Bendixxii Restorations, Birthdays & Beyond !!

[chestermikeuk]

Well after the winter hibernations, log fires, theatre sets, long distance travel and ginger wine its time for a meet up and to start the proverbial list of "Vintage Restorations", so what better than to combine a few birthday,
boxes of parts and loads of determination for our first meet up of 2019. Over to Als Emporium for a weekend of repairs and rejuvenation !!

Here we are around the table meeting up on Friday night. The link is to last year celebrations at Beamish. L - R Mike (MikeyMatic), Steve (SESteve) Al (Vacbear58) Danny, Jon (lavamatJon) and Richard (Rickey5050)..

A Vacbear Birthday, Beamish and Building works....

We had a little gathering to celebrate the 60th birthday of our friend and collector Alistair, (Vacbear58) as Al`s place is currently a mudbath while building work is completed, Richard in Consett, Durham kindly offered to host. Al made a request to visit Beamish, a sprawling open air museum...

www.automaticwasher.org

 

[chestermikeuk]

Bendixxii Restorations, Birthdays & Beyond !!

Next morning up bright and early to sort out what needed to be done. first off the "Wall of Miele needs completely reversing after Al had a birthday treat of his own, the latest in touch control washer & dryer by Miele - Immer Besser !!

 

[chestermikeuk]

Bendixxii Restorations, Birthdays & Beyond !!

Richard works out a plan, a big tip when having to move all these heavyweights is to mop the floor and a nylon fleecy sheet, they then glide across the room, but first lets get all those connections unhooked !!

 

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Bendixxii Restorations, Birthdays & Beyond !!

Spanners at the ready...

 

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Bendixxii Restorations, Birthdays & Beyond !!

It was like a scene from The War Room trying to work out permutations of how many minimum moves to complete the exercise !!

 

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Bendixxii Restorations, Birthdays & Beyond !!

Luckily we had lots of enthusiastic bods to help..

 

[chestermikeuk]

Bendixxii Restorations, Birthdays & Beyond !!

Later on in the other room we set about fixing up the 1966 Bendix LT Washer Dryer that had finally come home, it was found 3 miles from me in a vicarage, bidded on by another member and driven up North only to be passed on to a Midlands member and then later of to a Southern guy who then passed it back to us, ha ha, its certainly clocked up the road miles...

 

[chestermikeuk]

Bendixxii Restorations, Birthdays & Beyond !!

As the main pump driven off the motor is well corroded and needing to be re-built it was determined to stick an electric pump on to water test for no other leaks...Darren (slowspin66) is in the middle of his Bendix LT restoration had lots of hints n tips...

 

[chestermikeuk]

Bendixxii Restorations, Birthdays & Beyond !!

New pump on, water hoses tightened and "Switch On" bearings okay, no cause yet to replace, new water fill hoses done already by southern guy Chris, and then...the proverbial water drip drip drip, was coing from the sump box and filter arrangement, The oblong box that holds the water strainer place under the drum was leaking from one of the 4 mounting screws. So its either drum out or get creative !!

 

[chestermikeuk]

Bendixxii Restorations, Birthdays & Beyond !!

Meanwhile back in the other place the Miele line up had been completely reversed and the New Miele touch control washer and heat pump dryer where being levelled, doors reversed and commissioned by Richard, Jon and Mikey !!

 

[launderess]

All lads together again eh?

Brilliant!

You lot always manage to have such fun.

 

[chestermikeuk]

Bendixxii Restorations, Birthdays & Beyond !!

The new changes gave us a chance to run the 1970` Miele set that arrived last year, those portholes seem tiny compared to todays uber sized doors !!

 

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Bendixxii Restorations, Birthdays & Beyond !!

Thanks Laundress, yal have to get over someday for some Laundry Fun Britwise !!

And to see just how much water our little spinners can extract ha ha, heres our White Knight spinning at 2,800 whizzing out the water from the Miele !!

 

[chestermikeuk]

Bendixxii Restorations, Birthdays & Beyond !!

Well all that activity took up the Saturday so it was for a welcome drinks and dinner !!, a cheeky glass of fizz with a splash of pink raspberry gin and hibiscus hit the spot !!

 

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Bendixxii Restorations, Birthdays & Beyond !!

Mark flew in from Barcelona to toast the birthday boys, here with Steve !!

 

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Bendixxii Restorations, Birthdays & Beyond !!

Heres Danny, Jon and Ian looking splendid against the new Wall of Vintage Pics..

 

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Bendixxii Restorations, Birthdays & Beyond !!

Darren, Mathew and Mikey resting the legs !!

 

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Bendixxii Restorations, Birthdays & Beyond !!

A Birthday Toast for the Birthday Boys,

 

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Bendixxii Restorations, Birthdays & Beyond !!