash motor, the wash motor spins at 1425rpm whilst the pulsator spins at 545rpm, the sound of the spinner seems slower and quieter than ours and the pump pressure seems lower - so does the spinner only spin 1400 or even less??

Thoughts anyone?
 
thoughts Mike

I agree fascinating to see something new yet familia. I've had a good look at the hoovermatic videos and photos with the wringer stop. The first observation is that you never see the washtub and spinner running at the same time, could the motor bare more resemblance to the power wringer single tubs, where the motor runs one way for the pulsator and the other for the wringer, that may explain the wringer switches of the first machine, maybe timed for wash direction and no lid switch on the spinner so spin stop instead of wringer stop? The motor could be under the wash tub as we are used to, then and a real speculation and do I dare suggest, a keymatic style belt of the back of the wash motor, turning 90 degrees over 2 idler pulleys then round the spinner drive pulley and pump. The motor would have one direction pulleys, so only one end was engaged when the motor ran in either direction, hence wash or spin.

The mark 2 version obviously has a spiner lid switch and brake, so wouldn't need the stop button, and rotary selector selects wash or spin and works the ocv style pump valve behind the scenes, the spin pump always running during spining, and either a second pump or a valve to empty the tub, as on the singletub machines where you empty the tub on wringer mode, rather than with the pulsator spraying the ceiling.

Well these are all just thoughts, would be great to see the back of, and also to have a go with a spinner with the stop button instead of a lid switch, how often do you think we'd be standing there waiting for the spinner to stop, before we remembered the stop button lol.

Thanks again for the thread and the little brain teaser, any one any other suggestions, would love to read what you think.

Mathew
 

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