IGNIS: The pix #2...and the movie!!!

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Here you are how my laundry appears through the door before going in...

 

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And in front wall

On left the "summer" shower box, then at the right the landry sink (the top cover is wood and the other side can be used as a washboard!)
And then...Here SHE is! After have fixed the leak... I decided to move her from the garage to here...the climate is worth there :-D

 

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How the leak stops!

I used SILICONE, the traditional transparent one...layer-on-layer...being patient and "volenteroso!"

Before...

 

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After

 

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How I did it...

Silicone was put either to fix the little holes in that area of the outer tub and either around the seal to make them strong hold the water!

Here you are the silicone literaly "covering" the hole under the hinge of the draining pump blocking system!

 

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And for your eyes...))

The video of the sliding lid!

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Now the motor capacitor...

GRR! If I only were stronger... It'll be very difficult for me to disasselby the box where the two capacitors are...but in Naples here people say (translated in english)

The mouse say to the nut...let me do and I'll open you!

 

[mielabor]

Thank you for the pictures and the video. I will be very happy when you can make another video of those intriguing folding drum doors.

 

[aldspinboy]

Very nice machine! I know the excitment when you find the washer you want i felt it from your last pictueres you posted. Great job on restoring.Diomede does it heat water and how hot & how fast does it spins? Darren k

 

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Thanks!

Darren...I don't know a lot about the temperature! The machine cen be hooked up with hot-cold fill (there are two separate inlet valves) or with a Y with cold fill only.
In the first case the machine will work (I suppose, cause I've not checked it yet!) as any hot-cold fill washing machine...so HOT(hot only by the water heater temp settings), COLD (tap cold, water line temp), WARM (both inlet valves are opend)

In second case... well the machine is provided with two onboard heating element (1300W each) and a thermostate with 5 contact so...one will be the neutral and the other will be for 4 temperature setting...but honestly I don't know :-?

Under the cabinet lid you find something about the 8 cycles available but the descriptions say only about the items you can wash with each cycle (bedlinenes, bathlinens, shirts, pants, ecc)...no information about temeprature and wash or spin speed.

The motor nominal speed is 500rpm...but I think it reaches 600 rpm...

BYE!
Diomede

 

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Folding...

No Theo...the lid doesn't fold...it SLIDES inside...between the outertub and the perforated drum

 

[mielabor]

I mean the hinged door in the drum itself. Maybe it is called a lid? In Dutch I would call it a door when it is hinged and a lid when it can be removed. I've seen both in drums of washing machines but never doors with more than two parts.

 

[dj-gabriele]

Yeahhh! E vai!
I'm more than happy that the restoration is going well!
I believe that your machine is capable of 95°C washing, it's still common to see such a feature also on modern ones, spinning at 600 rpm? Isn't it too much for a machine that has 40 years? Maybe 400 is more realistic, isn't it?

 

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So....yes the drum lids fold!

Yes Theo...sorry, my mistake! If you were referring to the drum lids they indeed fold...it's the most unusual way I found to close a TLHA WM drum...
Unfortunately the washing machine came without any system to block them closed...but it's not a problem as the drum rotates either closed than opend (differently from modern system where the drum is blocked when drum lids are open outside!)

 

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500rpm...600rpm..400rpm

Onestamente non saprei...

Gabri, the motor label says nothing....I bypassed the sliding lidswitch and looking...only looking at it spinning it seemed to me like my Sangiorgio...

I remember this WM was high rated at its time though either for his power in spinning...

 

[foraloysius]

Thanks Diomede for the pictures. I agree with Theo that those folding drum doors are very intrigueing. The video of the outer drum lid is great. Hopefully one day we will see a video of this machine working. Good luck with the restoration!

 

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Lidswitch bypassing...

This is I assume the only NECESSARY bypassing in the story of washing machine...and that's why:
The edge where the sliding door reach closing hold with a "clack" along the time bacame less tight so that during the spinning the sliding door literaly slide opening the tub with the conseguent stop of spinning...

My aunt owned this type of WM from 1972 to 1992 and during the last years of using it I remember she put a clothes-pin to in the handle of the lid to let it stay closed...

When I get the first this machine I found the lidswitch already bypassed, but I honestly I undesrtand why only after have rememberd of my aunt system....

The solution will be to fix the clack on left edge of closing...so the lid doesn't slide and stay closed!