Bosch WVA 5

[superautomat]

Hey guys! Long time no see.

Happy to be officially back in this beautiful and authentic community. Luckily one of your loyal members reminded me on my Yt channel, that it would be nice to post some of my stuff up here and i promise im gonna be more active this time.

On todays menu we are serving:

-Bosch Vollautomat WVA5 from the early 60's aka the German Keymatic, before BSH group

Some photos and inspection wash before his "Palm Springs" treatment

 

[superautomat]

And after all the refreshments...

Boilwash with style

 

[foraloysius]

Great machine! And thank you for sharing the videos.

An uncle and aunt had exactly the same machine. It was very expensive, even more so than a Miele IIRC.

My mother didn't like the keyplate system, so she chose the model with the three dials. I remember the 760rpm speed too as it was mentioned on the plate inside the machine. Apparently they later brought it down to 720rpm.

Here are a few pages from a Bosch brochure from 1969. Yours is probably from around 1965.

 

[vacbear58]

Wow

Thank you for sharing the pictures and the video - you have done a wonderful job of restoring this machine

 

[chestermikeuk]

BOSCH Vollautomat WVA5

Hello Martin, great to see you back and posting about the Bosch WV5 keyplate action washer, it certainly looks stury and a mass of wiring which looks like the top of the Hoover Keymatic .

Is the smaller motor for wash and the larger one for spin ?

Question: Is the timer made by Holzer as the Hoover is ? it looks very familiar, great to see it working again, those clicks n whirrs sound familiar !!

Cheers, Mike

 

[superautomat]

Thnx guys! :* It was quite a work but it's not that hard if it feeds your soul.

Yes it's a Holzer timer.

The smaller motor is for washing and the bigger one for spinning.

 

[kenwashesmonday]

My goodness, there's more wires in that thing than you could shake a stick at!