Getting All Modern - Hotpoint 9560

[aquarius1984]

We certainly have been busy bees with Hotpoints lately and this week was no exception.

We spent a wondefully long weekend and picked up our Microprofile 1300 De Luxe from Mathews in Cardiff.

As ever it needed a few bits doing to it which we relished getting our hands dirty for although Paul took charge this time and did the majority with Mathew.

I was more than prepared to polish and refine the machine armed with polishes and creams.

Paul got to practise his bearing changes afetr the previous owners ran it into the ground using it with only 1 arm of the spider attached to the drum.

Thankfully all it needed was new bearings and spider to start with or so we thought.....

Just to make sure it ran electronically we ran a fast spin (1400 - and more about that in a minute) with the drum belt disconnected and managed to blow up the FHP motor completely with the armature breaking into chunks and exploding - lessons learnt there!

The machine is badged as a 1300rpm but they were programmed and abled to spin at 1400rpm according to the service manual and actual machine display.

This machine is dated July 1986 which makes it one of the first Hotpoint Microprofiles off the productuion line as they were introduced a couple of months before in May 1986.

Funnily enough IIRC Hoover seemed to think their Logic 1300 was the fastest UK machine introduced in 1987 - it really is IIRC from the Timeline on the previous Hoover Website but this goes to show that if my rememberances are correct about Hoover then Hotpoint were way ahead with the fastest 1200rpm + UK made washer spin speed and a year or two before that.
Perhaps those with the appropriate service manuals for Hoover can clarify this?

Anyways heres some pics, and restoration pics will follow as we are able to.

Rob and Paul

 

[aquarius1984]

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[aquarius1984]

immaculate

 

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Restoration pics to follow tommorrow.

Heres one to start it off.

 

[newwave1]

*JAW FALLS TO FLOOR!* Is there anythin you guys don't have lately! I'm so very jealous! Can't wait to see more of this!

Darren

 

[aquarius1984]

Video of the display

 

[aquarius1984]

Wall of Hotpoint

 

[lavamat_jon]

This is the same model my mum's friend used to have! Never got to see it on, but always loved seeing it in the kitchen!

Unbelievable that the essential design lasted for well over a decade!

Jon

 

[gizmo]

it's a match!

That is the exact same machine I have!

Mine no longer works: it needs a belt, the door lock sometimes refuses to open, and Ithink the brushes have had it again. (E30 error code - that's motor/brushes, isn't it?)

I have had mine for many years, I was given it by a friendly washing machine mechanic who didn't want to re-sell it as they were never sold here, so it is an orphan, and no parts are available.
We go back a long way, that machine and me. When I first got it I put new bearings in it, when undoing the nut on the drum shaft I slipped and gashed the back of my hand on the sheetmetal opening at the rear, severing a tendon. I went to hospital to have it stitched up, they messed up the anaesthetic and almost killed me, and left me with permanent tinnitus (ringing in the ears, caused by a lack of oxygen as my heart stopped during the anaesthetic mix-up.)
Being a true washing machine nut, as soon as I was out of hospital, I finished the bearing job and got the machine back in action.
In the next 12 months its armature flew apart (I fitted one from an old purple door GEC wreck, an 800 (?) rpm spin model but it has worked perfectly till now), and replaced both the circuit boards when it mysteriously "went dead" one day, I had a pair of changeover reconditioned boards sent out from England. It has had a couple of sets of brushes too, they don't seem to last long.

It then behaved itself as my daily driver for a few years, then went into retirement when we moved to the country, as it doesn't work on either a generator or the solar power. (running on a generator it goes berserk, flashing odd bits of display all over the screen, segments and part segment light up at random and it won't go - due I suppose to the rough waveform of the generator's power supply); on the solar power it behaves better but the machine's power draw is too much for my system, so I replaced it with an Asko which has a more efficient motor design. It has been lent out to friends when their machines have packed up, now it sits in my shed waiting fore me to decide if it stays or goes.
It has cracked plastic on the side trim strips, the fascia has a small chip out of the lower right corner, just below the words "door release"; the top panel is from a more humble 800 rpm machine as its top was missing when I got it, and it is of little use to me as I can't run it due to the power limitations.
If you guys would like me to send you the fascia and circuit boards, and any other bits that aren't too heavy to post, I'd be happy to send them to a good home. Though that might be like sending coal to Newcastle, sending UK washer bits back to the UK. I'm not sure how scarce 9560W parts are there.

Mine is number 07 310754.
How early/late is that? Can you translate for me please?

Also - the W in 9560W - I thought that signified white trim ,but mine has brown trim. Can you clarify please?

Thanks

Chris.

 

[chestermikeuk]

Hotpoint MicroProfile

Looking good there, had forgotten how nice the display panel is, I got one for my Aunt Alice in 1987, Hotpoint & Hoover where fighting the "Spin Speed" wars for yrs although Hotpoint had the 1100rpm covered in 1970....

I dont remember the Hoover promoting being first for 1300, I do remember they produced a lot of training aids promoting the fact of their 1300 spin lasting a couple of mins and Hotpoint being 11secs, although Hotpoint promoted their machine as being stable on higher spins as most of the bulk of the water is removed with the lower spin and 11secs was that all that was needed to "Fling" the final amount of water out of the clothes on the "Profile Spin"

Now for the matching dryer!!!, Cheers, Mike

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Darren....

tonights installment will follow very shortly!

She is a beauty and a machine that I have always been fond of ever since they were introduced - a smart looking machine with an air of complexity about it.

Cheers
Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Jon.

Been playing with your new purchase yet???

Just like you, I never got to see a Microprofile in action, despite a neighbour two doors down from my parents having one, so the fact that the motor blew on mine and Rob's makes it all the more galling.

Hey ho.
Temporary glitch though - a new motor will be procured, hopefully over the next couple of months, and then we will see how she performs.

There will however be restrictions placed on the machine though, of which I will go into later in the thread.

Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi there Chris.

Cheers for telling of your experiences with your 9560.
Although nowehere near as serious as your nightmare repair job, I have to say that there are a great many sharp edges on Hotpoints products from the 1980's and I too had a fair number of metal cuts after my tinkerings with our 9560.

In particular - removal of the back cover reveals lovely, razor sharp metal edges - god, thinking about it again makes me flinch!

Do you know much of how your 9560 came to be in Australia?
People moving to Australia, from the UK, and taking all their kit with them?

You mentioning the old purple GEC wreck that donated the motor brought tears to my eyes. They were badged as Hotpoint Liberator in the the UK and are a kind of Holy Grail machine over here, with not one having been seen by UK collectors for many, many years.
Diverging a bit from the Microprofile, me and Rob rigged up a Hotpoint Liberator a few months ago by using a Liberator dryer as the base and attaching a facia and dials from a variable spin liberator. The result was very effective and although not the real thing, it was great to see a purple Hotpoint liberator again.
I have attached an iimage of the result below (we didnt have a white powder drawer facia, so used one from a later 18-series machine).....

 

[matchboxpaul]

Back to the Microprofile.....

Ahhhhhh, the delights of brittle plastic!

You mention cracked facias and sidestrips Chris - the bane of the 1980's Hotpoint. That plastic doesnt have much strength to it at all, which is why me and Rob are so pleased with ours, as it only has a small amount of missing side strip and has generally survived the years relatively unscathed.

As to your kind offer of parts - I will have words with Rob and we will let you know.
Its quite frustrating that we are geographically so far apart (could we be any further?) because, as you will find out by reading on in the thread, our Microrpofile needs one other major component!
If you were UK based, or me and Rob Australia based, we would snap up your offer without a moments hesitation.

Parts are getting a bit scarce and the major part that we require is, as far as I know, no longer available. Its not a show stopper but, as I hinted at in my reply to Jon above, the machine will have a restriction placed upon it as a result!

Once again, cheers for the kind offer Chris - me and Rob will discuss and get in touch via e-mail.
Best Regards
Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Mike.

Yep - eyes are now peeled for the 'Sensor Dryer De Luxe' - model 9340 (ideally) or 9344.

If anyone spies one - SHOUT FROM THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN at me.

Have never seen an image of the 9340 and have only ever seen one 9344 on ebay (shown below), so methinks that the serach will be a long one.

Paul