Back Up North to Durham a Year later for a Repair Weekend !!

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Time flies so quickly and another grand visit to the Northern area of our country, Consett, County Durham visiting Richard (Ricky5050) where we spent a weekend in the sunshine (unlike last time in the rain, see thread) fixing up new / old washers and sorting out what needs to be done....

Beautiful Summer Morning among the fields and meadows.

Vintage Washer Meet in County Durham....

From all corners of the United Kingdom - London, Wales, Merseyside. Lincoln and Derbyshire we descended on the hometown of Richard (Ricky50) in the North East of England for a weekend meetup, to work a little magic on his washers, vacs, vintage TV`s and also to celebrate Darren`s (SlowSpin66)...

www.automaticwasher.org

 

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Back Up North to Durham a Year later for a Repair Weekend !!

Traditional villages of stone built terraced houses which would have served the miners many moons ago as these villages where built around the working coal mines.

 

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Back Up North to Durham a Year later for a Repair Weekend !!

The gang ready for action...Al (Vacbear58), Steve (SESteve) Mikey, (MikeyMatic) Richard (Ricky5050), Mike (ChesterMikeUK) and Gary on his first visit having trained as a Hoover engineer in the 80`s. Darren (SlowSpin66) is behind the camera..

 

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Back Up North to Durham a Year later for a Repair Weekend !!

So we all get started, Steve (SESteve) has the job of working on the 1991 Hotpoint 9605 SpiraClean Top Loader, the last model produced...

 

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Back Up North to Durham a Year later for a Repair Weekend !!

The mission is to re-wire the timer so it doesn't agitate and do a water mix on the mixed temperature fill on certain programmes, so with wiring diagrams enlarged its a snip, clip and re-wire jobby...the result will be a static fill and less wear n tear on clothes like the original top loaders did.

 

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Back Up North to Durham a Year later for a Repair Weekend !!

Mikey (MikeyMatic) gets stuck into a once over on Richards (Ricky505) latest acquisition a Hoover MicroElectronic computer control washer from 1986, Hoovers first computer control washer, needs a new door boot and check up as well as a good clean..

 

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Back Up North to Durham a Year later for a Repair Weekend !!

Darren sorts out the first model Hotpoint Supermatic TwinTub from 1959 which needs a few new pipes for the filterflow and pump and a hole filling n fixing on the fiberglass outer spin can...get ready for the fumes !!

 

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Back Up North to Durham a Year later for a Repair Weekend !!

Meanwhile I covert the new Miele set and fawn over their sturdiness and ease of use..

 

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Back Up North to Durham a Year later for a Repair Weekend !!

And get ready to test out Jon Jetcones "Rosalie`s" Zero suds washing powder brought to London by Don on his visit last month...

 

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Back Up North to Durham a Year later for a Repair Weekend !!

I get to grips on looking at the Hoover Keymatic timer which has the same fault as a few of our members in that a resistor burns out (well it is original from 1961) so not allowing the timed portion of the cycle to proceed ie the fill heat works but the timed 4 or 8 mins wont... we now identify that Richards timer is the 2nd upgrade for this the model the AT model original was AU model ) which still has the larger timer, a clear Perspex moulded cover which is riveted to the timer and is a 36 impulse sequence timer as opposed to the later upgrade with 42 impulse sequences.

 

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Back Up North to Durham a Year later for a Repair Weekend !!

Steve is snipping away and has identified the circuit to be switched...

 

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Back Up North to Durham a Year later for a Repair Weekend !!

Meanwhile Mikey n Mike get to grips with taking off the old door boot and removing the computer control display module to see if we can clean the inside lenses which have some dirt and water marks on them...

 

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Back Up North to Durham a Year later for a Repair Weekend !!

Darren is busy mixing the two part epoxy filler to slap on the inside of the spinner can to seal it from water leaking out..

 

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Back Up North to Durham a Year later for a Repair Weekend !!

And while the epoxy is setting its time for brunch, Mikey is suggesting its not a Bratwurst while Darren is wondering whatever he means ha ha..

 

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Back Up North to Durham a Year later for a Repair Weekend !!

Following Ginger beer and cakes its back to work, the Hoover is coming apart nicely, a new door boot fitted courtesy of Qualtex our main parts supplier, the door boot is a DBT14 for reference...

 

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Back Up North to Durham a Year later for a Repair Weekend !!

The control panel on the Hoover is removed showing the crud behind the lenses etc...some of the neons are blown, need to speak to Gary (Electron1100) and replacements,

 

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Back Up North to Durham a Year later for a Repair Weekend !!

Steve has finished the upgrade to the Hotpoint toploader and Richards sorts the laundry for a test wash...and we test out the latest "Persil Bio PowerGems" detergent from Unilever UK....Richard had used them in the new Bosch with some of the gems sticking in the door boot with not enough flushing water action !!

 

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Back Up North to Durham a Year later for a Repair Weekend !!

Result as expected , no agi fill, the Persil Powergems had enough water to dissolve thoroughly and the downy ball was used...

 

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Back Up North to Durham a Year later for a Repair Weekend !!

Steve and Richard discuss results...