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Wow! That's 45 minutes away from me! I'm supposed to be making more room not adding to the collection hahaha...

I know that these are almost the size of a Hotpoint top loading automatic so I'm not sure what I'm going to do just yet. The lack of a heater is a let down too but this is sort of a too good to miss kind of thing.

I'll sleep on it and see what I can do.

James
 
Hi James

You might as well get it if you can manage to squeeze it in - not that many Gala machines will crop up! I'd take it but we haven't moved yet (and of course it is miles away), and I have no room at present. Hoping to do so next month, and will have to start reclaim machines stored elsewhere, before I think of adding more!

Best of luck with it if you do decide to go for it!

David
 
Philips

I am trying to work this one out. It looks like a regular hand mixer (and I have seen one similar listed elsewhere) with regular beaters and "stick blender" attachment. It looks like the mixer would power the processor as the drive is on the top, but a regular stand appears to be missing for the mixing bowl in the listing. And I cannot work out what the second power unit is for, yet it appears all complete


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A trip down memory lane

Well in slightly different clothing. This Indesit washer dryer looks to me to be from the mid 1980s, or at least the design is from that era I think. Why, because I owned one very similar, branded Philips, which I bought in 1984 - also vented - with exactly the same programme layout and even the door catch was the same although the control panel was in brown (and rather different looking) in line with the Philips range at the time. This was also sold in Eire as a Thor.

These have a weakness, as I discovered. There is a little pipe runs from the bottom of the door boot into the front edge of the drum. With the constant vibration of spinning this quickly wears through (within in a year I would say) to provide a ready leak - a conventional boot would have been better. But a rarity now.


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OMG!

I didn't even know there was something like a Lavatherm 3100! How BOL can you get! This was never sold in the Netherlands and I wonder about Germany. Overhere the BOL model was the 3200, that had more push buttons/options (signal, low temperature and a button for the door opener). The 3200 was a timer model too, the 3300 had sensor drying, the 3400 had lights for the humidity level. All vented models. The 5000 series was the condenser line.

I can't make anything either of that Philips box. I've never seen it before.

Thanks for sharing, great to see all the interesting stuff that turns up.
 
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Seems to be a "Seal A Meal" type contraption. We had them on this side of the pond as well.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-DAZ...-Sealer-Storage-Freezer-Bag-NIB-/371433598427

Dazey along with almost everyone and their mother offered these gadgets. You filled the plastic bags that came with these units with whatever food or what not then placed it on the lower edge of the bottom. Then you brought down the top which "sealed" the bag. You could now place the bag in freezer, fridge or wherever to store. IIRC many or some of these bags were microwave oven and or boiling water safe. In essence you were making your own "frozen" or whatever meals in a bag. You just put the whole thing in microwave or a pot of boiling water and, Voila! An instant meal.

Like many kitchen gadget of the 1970's or so the idea was to save money. Instead of a housewife buying ready made frozen foods in packets at supermarket, she could do her own at home. Other uses were for storing leftovers, packing away meats and other foods for freezer storage and well you get the idea. They were also promoted as way to take advantage of savings by purchasing things in bulk.

A variation of these seal a meal gadgets are vacuum sealers. Basically the same operation except the devices suck air out of packet before you seal. Again the idea is to provide better long term storage of foods, in particular those you are going to freeze for long periods.

So if salmon steaks are on good offer this week at Tesco's you purchase several, cook up one or two for that night's meal then vacuum seal and freeze the rest for another time.

Have had both in past and tend to prefer the vacuum version better. Got a Food Saver system NIB from a thrift several years ago. It does the job but you cannot do breads and such as the vacuum literally sucks them flat....

 
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