Bendix
Hi keith welcome to the club from me as well, it seems this thread is going off in all directions, I have very little experience of indesit and zanussi machines, so its good to read of your interest in the early italian machines.
At least 20 odd years ago as a teenager I repaired an early 70,s indesit, the drum had been jammed by some thing so I had the drum apart etc, when testing it I was agast at the slow spin speed and spin drain, I mean I knew thats what it did but had never seen one in action.
You mention the english electric liberators, I yearn to get my hands on one of these, even if I don't ever get one myself, I would just love to see one in action, and see the three belt and clutch set up in action. My grandmother had one in 1959 when they came out, lasted untill 1987. Unidirectional tumble, very quiet with lovely clicks and clunchs of the pump and spin solinoids. Fortunatly I still have the original literature, but as a teenager there was no chance of hanging on to the machine, I suppose at the time I'd never even considered collecting anything, but just thought the instructions worth keeping. At that point my love of washing machines was very suppressed lol.
Paulinroyton, thanks for posting the bendix information, fascinating to read, as I am supposidly restoring this model for a friend of mine, well I've not touched it for months due to a garage move, mostly works ok, but full of scale, and with the coin trap being epoxyied up, I think it will envolve opening the drum up, anyway just thought an excuse to put a photo on the thread. Oh and I'd be amazed if it span as fast as 402 revs, but your probably right, I've never known a figure for it. I had heard of a speed as low as 200 and something? Whos laughing now indesit lovers lol ?
Mathew
