Abandoned laundry room.....

[matchboxpaul]

and here is the Hoover 3236H Automatic De Luxe, as it looks now...

 

[matchboxpaul]

and the Hotpoint 1509/05 Automatic De Luxe.

There is hope for derelict machines, just takes permission from the owner, a bit of money, time and patience.

Cheers
Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

Before and after for the 1509/05...

 

[redcarpetdrew]

Diamonds in the (very!) rough...

The before and after pics are just stunning! I can't even imagine how much patience and work those two took to come back to glory. Bravo!

 

RCD

 

[bendixmark]

outstanding

Nice restoratiom of the Hoovers I would not of thought it possible.I was fascinated with the abandoned laundryroom picture,the only thing that would have made it better would be if the machines were older.I think the room is alot older than the machines.Those are late 80s early 90s direct drives which have a certain charm I sold a few not long ago.I would not attempt restoring these as they are plentiful if you want one.

 

[electroluxxxx]

I think that the machine in the center of the room at floyd bennett field is a Design 2000 I have one in my apartment building.
this commercial machine featured the DD tranny and boy is it a power house

 

[mysteryclock]

Rust?

For those restorations, how do you deal with all that rust? The end results look amazing!