Hi Guys Im Back!!!!!!!

[hoover3060]

Darren I was using "big box powder" as it was called years ago.I suppose it was the fact I was washing towels/tea towels. Have not had much luck no matter what I washed but suppose it all depends on various factors. Ariel has always been my favourite powder really so I was disapointed with so many suds. I am loving the Bold though. The scent is lovely when you have something on the radiator as it fills the room. Im not one usually for putting things on radiators as i prefer the tumble dryer but its good for when things have been out and are "nearly dry" as the radiator finishes them off.wouldnt put them on if there was wallpaper up as my mum always did and of course you always get the wallpaper coming off the wall.

Mark

 

[newwave1]

Mark,
Was it biological? I always find its fairly sudsy with towels. I love ariel myself and i'm glad its alot better than it was.

Yea bold is really good too. The liquid is very vintage too.

So is the Logic the daily machine now?!

Darren

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi from a new member (and sorry to interrupt the flow of the thread). Just writing to say love your A3060 Mark. Great looking bit of kit - remember many of these from my childhood, along with the follow on A3110. Love the slow down and rev up of the spin. At the time that friends and relatives had A3060's and A3110's, my parents had a lowly (in comparison - although I loved it dearly and miss it terribly today) Hoover 'Matchbox' 3236h - the early red version (hence my user name). I remember opening it one day and flooding the kitchen as my mum had failed to turn the water taps off after using it and overnight it had filled up - then I came along and well.....made a bit of a mess.
Have to say that at the time I felt like I was missing out on things, what with no characterful rev-up spins and only a 770rpm spin versus 1100, but what wouldn't i give to for a matchbox today.
As someone who can't own a personal collection, can I just offer my congratulations to people like you guys who take the time and put in the effort to preserve those machines which, were you not there, would have gone the way of the matchboxes (i.e pretty much/if not totally extinct!).
Now - does anyone have an A3062 Keymatic or A3064 Selectamatic?
Cheers
Paul

 

[hoover3060]

It was Ariel Biological yes Darren.
Yes the Logic is the daily machine now as im selling the Whirlpool top loader. I couldnt wait to use the whirlpool when we moved in and a few weeks later it was plumbed in, in the garage. It didnt get over used as it took such a big load and i was also using the 3060 but unfortunately it ripped holes in clothes and pulled apart the stitching on some towels. I thought i would give it some more goes but the last straw was when it ripped a hole in a brand new jumper I had got and it was the first time I had washed it. I was not impressed! It seems the machine is best suited for hotel/ b&b laundry like sheets. Im sure people will have many views and im not intending to start a big thing with my comments.Im sure thousands of people are more than satisfied with there whirlpool top loaders. I just havn't had a good personal experience with mine. I was using the correct wash programmes and wash times and I didnt overload it (Of course I wouldnt overload it being a washer enthusiast its just not done!.lol). Its just one of those things I guess so unfortunately its now sitting in the garage unplumbed and looking sorry for itself until it goes to a new home.

Mark

 

[hoover3060]

Hi Paul and welcome to the club!

Thanks for your comments. Matchbox Hoover machines are fab.My partners mum had a 3236H and he remembers it well. Great looking machine and so simple to use. Nice to hear about you memories of the 3060 and 3110. Chestermike has a Keymatic model A3008. Below is a link to a video he did of it on spin.

Regards
Mark

 

[matchboxpaul]

Thanks for the welcome Mark.

Yep Mike's A3008 is another grand mnachine of the 1970's. Never actually saw a Keymatic in action and was surprised, when I first viewed the vid, that there was so much clicking involved. It will sound stupid, but I asumed it would be more, well, streamlined - more a case of starting straight away, without the machine having to find out what to do by checking all the notches on the key card. Thinking about it though, it is only doing what the human hand would have done on a 'normal' machine i.e manually setting the programme.

Again, maybe diverting the thread a bit, but does anyone have an image or information on the A3064 selectamatic which was sold alongside the A3060. This seems to be one of those machines which has totally vanished from the scene and for which internet seraches return a blank (indeed the only pic I have ever found of the A3062 Keymatic is the one I attached to my first posting).

Cheers
paul
p.s Mark - I sent you an e-mail a few days ago, the main crux of which can be found on a new thread I have started on the Imperial Forum.

 

[newwave1]

Hello and welcome paul!
Great to have another Brit and another Hoover fan alongside! What machine do you currently have?

Darren

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Darren.
It is actually the Zanussi that you highlighted to us all which finally convinced me to sign up. Very interesting looking machine, which I had never seen before - probably introduced when my interest went underground and stopped frequenting Currys and Comet just for the hell of it.

You should go for it (of course its easy for me to say as I dont have to find the space), but it would be nice to know that it has gone to someone who would apprceiate it.

At the moment my current abode possesses two machines, neither much to write home about (say that now but in 10 years time I will be reminicing):

Whirlpool Inspirations AWM328 1200rpm
&
Servis EasyLogic 1500.

Told you nothing special - bad luck on the 95 situation. My parents disposed of a very early 95452 last year - an excellent machine which did the family sterling service for 20 years with only brush replacement to worry about (probably three sets). Bearings seized up whilst in operation (been on their way out for ages), luckily not on a spin though otherwise it might have buried itself in the floor! A very much appreciated machine, bought in 1986 and which, because it was almond and blended in, was not replaced when the new kitchen was installed in 2005. Unfortunately the Hoover Matchbox 3022 dryer was pensioned off in full working order to make way for the old kitchen to be put in the garage (parents needed the space). I will always regret that that happened and so wish that I could have taken it on. Had I known of this site I would have offered it to a good home (would have pleased my parents as well as things are made to last in my family and this is a rare example of disposal in full working order).

Sorry - diverting the thread even more. Darren, I have created a thread in the Imperial forum on Hoovers - I need some help with a small project of mine - go and have a gander when you have a mo.
Cheers
paul

 

[ultramatic52]

Welcome back!!!!!

I´ve seen some of your videos and they are really good!!!

 

[chestermikeuk]

Hoover 1100..

Hi Mark

Glad to have you back and that the move went well, enjoyed the vids, its interesting finding out the differences in programming with all the different machines & models, the 3060 was a great seller for Hoover , the first with the 1100rpm spin, but was so nearly a disaster because of the splitting drums & bearings, like most manufacturers they worked the servicing issues out "In The Field" , just been reading a Which Report which said they where offering customers a total bearing & tub replacement on all 2 year plus machines for a small nominal fee, I suspect (and hope)our machines have had the retrofit, otherwise better start searching for parts now!!!

The Lux Insight looks great, do you have the cooker to match??

Cheers, Mike

 

[hoover3060]

Hey Mike!

Hope you are keeping well.
I remember hearing about the problems with the bearings on the 3060 when they first came out.Weren't they using 800 bearings instead of new ones to cope with the 1100 spin?

We didn't get the matching cooker for the insight dishwasher as the house is a new build and so came with built in oven/hob and extractor. The oven and hob are Zanussi stainless steel ones. A real bugger to clean! I like mine white.

Regards
Mark

 

[robm]

Mark was this yours

Hi Mark

I got this pic from ebay and it came from Scotland. I wasn't yours by any chance? I just love these machines.

I have also added this pic on matchboxpaul's Imperial thread.

 

[lavamat_jon]

A3110!

quick post as I'm about to go out... That's my first washer!

This thread is my whole childhood!

Jon

 

[hotpointwf220]

That's my nanna's washer

 

[newwave1]

WOW! awesome to know these beautys are still alive and around LONG LIVE 100% Hoover!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay i'm calm.

Darren

 

[lavamat_jon]

OMG!

Your nana has my washer!!!!

 

[hoover3060]

Jon

That wasn't my machine no. Mine was long gone when that one came up on eBay. I was tempted by it as it close by but I have my A3060 and its 2 simular so would rather keep the space for another machine yet to be found!..lol

Mark

 

[hotpointwf220]

lol don't think so Lavamat Jon She had this when it was spanking new and it still hasn't put a foot wrong.
Has it had an repairman in it's life since she baught it? mmmmmmmmmmmm NO, she is still going strong but I always skip it's 500 burst before the 800 as it zooms to 1100 very quickly.

 

[matchboxpaul]

Really great to know that there is a good old A3110 still going - don't ever let it get pensioned off !

Now does anyone have any piccies of these to complete the early 80's set?

Sorry to post the attached image again - but very apt for this thread also

 

[sadose]

Paul...

Just thought of something, that range in tha pic you've just posted overlaps when Hoover relaunched the next line of machines methinks. I have vague memories of a Hoover Electron 800 "Dual Spin" which was identical to the Electronic 800 with an all back panel. One of my all time faves. Presumably before the Energy Control machines came out!