Hi Everyone

[lordylord]

Hi!

I'm John from Northumberland. Just wanted to say hi to everyone. I'm 26 live and work in newcastle and i've been interested in washing machines and dryers since i was about 12...

I'll ad some pics of the machines we had when i was growing up

 

[lordylord]

Not my pic but i was only 11 when my parents got rid of this machine.

 

[lordylord]

We got AEG Oko_Lavamat 6100 in 1996 with a matching dryer.

 

[lordylord]

Again not my pic but ours was like this

 

[lordylord]

The First AEG lasted until 2004 then my parents bought an AEG 72640. The lavatherm dryer lasted another couple of years. Again not my pic :-/

 

[lordylord]

The Aeg Dryer packed up in 2006 and we bought a Creda Simplicity Dryer. Cant remember the model number but it was the reverse model, it was rubbish so we only kept it about a year.

 

[lordylord]

Shoud have added this at the start but forgot. We had the matching dryer to the Hotpoint 9534. Hotpoint reversomatic dryer plus. No idea of the model number.

 

[lordylord]

The creda dryer was sold and we bought a Zanussi which i dont have photos of...

 

[lordylord]

The AEG 72640 Washer lasted until 2010.. Only 6 years and the pcb went apparently. Now my mum has a Siemens. She only bought it because it had a 5 year guarantee.

 

[lordylord]

They don't make a basic dryer but she got this one ex display from fenwicks. A bargain at £290!! With a 5 year guarantee.

 

[lordylord]

I moved out and bought myself a re-furbished Miele W504 off ebay for £120!! I've just sold it on as i needed some spare cash. I've bought an old AEG 6100 like the one we had when i was a kid. Picking it up next week.

 

[dyson2drums]

Hi John

Welcome to automaticwasher

I grew up with a hotpoint 9534, was an amazing machine. Loved the spin ramp on the final spin from distribution to 1000rpm.

Siemens, nice machines your mother has there

 

[paulc]

Hi John

Welcome to the group. Between you and your parents you have had some lovely machines. Look forward to the pic's of your "new" AEG.

PaulC

 

[lordylord]

Hi Guys.

I remember the Hotpoint 9534 vaguely as it only lasted till 1996 (i was 11). My parents bought it around 1987, my grandparents had a New Generation from around 1984/5 which had a 1000 spin and a chrome door, i cant remember the model number. This is the machine i remember the most growing up, she had it until 1998 when it was replaced with a Hotpoint Aquarius WM63 which i hated hahaha. I used to sit next to her in her utility room watching the washing then help her peg it out in the summer months.

I loved the AEG 6200 that my mum had. I wish i'd never let her get rid of it. Hence i'm looking forward to getting the "new" one hahaha.

The Siemens is a good basic washer. It cleans well but its very unexciting and conservative and it has the loudest end of cycle signal you've ever heard!

 

[lordylord]

This is the one my grandma had. A hotpoint 95452 she had the same dryer as my mum though.

 

[foraloysius]

Welcome home!

 

[hotpointfan]

Hello!

Welcome! Such a wonderful collection of machines you have had the privellege of growing up with!

We had a Hotpoint 95620 whick broke when I was 2/3. I had a Casdon Hotpoint toy and used to play with that and watch the machine at the same time!

We own a Creda T510VW which is the uni - directional version of the machine you say was ruubish.

Also, I have a Hotpoint Aquarius WM62 at my caravan like your grandparents had!

Thanks and enjoy the club

Jacob

P.S: Are you on YouTube?

 

[chestermikeuk]

Welcome John

The pic thread was great, so easy to see your washer timeline, you`ll have lots of pics, posts & vids to catch up on here and I`m sure it will be good to hear more of your stories...

Any family work at the big detergent company up there??

Cheers, Mike

 

[lordylord]

No P&G workers in my family unfortunately... :-( i have tenants in a rental property that work for P&G and omg their house is amazing. Its just full of P&G products. Never short of washing detergent... Hopefully when the AEG is plumbed in i'll be able to do some videos and get some pictures. I'll get pics of my parents Siemens duo too. I haven't got a youtube channel at the moment. Maybe i should open one.

 

[lordylord]

Dryer

Forgot to add to the picture thread. My tumble dryer which is a white knight 44AW its a good basic dryer!

 

[lordylord]

Also found the dryer that we had after the creda. This was a great dryer! I sold it to a collegue when my Mum bought the siemens. Its a Zanussi TD4212..

 

[lordylord]

Another Machine in the Family

My other grandparents had a Bosch WFB cant remember the exact model number. I've found a pic though I was told by a repairman that these machines weren't a "proper" bosch as they used a Zanussi motor. Does anyone know if this is correct? When i start thinking back i can remember lots of machines that were in the family or that friends had when i was growing up.

 

[superelectronic]

Bosch WFB series

I think we've managed to establish from previous discussions that the WFB machines from Bosch were rebadged from the Spanish manufacturer Balay. I rather liked mine - quite a solid design apart from the crunching noise many seemed to develop when tumbling. The basic programme was very sensible in my opinion and nicely flexible too.  

 

They came at the tail end of the old-school European style mechanical programmer machines: things like timed stepped rinse fills and a physical link from timer dial to dispenser to divert the cold water.  

 

They certainly weren't quiet in the style of any Zanussi of a similar age but that's not to say they didn't share motors; the WFBs were more of a metal contstruction so perhaps didn't contain vibrations as well. Who can say? Well, not me anyway...  

 

I'm pretty sure Bosch have a long tradition of rebadging other manufacturers' wares (much like all the brands); they still seem to be at it today with the low-priced machines seen in the likes of Comet - the ones that look nothing like the main range.  

 

Oh...and welcome along by the way!  

 

Alex

 

[lordylord]

Thanks for clearing that up

By crunching noise do you mean the weird kind of screeching noise that they make when the drum starts turning in the first heating phase of the wash. My grandmas did this when the motor hadn't been used for a few days?

 

[lordylord]

Balay

We have a Balay washing machine in Spain. I suppose its the same as my Mums Siemens under the skin?

 

[solsburian]

Hello!

I think there will be a lot of similar continents between your Mum's Siemens and the Balay machines. Siemens machines do tend to have slightly better quality components in them though.

The low end Bosch machines you sometimes see in B&Q are also made by Balay and appear to be slightly lower quality and now have sealed tubs.

 

[superelectronic]

Screeching?

No, more of a crunching - don't remember a screech. I had an almost new WFB 1602 (I think) as a student that was fine til the day I started to wash a single feather duvet in it - the crunching set in about then; I aborted the wash and took the duvet to the launderette down the road!

 

My sister later ended up with a WFB2005 from a rental firm; it had the same complaint so it must have been a design flaw. I gather it may have been related to the belt and that it's not uncommon for belts to make that noise. The Proline washer I was using til about 2 years ago did the same thing when it started up.

 

The WFB 2005 was carried off by a tub leak in the end as far as I know; my sister called me over to investigate the strange white build-up under the washer area. Couldn't find the leak but you could hear it at high water level!

 

Thinking about those machines again, they really should have been fitted with induction motors - the programming was very much geared up to an induction motor with no distribution speed, no slow wool tumble and just full/half speed spins. Certainly a very European design in origin - older Bosch perhaps, even it not made by them.

 

[aquacycle]

Welcome John . Very nice machines you've had there. My sister had the 9534 and matching dryer for a good few years - she stole them out of her uni house after the landlord screwed her over lol.

I grew up with mostly Zanussi machines but have very fond memories of both Hotpoint and AEG washers. Looking forward to seeing the pics of your new AEG .

All the best,
Chris

 

[paulc]

I had a WFB2005, possibly one of the worst machines I have ever owned.Don't get me wrong, it was a really solid machine and did not feel badly made but mine obviously was built on a friday at 4pm! Door lock failure after two weeks, new PCB after two months and new motor fitted after 6 months. I had no end of problems with Comet over this machine, took three weeks for the motor to arrive from where ever in Europe it had to be ordered from, I argued the machine, by this point, was past economic repair but Comet refused to replace it.

Soon after, me and my partner at the time split and he inherited the machine , he managed to get another year out of it before he had to get a new machine.

 

[lordylord]

My Aunty had a WFB 2005 at the same time as my mum had the AEG 6200. I always preffered our AEG. Friends of mine had a WFB 2004 in a rental property. They only moved out a couple of months ago and it was still going strong so i guess some of them were really made to last. I used it on a few occasions when i house sitted for them and was always amazed at how loud it was. Very solid though.. There was a slight problem with the programmer. The dial didn't catch up with the programmer so when you do another cycle the dial moved around 360 freely. Small fault on a machine thats probably around 17 years old.