hotpoint95622
Well-known member
Bendix automatic Home Washer MODEL D (511)
Good evening gentlemen
Had another play with the valves, it seems to be too do with bars, no not the sort that adorn Gary’s windows ;-)
Pressure, if it’s very low and I mean very low the valves work properly with a good flow of water into the air break and a good stream into the float switch tube, though the hot one dose run on slightly due to the rubber washer and the piston not seating and the cold one dose drip due to the same problem, if the pressure rises by the slightest margin both stop working.
So from this I can only assume that when the machines where installed both hot and cold feeds came from the hot water cistern rather than being connected to mains pressure.
So in today’s modern water system which run at mains pressure there will be problems, I tried only opening the taps slightly but the pressure is still present after a few seconds. Am I going to install a water cistern no I don’t thinks so.
What’s to do then, back to my idea of mounting a small box with modern valves in and removing the pistons from the originals. All I need now is scour the parts pile and find two single valves, a black box and pipe fitting to reduce the original rubber supply pipes to fit the modern valves.
Photo of the new pipe work from the original valves to the air break, which had also perished.
Good evening gentlemen
Had another play with the valves, it seems to be too do with bars, no not the sort that adorn Gary’s windows ;-)
Pressure, if it’s very low and I mean very low the valves work properly with a good flow of water into the air break and a good stream into the float switch tube, though the hot one dose run on slightly due to the rubber washer and the piston not seating and the cold one dose drip due to the same problem, if the pressure rises by the slightest margin both stop working.
So from this I can only assume that when the machines where installed both hot and cold feeds came from the hot water cistern rather than being connected to mains pressure.
So in today’s modern water system which run at mains pressure there will be problems, I tried only opening the taps slightly but the pressure is still present after a few seconds. Am I going to install a water cistern no I don’t thinks so.
What’s to do then, back to my idea of mounting a small box with modern valves in and removing the pistons from the originals. All I need now is scour the parts pile and find two single valves, a black box and pipe fitting to reduce the original rubber supply pipes to fit the modern valves.
Photo of the new pipe work from the original valves to the air break, which had also perished.
