Hi all,
Tom - yes, that Creda of yours was the generation after my Creda (ours was a 1993 model I think, which we bought second hand in 1996) and it was indeed a great washer and rinser. It was also manufactured before the Energy Label came into force (our version of Energy Star), so the wash water came up the window to where the door glass was flat, as did the rinses so was very splashy! And even on half load the water still came upo so it touched the bottom of the door glass. Ours was also a Supaspeed 1000 - they used this terminology right until a few years ago when they were just branded Simplicity or Excel - before if a machine was branded Supaspeed it had a high spin speed - 1000 or 1200. Well, bear in mind this is going onto 10 years ago so 1000 or 1200 was quite fast on the market at the time. Unfortunately just recently my grandma got rid of her 1993 Hotpoint version; without even consulting me so I got the shock of hearing from my dad of all people one day after he'd been visiting that Grandma had gotten a new Beko. I could cringe just knowing that her old Hotpoint was much better. But such is life - hopefully when I have room for a collection there will still be 95 series Hotpoints, or Creda Supaspeeds out there!
Nick could be on target with the problem you have in interim spins - before her Hotpoint/Ariston POS (and that's not Picture of Serenity thank you Mike LOL) my nana had a mid 1990s Hotpoint Aquarius WM25. The interim spins would spin for about 5 seconds - gushing all the water down the window - and then distribute again for a minute or so before a 30 second 500rpm spin? On the final spin it would do the same procedure but slow down from 500 to distributing again, distribute for another minute then spin at 500, 800 and then 1000rpm for 3 minutes, unlike the early 90s Hotpoints which had similar interim spins, but the first spin would last for about 10 or 15 seconds before slowing down to distributing and then doing a 30 second stint of 700rpm or so. On the final spin, it would do the same procedure but when its about halfway slowing down from 700rpm the timer would advance and then the washer would zoom right up to max speed. If you set the timer to the last portion of the spin cycle, you could make the washer go up to max speed straight away without distributing! Anyway that's enough of me babbling, but I have to say Tom that those Hotpoints right up until the WM50/60/70 disasters of the late 90s (ugh, I shudder when I even think of our old Hotpoint WM64), so try and keep that machine for as long as possible! I'm sure even if a part does fail and you can't locate one in the US, that one of us in the UK could perhaps locate a part as those Hotpoints were as common as pig muck here and still are today.
Nick - you will find all out tomorrow, planning to post a thread though people here would expect nothing less
. Thanks for keeping us updated though - that truly is a great machine and hopefully one day I'll be able to see it for real
I love those Hotpoints to bits, and still remember my auntie's Microprofile from the same era with the sloped control panel, Hotpoint's answer to the Servis Quartz more or less. The Hotpoint seemed more stable than the later models - both with my Grandmas 9528 and our Creda Supaspeed after washing towels you would often have to push the machine back into it's recess!. BTW - saw you were using Persil with Comfort tabs - how do you like them?
Louis - great excuse! Although I've told you before there's no shame in admitting you forgot to put your reading glasses on along with age and nutrasweet! *ducks*
Mike - did you get my recent email? Sent one about 2 or 3 weeks ago now... not sure if you have got it as my email is still playing up my end. Trying to persuade dad to move to a better email provider but that's like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
All the best guys,
Jon (typing this whole post without using my right index finger - harder than you may think! Why without using my right index finger you ask? Well silly Jon here was being a cheap skate and cutting tokens out of a box of Ariel and pushed down on what he thought was a blunt knife only to find out he had been using the wrong side of the blade!)
