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Hi Chris.

Many many thanks for taking the time to scan and post your grandmothers 1502 manual.

Have never had the chance to see inside one of these early top loader instruction manuals before and its certainly a detailed publication.
Explains everything clearly and with excellent pictures and certainly very differnet from the style of manuals that Hotpoint later adopted and ran with, through the 70s and 80s.
Did that woman ever fathom out what to do with that outlet hose, spewing water everywhere? :-)

Both styles are classics in their own right.

Thanks again for posting and very useful to have a copy of a manual in this thread, explaining just how these classic machines worked.

Paul

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Hi Phil, Richard and Craig.

Glad that you are enjoying the thread - nearly time to move onto the next chapter and a chapter, for which you had to ask yourself before buying, 'would purple suit my kitchen?'.

Hi Chris in Germany
thanks for reading the thread. The 'load' switch was basically a full load/half load switch and controlled the water level in the machine.
The 'powder' switch was set one way or the other, depending on the type of powder you used. At the time that these machines were being introduced, biological washing powders for automatics were being introduced. If you bought one of these, then the switch would be set to 'bio', resulting in the machine giving a longer soak time in the cycle, allowing the enzymes to do their business.
Set the switch to 'others' and this would be cut short, should you be a user of non-biological powders.

Cheers
Paul
 

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