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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
 
thanks Mike

Hi Mike , yeah my boot was turqoise and had turned to a crispy goo! The machine has not been tried therefore with water , but i ran it on the spin cycle. It tumbles normally the when the motor reverses and tries to spin the spin pulley on the back of the drum slips and shrieks so loudly i switch it off after a second or two ( in case it harms itself) I have removed both pulleys and cleaned the small rollers and springs (they are now oil and grease free, not sure if they should be but Darren from Licoln said this was best) i think the rollers perhaps have worn down and you said last time they need small shims to lift it closer to the pulley. I have not done anymore to it. I have 2 or 3 things to finish off he he. Its all back together sitting under neath bubble wrap keeping my Mams ( nearly vintage) 1989 Hotpoint 9544 company (its her only machine and still works the same)
You day looked fab, great to see the Hoover dish washer and keymatic whirling away fine.

Thanks again

Richard
 
Fantastic!

I really think it's great to see how everyone's collections are going, and seeing the machines run, also great to see the gatherings expanding guest wise too!

Lovely to see the Bendix, my grandma had an earlier, single dial version, that huge door certainly gives them a presence! And the Auto-Jet is fantastic, I'd expected the racks to spin at the same rate as a modern spray arm, but I suppose it wouldn't do to have madam's Wedgwood catapulted round the cabinet!

Mike, what a beautiful award! I'm sure you must have been extremely moved by Our Lady of the Boiling Pulsator, if ones makes a sacrifice to her will she permit tangle-free washing?

Paul/Matt, great to see the 3234H all smartened up, still in awe of that one! And the Topline too - as an aside, I was reading over the service information, and that mystery button does indeed appear to be rinse/hold.

And it's a real thrill to see a live and pulsating Keymatic! Matt, was this a recent find? Good to see a 3226 over here. The turnover is incredibly impressive, very much like the other Hoover pulsator machines. So nice to see such a fab bit of engineering work so well! I wonder how much it would cost to have a batch of boots casted, I know that having small batches of rubber components made up is common among owners of more obscure old cars. Certainly seems to be the only thing holding several slope fronters back!
 
On behalf of Mike

It was the Bendix that was on ebay week before last ending on the weekend while we were all there. Mike went over the very next day to collect it, hardly surprising really, especially as it was located in an area familiar to (matchbox)Paul so he had a ready navigator. We were all so excited I think we would have gone over with a wheel barrow to collect it LOLOLOL. Unfortunatly I did not take any footage of it
Al
 
Great to see all the further pictures uploaded! Was especially nice to see the Autojet, I missed that unfortunately but great to see the film so thanks Al.

I was very impressed with the Keymatic - as with everybody else I was fascinated by it and has definitely got to be one of the best wash actions I have seen on any washer - really does move the laundry well and you can see why it only needed 4 minutes of wash time.

The Bendix was indeed a source of major excitement over the weekend - I have a couple of videos of it which I shall upload to youtube when I have a chance in the next couple of days :-).

All the best,

Jon

Edit - videos being uploaded onto Youtube as I speak.
 

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