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A2155 New Wave Plus 5 1500

This was the machines unveiling, having been acquired off ebay a few months back and under wraps till now...

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I used Mikes do as an opportunity to unveil the 3236H, now that pretty much all the stuff has been sorted out with it.

Was also nice to be able to thank 4 people directly involved in its preservation : namely Seamus, Matt, Gary and Mathew. Cheers guys....

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Thank you very much for the pictures, especially of the new wave - matchboxpaul

wow, seems like it is a really good machine and in mint condition.

If you do have any vids if the newwave, please can you post them on youtube.

Love the pics

Thanks
 
Plumbed in and works OK, but will blow the motor out at the next opportunity, as years of dust and rubbish has accumulated in there...

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Forgot to add the caption info...

See piccy above.

Richard , Gary and Jon observe the 3236H, whilst Matt and Seamus put a load or two through the T5054 Hoovermatic de luxe.
 
One of my favourite pics of the weekend.

...
1980s = A3E12
1970s = 3236H
&
1990s = A2155

Hi Dyson2drums....only have a vid of the end of the spin of the new wave and will post to youtube soon.

Thanks Mike and everyone who attended, for making the weekend such fun.

Highest regards to you all.
Paul

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hotpoint 95622

Fantastic, hope all had lots of fun.

I had a Hoover 4805 Auto-Jet dishwasher for many years, the dreaded rust finished it off, there was some much patching up you could not tell what was the original sump or liquid metal filler. It used to literally boil wash the dishes, great clouds of steam come out of the air vent in the front.

Lee
 
OOVAH Ave Dun IT AGEN

Well chaps here is another cobbled together vidoe of the 3226 doing some washing showing the excellent wash action

Hope you like it

 
Wash In

Gary - Yes the Lady of the Pulsator will have pride of place dont worry!!!...LOL

PaulC - yes, do give us a ring when you are next down & bring the laundry!!!

Robbie, send me your email as I sent one to your AW profile and I know John from Brum did last time, not that far away on the train etc.

Jon glad you enjoyed yourself!! everytime I looked around you where glued to the machines, and it was great you brought your laundry to do as well!!! wont mention the sudzlock...well go on then!!! it wasnt your fault at all, that Tesco Handwash & twinny is the worst of any i`ve tried for sudzing!!! get yourself a twinny and use automatic powder!!

Bertrum, the cabinet is superb, the console will take some detailed work, its the usual Hoover bronze bezel syndrome, it easily rubs off!!!Its a fab machine though, have you worked on one?? will do a seperate thread on the restore...

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Wash-In

Thanks guys for all the messages, always great to meet up and see new faces as well!!! the weekends go so quickly with all the fun, food & repairs!!! heres to the next time!!!

MickeyD, get that ticket now, you`d love all the comeraderie, twinnys & high tea!!! wait till you see what happened with the dishwasher!!!

Ross, good to hear from you, that keymatic is similar to the westy, plenty of action and sudz drama!!!and of course it can take all types of powders!!! even the high sudz foca!!!

Greg, fab machine, videos on their way, the pulsator spin sslightly slower than the twintubs but just enough to almost roll the clothes around the drum from front to back , almost like a figure of 8 motion...and none of this balancing, straight into spin!!!

Heres The Fill Line!!

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hotpoint 95622

The video of 3226 is great; I have always wanted to see how this machine worked.
Nice to see the spin and just how far the tub lowers when full of wet laundry; you can see it rising as the spin slows down.

Thanks.

Lee
 
"Full Spray Ahead"

Mike, that's a prize winner. Just look at that, a beautiful, live, pulsating sea creature. How we begged to know how that pulsator worked and what it could do.
And now we know. THANK YOU! And I'd love to come over. After the impending global meltdown, the Concord will be back with fast cheap flights to England ;-> I'll be there.
 
Wow

It looks like you all had a great weekend and luckily good weather too! I love the Keymatic and i would so love to get mine up and running (needs a door boot (dont they all!) and a clutch adjustment to allow it to spin) it sound so quiet when washing. The video almost makes its sound like its gently munching the clothes as they are being loaded! I like the gentle swaying too.
Glad the bendix found a good home, my neighbour had one and it died a death like many of that design where the outer drum rusted from the inside out , gently leaking un noticed for years and eventually rotted its own chasis and welded itself to the carpet. I know its owner was up set to see how we struggled to get it out and how it litterally fell to bits ( its was her first auto and she chose Bendix from her memories of using Bendix's at laundro mats in the 50's)

Mike i noticed you talked of "spa of Neil and Bob" , do you/they restore machines as i'm tempted to get some work done on my keymatic if its possible!

Keep up the good work!!

Richard
 
Hoover AutoJet

Lee, this dishwasher is in very good condition and after checking hoses for leaks & adjusting a hinge we plugged it in and managed to use if open just to see how it operated!! it certainly shoots jets of water all over the place!!!

Bjorn, yes your family dishwasher is in safe hands and working fine, am just putting together a mini vid, its certainly powerful, there are some photos of it working in the garden, (cue Paul!!) was very surprised that there was no leaks from the hoses etc...thats Hoover for you...Who Better..!!!
 
Keymatics

Hi Richard, we are having a splurge on the Keymatics at the moment, the amount of pipes inside them really has to be seen to be believed!!! some of the boots have lasted well, others particularly the turquoise ones just turn to mush, Oh to have some made!!

The "Spar of Neil" is related to Neil from Brum who sprays cars & has done a stellar job on the Hoover 3301 twinny, Morphy Richards spinner & Hotpoint Countess washer, we usually do all we can to mechanically restore them and then have them sprayed!! the great thing about the slope front keymatics is that the cabinet can be taken off for painting etc..Neil matches all the paint accordingly and charges us paint costs & labour etc....

I`ll have a conflab with the teccies, to see if we can pinpoint the problem with spin clutch etc......are the belts in place & turning??
 
Videos

Evening Al, great vids there, thanks for taking the time, its painstaking but worth it!!! Did you know anyone who owned a slope front??

2 classic machines brought back to life, a labour of love for all but some much fun when everyone around is enthusiastic as well....

Pity Hoover didnt do the matching dryer like the Westys!!!

Cheers, Mike
 
Thanks guys so much for sharing!!! WOO HOO!! I love the photo of y'all watching the Bendix Autowash De-Luxe 4147B--such a universl expression and stance for each of you. Any number of each of us could have been stand-ins and we'd all pretty much have the same universal look, expressions, ... Pretty much the same for watching the Hoover 3236??? Good to see such a nice contengent assembled for the festivities. What a handsome lot you all are too, YEE HAW!!!! But no pics of the washihng up in the kitchen after the food festivities, even if it was a modern dishwasher. And I didn't even get invited to come and take care of all those dishess and pots and pans and such in the dishwaher. :-( although if Lavamat Jon was involved, he'd be BobLoading, doing me proud!!!
 
My pleasure Mike

It was a learning process, thats for sure LOLOLOL

Sadly never knew of anyone owning a slant front keymatic - I probably would never have been out of their house LOLOL But I believe it is as iconic of the 1960s, at least in the UK, as the Connie 862 onwards was.

I am just so grateful to you Mike for all the effort you put into saving these old machines, for your encouragement of others to do the same, and for your generous hospitality in allowing all of us to come together to share them

Al
 
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