So wonderful to have shared in this virtual weekend Mike
Thanks for what has turned out to be a whole weeks work and more. Great we can now relive the weekend. Great to to have met a few Aw friends from other parts of the world, we've not met before yet you all seemed so familiar and great virtual company for our Zoom sessions.
Keith, That must have been an optional extra. I got it years ago and had all but forgotten about it. A friend of a friends, mum had died and we serviced her hoover junior for many years, so her son offered us the cleaner and said there was a hotpoint twin tub as well if we were interested, it was a mid 70's model without the autorinse, and having no space or thoughts of collecting, passed it on to a family that could make use of it. But with it came the two 1400 lids and this red ring, which of course I hadn't a clue what it was or probably even what a 1400 looked like back then. Now apparently, she had hotpoint check both of these machines every year right up until the year she died, so if hotpoint recommended this optional extra she'd have had it. If this is how it was sold, or via the original shop I don't know, but it's the exact plastic of the filter tray and has the notch for the spin lid handle. Again knowing the gap between the deck and the spinner, may be it was not out with the original machine, more a later addition following lots of call out for lost items or blockages, we are perhaps a bit more careful than some of the users back in the day when loading the spinner, would be great if you had any literature that may shed light on this optional extra.
Mathew
