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Hi Matt.

I dont know of many people who used the powder push button and yet they still all got broken.
Much easier just to grab under the facia and pull - much simpler.

You will have to show your gran this thread and see if she recognises her old machine.

Paul
 
Forgot to mention Matt.

The Selectamatic!!!!

The A3064 used the lightshow from the A3062 Keymatic for its display, in the form of individual lights illuminating symbols, whereas the A3114 was a copy of the A3112 Keymatic and used a glowing timeline arrangement for its display.

The timeline light is on a hinged arm, which is dragged across the machine, as the programme progresses.
A pictures of the internals of Mathew's (keymatic3203) A3114 Selectamatic is below.

Behind the Selectamatic dial is essentially a permanently fitted, cylindrical keyplate, covered in cutouts.
As you turn the dial, your are mimicking turning a Keymatic keyplate in your hand and pushing it into the machine.
Once selected, in the same way you push the keyplate into a Keymatic, you push the dial inwards on the Selectamatic.
The machine then does the click click clickety click thing, as the reader identifies the notches and activates the programme.

The indicator arm is attached above the timer, towards the back of the machine....

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The timeline with the glowing green line faintly showing.

Gary has done a couple of videos of Mathew's machine and they are uploaded on youtube - link below...



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1985 & the 3rd Series of Electrons

Starting with the bargain basement but, as with the A3252, very quiet (induction fitted) A3332 Energy Control.

I have always thought that someone made a mistake when typing up the model number of this machine and that the mistake stuck - I am sure this machine was meant to be the A3342...

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You will see my thinking with the misnumbered A3332...

....when the next model up was the A3344 Energy Control de luxe...

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Top of the Range!

But why on earth it wasnt numbered A3352 is beyond me.

For some reason, Hoover numbered this one as the A3308 Computer Control 1100...

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Possibly Chris, but I will have to sort the photo library out a bit before doing so.

In time, I will do a Logic and Ecologic thread.
Paul
 
The Dryers.....

Basic model D6214 Electron Dryer.

No angled facia dryers were ever produced to match the 3rd Series Electron washers so, if we were being picky, we could say that the A3332/44/46/48/50 and 08 nver had true matching dryers to go with them.

They do look smart nonetheless....

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But before I sign off a couple of pics of machines myself and Rob own, from tonights series.

The ubiquitous A3350 Electron 1100 de luxe ...

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and finally restored the weekend just gone, after about two years of dormancy, is our A3308 Computer Control 1100...

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and here is the preserved D6214 Electron Dryer, which I purchased at the same time as the Computer Control 1100.
This dryer has since been passed on and is in the safe custodianship of Mathew (keymatic3203)...

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Back to earlier in the decade,

The keymatic A3112, in full Brushed stainless steel effect.

This isn't an exclusive, just one that over the years the lacquer has been warn off, but after initial disapointment at it not being mint, I think it would look quite contempory in a run of gloss white units and a stainless steel oven etc.

I personally would like to remove the british bulldog, as it is quite warn and fade, I think the machine would look better without it, what do you think?

Mathew

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