DDD 5/10/12 - Hoover Twin Tub

[wiskybill]

Inspired too..

My Hoover has also been on vacation for a while. Will have to put it to use other than a resting place for the iron.

 

[macboy91si]

Hoover Auto-Rinse

Maybe someone else who has an Auto-Rinse model can comment, but I don't find it very effective, which is a bummer. I remember wanting for a 0519 auto-rinse machine for a long time until coming across a decent one. After having one for a while, I've come to find the feature kinda useless. The spinner starts too soon, and doesn't even get up to speed before the switch cuts it. After that it starts up again very quickly and it just doesn't rinse very well and seems hard on the motor. If it ran longer at a time and could get some extract speed going and then fill longer before take-off that would make a big difference. The conveniance factor would be great if it actually worked...

 

So, I ran a test on the 0519 last night and got the results that I sorta thought I would. I washed a load of hand towels in the machine and put half in the spinner and ran the auto-rinse cycle. After 4 on/off cycles the water was still soapy. I also changed rinse temperature 1/2 through and noticed that clothes in the top were cold and the clothes in the bottom were warm. So I did a manual flush n' fill rinse and got noticeably better results. I used low water flow with warm water and compressed the load a little to compact it and saturate it. I started the machine and the water cleared right out. After that load spun out, I did the other load in it with just manual flush-rinsing. 2 fill n rinses and the water was clear and these were absorbent hand towels with Tide w/Bleach (non-HE). Also the spinner motor did not seem to be under the same duress as stopping and starting with water in it.

 

Maybe there is a way to adjust the water switch (simple Singer pressure switch) to get longer fills before starting, I don't recall there being an adjustment.

 

Photo:

 

A Perfect "Hoover-Cake"

 

-Tim

 

[chestermikeuk]

Hoover Cakes

Hi Tim, would agree with you there, I never switch the "Auto-Rinse on before I`ve done a long spin out of the wash solution - then during the auto rinse will lift the lid and slosh the clothes around with a deep rinse, switching on & off a few times just to lose the water quickly...

Saying that will always use low foaming detergent now in any twinny!!

Did you get to demo the Oovas at Kevins wash-in??

 

[mickeyd]

Tim

that is precisely why my Hoove has lived in the closet for the last 3+ years. But with my test load the other night, after the brotherly advice, I have new found hope.

Full disclosure: the rug, although bulky and ungainly, is not a full load. I used regular (non-HE) Liquid Tide with a touch of Downey.

 

Tim, try a really light trickle, a stream that takes, oh, about 3 or 4 minutes to activate the spinner. Only guessing here. When I do a full load , will let you know what happens. Towels make for a really good test load. But with Alice washing for a family all those years, and our UK buddies using TT's regularly, something is missing. Interesting. The grand collective mind of Aworg will flush out the answers.

 

Hey!--it just came to me--Is it possible that I got better rinsing because fabric softener has suds-kill properties. I only use this version of Tide for nasty stuff, and this is my first jug, so I'm not sure what is going on.

 

[akronman]

Hoover 0519

Tim--and others---I have a Hoover 519 in semi-regular use, and No, the Auto-Rinse feature isn't perfect. I use it for maybe 3 or four flushes, but then also click over to spin with no flowing water and get all the water out, repack the bottom clothes to the top of the spinner and vice-versa, and while re-packing I have a medium water flow and rinse each piece in the spout. Auto-Rinse is convenient but not perfect. But it does allow me to leave slow water flowing and walk away from the machine for a bit.

 

As for warm versus cold water use in the rinse spinner, I usually make that decision based on the comfort of my hands more than on the needs of the laundry or machine.

 

I very much like the spout instead of models which are all manual hose fill and rinse, and I very much like and trust this fun machine, but NOTHING about it is AutoMatic, nope.

 

[mickeyd]

More truth

I spun the crap out of that rug before starting the auto-rinse cycle. Do that out of habit for all heavy stuff after years of being spoiled by Unimatic spins.

The more washing liquors extracted, the easier the rinse.

 

[macboy91si]

Spinning

Yes, I always spin out the initial suds, and as a manual rinse machine, it's fine. I was mostly disappointed with the auto-mode, it could be so much better. I was thinking of maybe wiring in a delay circuit to delay the contact on the pressure switch, maybe that would give it more time to fill and then more time to spin. It really only needs a minor tweak.

 

Or I'll never get around to it

 

-Tim