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Fantastic

Congratulation of finding what we all want.

Well done and can’t wait to see photos of the restoration.

Lee
 
How do Lee.

Thanks for the comments. we are really pleased to be the custodians of it and will get it repaired as soon as possible. we are eager to see what it does, without the grinding of worn bearings.
Cant wait too, to get the dryer alongside it to get the true feel of the purple 70's.
Now - when are the true Hotpoint liberators going to seep out of the woodwork? has to happen one day.

hiya Phil.
The machine has a big zanussi induction motor slung under the drum.
rest assured, when restoration commences, i will be there armed with camera to record the event and I will create a thread on it.
Will also get some vids done of it too.

cheers guys.
paul
 
Zanussi build quality

Congratulations on such a fine example of a Zanussi-point. The giant induction motor in this one will purrr away until the end of time.

I imagine there are a fair few of these still running over the country, machines with low spin speeds tend to live long lives, especially with the build quality of these early Zanussis.

Tom.
 
Thanks for all the wonderful comments fellas,

Tom im with you on the low spin speeds, I often wondered what wrong with my parents fisrt machine a 600rpm Frigidaire, old enough to remember it in the kitchen but not old enough to know how it died.

I may ask one day but as the folks have had so many machines with varying faults they probably wont know,

As soon as the wonderful hangover I am left with after a fab night has gone I will start to get ready and when Paul comes over we can start some videos.

R

P.s Tom your Zanussi powder drawer looks mint inside, what did you use to clean it? Both Zanussi's of ours and a few others I have seen have really accumulated thick powder deposits that are now hard as concrete to budge. Dont know what it is about those drawers. Have any of yours been in this state?

Tried scraping but its no use. Is there a wonder product?

Cheers
Rob

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Rob & Paul you will really enjoy this machine. You will also get used to the 520 spin. When I had mine I constantly kept waiting for it to speed up at the end of the spin cycle as that is of course what we are all used to and it took my brain a while to accept it was going to saty at 520 and then stop.

Mark
 
Powder drawer

Hi Rob,
I used Sainsbury's Power Liquid Toilet cleaner! "Kills all germs, destroys limescale". I imagine Tesco etc. do some kind of equivalent. The JS one is in a black bottle. Apply a liberal covering and leave for ten minutes.

Having said that, this one wasn't too bad to start with, the powder drawer on the Z9191T washcraft was a lost cause and I replaced it with a new one. Not too expensive if I remember correctly.

Tom.
 
I should add that the powder drawer on my Z9191T is identical to that on the Hotpoint 1826 and is still available.

The original handle itself is detached and then replaced onto the new drawer when fitting.

Tom.
 
Great minds think alike Tom!

Just given the machine one hell of a clean and doused all internal parts with Harpic Power 100% limescale loo cleaner and inside its fresh shiny and new.

Will soak the powder drawer in some later and see what happens if not then we can get a new one.

Cheers for that Tom your a massive help

R
 
How Liberating!

Congratulations you two, what a beaut! Finds like this and Gary's KMDL makes me optimistic that there's still plenty of other goodies out there for us all!

Can't wait to see the old gal once you've weaved your magic on her, call me tasteless but a purple Hottie in an orange Formica kitchen would almost be enough to sway me from the Great Red Roundel, hehehe!

Simon
 
How do Simon.

we have just had it running and made a number of vids and took some pics.
Should be uploading a few later this evening.

we are both really pleased with it and, barring the spin when it rumbles quite a bit, it is smooth and softly quiet.

Gary's 3243H is quite superb - been one hell of a week for us all really methinks.

The 1826 still needs some tidying up round the edges and there are one or two areas that requires touching up with some enamel paint, so a small paintbrush will be wielded next weekend.

Next weekend will also see the 1826 and Ecologic go into store for a while until the summer, when the 1826 with a bit of luck will be repaired. Fingers crossed.

cheers
paul
 
Mark/Darren

As Paul mentioned we have run a wash through and I must say while the water levels are high, they are not as high as the Hoover levels.

Possibly suggests yours may have been faulty but my calculations based upon the water usage of 145 litres mentioned in Mikes posting ours is working fine.

The 145 Litres is split between the wash, cooldown and 5 rinses means an average fill of 24 litres vs Hoovers 120litres for wash and 3 rinses.
 
Simon

Of all the people I thought I could woo with a Hotpoint you were never one of them LOL.

Oh for some orange Formica, Marley flooring and maybe some Dulux Aubergine Matt.

Just on the lookout for the Mustard Hotpoint Light and Easy cleaner to match.

Just a teaser until later...

Starting the first wash

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jon

Neptune soap scrubber?

What are they?

In the machine is the "Arielette" powder dispenser which came with those P&G detergents in the early 90's.

The reason we had them was because the sump hoses in most vintage machines filled with water and soap from the machines dispenser drawer, the first gush of water washed most of the powder into the sump which wouldnt then be utilised in the wash.

The advent of Ultra/compact powders meant that ultimately most of the powder would of been lost before the water level was correct. So they invented the dispenser ball to be added to the drum which meant all the powder was used in the wash whhen the action started and none was lost down the sump.

These days with special sump systems we are back to using the drawers on modern machines.
 
the back of the machine which, rather irritatingly, has absolutely nowhere to tie the drain hose or cable flex. annoying when we came to put the machine away, but hey nothing too bad....

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First cycle was run to clean it out a little. Note the fiddly door release mechanism - slide the switch to the right and pull handle forward....

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The dial.

A bit grubby unfortuantely, but nothing we can do without splitting it down to individual components.

I have done this with the standard Hotpoint 18series dial and it is fiddly and difficult. Invariably the metal programme guide, underneath the plastic dial cover, is permanently pitted and unrestorable.
Think we will leave this one as it it....

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I really like this picture!

The mirror finish panels on either side of the facia panel are immaculate, resulting in this unusual picture opportunity....

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To the loaded wash...

before switch on with its first load under our custodianship - quite possibly the only load it does, before bearings change in the summer.....

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a short first vid to show the high level rinse - apologies for it being out of focus a bit. First front loading purple seen for a long time maybe?

The last time, prior to today, that i saw a wet hotpoint liberator door bowl would have been just over 25 years ago....

 

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