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Oh wow! What an fantastic set you have there mark. I think my ideal set up in my garage would be to get the logic back to heath and get the matching dryer. also get the matching dryer to my servis. The problem's i have are i desperately desperately want something new & i've been told a 3rd set is not allowed..though i've done this twice and currently have 3 lined up lol. So im really frustrated and unsure what to do. The 3rd machine is just a dead hotpoint thats awaiting to be burried. I just havent had the time or the help to skip it.

I had a conversation with a friend from the states who owns a frontloader. I said that i think frontloaders would've had a much better impression on guys stateside if they were introduced in the 80s. Because like everything they were so much better. Anyone agree?

*Sigh* y'know one day there gonna have to start making really decent machines again. Without having to pay the £500+ price. hopefully.

Can you imagine a modern square doored machine? I think the closest to it are the hoover nextras & hotpoints. Though i think a modern square door for a machine would have to be slightly curvey to fit in with modern trend.

Darren
 
a fantastic thread

A few questions and answers:

Hi Mike - the MK75 (silver & purple) dryer was on ebay about 2 months ago (I can't remember if it sold). When i see interesting things I put them in faves and keep an eye on them - there is an early 1980's Philips dryer up at the moment if anyone is interested - item number 260091211253 (model D163).

Hi Mark - thanks for posting the piccy o the D6008. have never properly seen this machine before and it was a gap in my hoover photo gallery - a space is now filled.
Cheers for posting the servis 209 pic as well.
Also, can you remember what the model number of the electron dryer de luxe (energy control series) was?

Small ditty on the Servis Selectronic. When I was about 10 years old, me and my family visited the Ironbridge Gorge Museum in the West Midlands (home of servis). In one of the seperate museums (they are spread over the area and combined form the Ironbridge gorge museum) there was a Selectronic sat on a shelf/plinth. I think it was possibly (for some reason) a tile museum (was definately not the main Blists museum). May still be there - has anyone else visited and seen it?
 
is a rectangle a square?

Here's the old Westhinghouse space mates that I sold to Jimmy Filterflo about 4 years ago. The doors are kinda square.

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Servis Multivent 262

is that the compact version? it looks small and ive never seen the compact before.

My Maternal Nan has the full size dryer version still going strong from 1983!
These were the matching dryers to the Original Quartz although not computer controlled, it always looked the part stood next to the 602/3 circa 1983!

The 602/3 was going strong in 1995 or so when it was replaced with a Homark built in washer in the phase of a kitchen re fit. the dryer was kept and put in their garage.
The vent hose was never permannently plumbed in to the kitchen and was used with front vent, metal clip to connect the hose out the kitchen window.

I used to love playing with that metal clip thing along with the U syphon off the FS compartment.
Id much prefer one of these Quartz's with that black control panel, and plastic coated metal lid than the much later model Darren, Newwave1 has from 1987+.

But alas them models are rare!

Also it was great to see the Servis hose above with the 2 different shaped plastic ends..... Memories I can tell you.

Nick
 
just remembered to post my Nans Quartz had the silver door rim, similar panel to the Quartz Rob posted but with the red prog select LCD, the same one that can be seen in Haynes Washing Machine manual in the Electronic Programmer Chapter.

Probably still going strong somewhere too as they sold it on to some friends..... it never had a repair until they got shut of it despite having a toddler - 11 year old LOL fiddle with it weekly!

One of the things i loved about my Zanussi ZWF1440 was that when the door lock release/lock click clacked it was the same tinny noise that the Quartz Door Release mechanism made!

Nick
 
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becuase on closer insprection and bespectacled the Original Quartz Darren and Rob posted are nothing like,

My Nan had the one with each prog option button in its own beige line coloured rectangle. Each button had its own light IIRC and then there were programme progress lights too.

Bio
Half Load
Econ?
Drip dry
Cancel which when pressed sent the machine into Drain while the drum stood still, you could do this with the door open too.

I forget the others, but anyway it was the same as they Haynes manual one.
Il look in the library for it tommorrow.

Nick
 
Lightly off topic...

First of all, this is a great thread! My Gran had a washing machine years ago that had a silver sloping control panel and a the same switches as the bendix near the top... i think it was that but i wanna make sure. I remember the spin cycle seemed to be a load of pulse spins. It would just keep going to 400/500 rpm then once it reached it, it would stop and do it again. Don't think this was a fault because they got a new kitchen afterwards and kept the machine for a few more years. They also had the servis Model 209 drier. My other gran had a hoover with the silver control panel from the mid 70s. Still going last i heard!

My question is my parents had a hoover set when they got married. This was early 1983... the washing machine had a round door and was probably an electron 800 spin model but the drier had a square door. I just wanted to know if anyone knew if hoover made a drier to match these machines. My mum likes sets so i don't think she would have got one if she didn't have to!
 
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Hi Bob, glad you showed your set, I was thinking of these last night....

Nowthen, English Electric set in Primrose, Raywarp Bri-Nylon fitted Sheets & Killer Heels!!!, feel that static...There`s Lovely....

David, Welcome to the club, am trying to work out what your Grans machine might be???? was it an English make??

Mike

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Hi Paul

Im afraid im not sure on the model number of the electron dryer.Below is a pic of the rating plate.Unfortunately its blured.Can anyone work out the model number? It looks like D4214/6?

Hey Nick

The Servis Multivent is the full size version.If you notice it dosn't have the plinth at the bottom. These were removeable if you wanted to stack the dryer on top of the washer.It made the dryer a lesser height and so easier to load and unload.The family I got the dryer from had removed the plinth as it had been stacked on the matching quartz washer.They had lost the plinth.

Hey Mike

Love that quartz! One of my dream machines yet to found.

Mark

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Mike i love the 600 model.Do you still have this one? I dont remember if its water levels were higher than mine? and to correct Aquariusnick slightly mine is from 1982 not 87.

One of mums really good friends had the Quartz 600 which she replaced a timer servis with, i forget the model. But both were fantastuc machines.

Darren
 
Mike,

NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY!!!!!!!

Thats the One!!!!! Breathe Nick Breathe!!!!!!

Oh the memories.

Darren you seem to have your dates mixed up, the Quartz 600 - 603 as in Mikes pictures ran from 1980 to about 1985 or so IIRC and the later Quartz model like yours came in from 1986/7 so indeed yours is very late 80s and no older give or take a few months than your Logic.

Im sure a couple of members can vouch for my information, and my Nans Quartz was bought in 1983.
Didnt the model numbers for the early ones run with the year?
So those made in 83 would have been a 603?

Nick
 
Mark I never picked up on the missing plinth..... I guess its because modern machine dont have them LOL

Wow my Nan always had them side by side in the kitchen but Id of loved to have seen a stacked set.

I love this thread lol my childhood Servis!
 
Paul

Just been looking through a couple of Hoover service product data books. It may be a D6216 but in the book it dosen't mention that its a Energy control model but it does say it has the "on" light and the 4 square buttons.In the brochure showing the Energy control models along with the computer control control it does have the dryers.It seems though its before they labelled them "Energy Control". The machine in the brochure which is the reversing one is Model D6182 and instead of it saying "Energy Control Series" it just says "autosense". Im guessing the autosense turned into "Energy Control".I did after first seeing this brochure wonder where the energy control was on the dryers as it was showing off the energy control autos.You would have thought Hoover would have restyled the dryers to say energy control to match the washers.Dont understand why they did this with later models but not when they launched the range.

Hope that all makes sense.

Nick no problem. The quartz 600 is a fabulous looking machine.Its so stylish and I love everything about it.I once had the model below i think it was..the Servis slimline 1000. Nice machine aswell.And I liked the clunk when the door got released also.I had it before I knew about motor brushes.I thought it was dead so got rid of it but I know now it was just the brushes!

Mark
 

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