Hoover washer in PA

[phamq]

I'd like to learn how to use it. Wonder if it can connect to both hot & cold water?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-1970s-H...9QQcmdZViewItemQQssPageNameZRSS:B:SRCH:US:101

 

[ronhic]

This is about as manual as you can get without actually washing clothes by hand.

There are no connections for hoses on these machines. You effectively connect a hose to the tap and hang it into the tub. Fill the tub with hot/cold water to your prefered level and temperature, add your powder and clothes and then set the timer. The timer will stop the impeller only. You then lift the clothes into the spinner and spin them....

Continue until you have finished your washing part....now drain the tub and fill with fresh water...rinse, spin as before and repeat...

May be OK for a holiday house where you may only use it to wash socks, undies, swimmers etc....but would you really want to do the weekly wash like this when automatics are soooo cheap?

 

[autowasherfreak]

I use one for a year and a half as my only washer when I lived in a very small apartment. There was a full sized commercial washer and dryer in the basement for 30+ apartments. I loved mine until the pump when out.

Jim

 

[vzlouis]

rinsing

I have had close to a dozen of these machines. Hoovermatics were very popular here in South Africa. The machine MUST be filled to the line ABOVE the pulsator. Rinsing should take place in the spinner. Hoovermatic de luxe had a special feature that enabled "automatic" spinner rinsing: all one had to do was wash then transfer to spinner for completion and voila! although I have only seen one lady employ this method of rinsing. South African woman would push there Hoover to the bathroom and rinse everything in the bath tub. I also did it this way, but I prefer the original Hoovermatic rinse...the way it was meant to be especially now that i understand it better. 123 and a weeks wash is on the line.

 

[launderess]

Semi-Automatic vs Automatic Washing Machines

One does not use a twin tub or even a wringer for "set it and go" quick laundry, but rather for banging though quite allot of wash in very little time, and if done properly with less water than an automatic.

Twin tub washing is nothing more than a very fancy version of wringer washing, with the spinner taking place of the mangle.

The idea is to keep a sucession of wash going from tub to spinner to the lines, with perhaps one or two changes of water.

Unimac (a division of Alliance Laundry Systems), sells a modern commercial twin tub that is a bug hit with car washes, small hotels, restaurants, and other places that generate lots of laundry (mostly small items, but can be up to say a decent sized tablecloth or men's dress shirt), that needs to be done quickly.

 

[paulg]

Those spinners work well

As a young kid, many years ago, I rolled one of those home after I found it abandoned under a bridge. I had to drag it over train tracks and roll it about three blocks home. I "replaced" the missing impeller belt with one of my mom's old nylon stockings.
It worked for years cleaning rags in the garage. The spinner was amazing as the rags were surprising dry after a spin.
I later sold it at a garage sale with the nylons still running the impeller.

 

[goatfarmer]

My wife used one in her first apartment, that we picked up in a trade in pile. It did a good job, sure beat going to the laundramat. We also had the matching 110V dryer.