Ebay UK November 2007

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Lol sorry dan i posted the link in mega excitment! lol!!!!

Ahh yes. The hotpoint jumping out of its surroundings, my childhood machine was a 9534, it too would do those violent spins which when your small sat infront of your machine, is pretty terrifying!!! You know the signs, the towels clinging to one side of the drum on distribution,uh oh!!!RUN!!!! lol!! Out lept the machine!

It was more terrifying as we had the dryer on top for a number of years with the proper hotpoint stacking kit, so it would jump as one whole unit! imagine a fridge freezer leaping out at you lol.

Heres a pic i found of ebay of the same model, which one of our own lucky members has!

Darren

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OMG Darren & Daniel.

I had the same reaction when clicking on the link - how the hell did i miss that one.

totally fantastic machine - what with all the clasic philips talk recently it would be fantastic to see this one saved.

PLEASE SOMEONE SAVE THIS MACHINE - pllleeaaassseeeeeeeee! (I would if i could, but i can't).

it looks in fantastic nick and there is the matching dryer available too (scroll up a bit).

paul

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Indeed, my 9534 can be just as violent and it's a miracle that it hasn't shaken itself to pieces! The suspension is very stiff on mine so the whole machine tends to jump off the floor briefly when it's unbalanced. On one occasion the jump actually detached the speed module from its bracket and came into contact with the timer, causing a short circuit and tripping the RCD. Thank goodness my house has an RCD otherwise I may have needed a new module/timer!

On the other hand it is the most fun machine to use with all those characteristic motor noises, the buzz from the timer during drain and the hum during the static heat. It doesn't mess about balancing before spin and comes across as a no nonsense, easy to use workhorse.

I am currently using my Zanussi Z9191T as my daily machine but the Hotpoint will be in use again soon!
 
i have always felt sorry for those dryers which found themselves bolted to the top of and shaken by the washing machine. i can well understand how a fixture the size of a fridge freezer all of a sudden marching towards you can be a tad alarming.

the 9901 and the classica i owned a couple of years before were my first encounters with severely unbalanced machines.

my parents 95452 was a picture of absolute composure pretty much all of the time. this made my experience with the 9901 and classica a real eye opener for me.

tom - you mention the buzz from the timer when rinsing! my mums 95452 used to do this too - the timer used to buzz something chronic. as you say, old hotpoints certainly had charecter.

how is your Z9191T doing - nice and quiet with the induction motor?

be great to hear how its going.
paul
 
Paul, I'm very pleased with my Z9191T. It is extremely quiet and very solidly built, complete with steel outer tub and that very nice old style Zanussi drum - no plastic drum lifters here! The cycles run similarly to the FL1012 my aunt used to own, however that had a brush motor and distributed before the spins. Mine goes straight into spin from tumble speed once all the water has gone and is rarely out of balance.

The step cool down after the wash is a feature I remember well from older Zanussi's and I'm really pleased that mine has it too. The 4 rinses all use plenty of water so performance is pretty good.

All I've had to do to the machine since I got it was change the door seal which had a few rust marks on it! This wasn't as hard to change as I thought it might be (there being no detatchable front panel). The mains neon has burnt out so I am in the process of ordering one from Electrolux. Still, it runs as well as it probably did 23 years ago!

If there's anything I've missed and anyone wants to know about please feel free to ask!

Tom.
 
Paul, our machine was actually pretty stable. My mum always always washed clothes, towels and sheets seperatly and for some reason we haven't had any problem with the machine jumping about. Then again, i'm sure the 9934 is a newer model so they could have messed about with the suspenion. I remember the drum had no movement though and the WDI9091 had a fair bit of back and forth play.

I had a classica washer dryer in a flat and it never seemed to balance properly. I thought it just wasn't leveled properly. you wouldn't hear it until the final spin then it would come out to meet you when it reached 1100rpm lol.

The electra machine looks like the electra machine we had in home economics. The door was plastic and the handle was a wee semi circle. It also had a temperature knob. You know, it was a philips machine becasue of the progtam chart. I always wondered that. Until i came here i always thought electra was just another brand like creda that just done hotpoint machines. The electra hotpoints always looked smart to me though. Although they were probably creda machines with hotpoint motors haha. Oh electras are so confusing!
 
Tom,
Do you have a picture of your zanussi? My zanussi does a very very brief distribution before the spin, all of about 3 turns and then whoosh's up for the first burst! it also does 4 rinses, 3 high, one medium, after the 2nd rinse spin it does the medium water level rinse and doesnt spin after the rinse, i dont know if that has anything to do with the joint half/load-auto dry button.

Does your wool programme have the ridiculously high water level?

I had a classica 1000, a rather entertaining but potentionally dangerous fault occurred when the pump failed and it began to do full spin!!!! A full load of rinse water and the machine began to spin at 800! I turned it off as soon as i realised what had happened! lol!

My classica and my first newwave were terrible for balancing, the levelling of the feet is crucial with those, as with my new wave i have now, once it is stable in its surroundings it doesnt give any bother.

Ahh old electra hotpoints! There was a washerdryer in that funky grey they did in the 90s, in a house we were going to rent, the house wasnt anything special but i really began to push for it once i knew that was included lol!!! Heres a pic attached. alas we never moved into that place:p

Darren

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Cool!

My auntie had a tumble dryer that color. I always thought it was creda because it had that filter thing on the door so you couldn't see in. My best mate replaced his hoover washer dryer with a white electra washing macine. I remember the rinses were different than your normal hotpoint. Can't remember what it done but it was different anyway!
 
Bit of a Mystery to me

what on earth is this Servis dryer all about. have never seen one like this before - anyone care to spill the beans on the machines vintage, name and Mk number? be very interested to hear.

might not even be that old, but the brown facia and typeface of the name 'SERVIS' would seemingly date it to the early to mid 1980s.

I am intrigued!

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servis dryer

hey paul,we had them dryers over here they were the same as zerowatt,they were out around the mid 80s say 1985/86 my brothers friendsmother had one they had reverse tumble and its act still goin,they were made in spain/italy zanussi,and bendix and novum had the washing machines in the 80s also the the washer i think was a fl800 anyway hope it helps,

mark
 
cheers for the info.

it was a real shock when i saw the machine on sale - 'what the hell is that' i thought.

is a compltely new style of servis that i never knew existed.
am intrigued by the period you mention - mid 80's.

could this have been an intermediate series of machine, introduced between the end of the slimlines and the introduction of the full front door series.

any more info on this series of machines, very gratefully received (especially a model number for the dryer above!).

once again, many thanks Mark for the info.
regards
Paul
 

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