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Well can anyone put a date on when it was made. Hope you enjoyed the pics. The last pic of the night, after the final 1000rpm spin.

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It's a fantastic & quiet washer. First of all it's great to be able to spin just one item without the time consuming fussy balancing control it just gets on with it 500,800 then 1000rpm all done in 5 minutes. The suspension on this machine is excellent it just stays in place even with a severe unbalanced load. 5 Full rinses with 500rpm spins on the cotton cycles at high or low water levels, low level is more than adequate to rinse perfectly. Just wish i had a instruction book for it because with all the option buttons on it i'm not quite sure which ones are compatible with certain programmes. Half load & the spin reduction buttons work on all the wash programmes but i'm not sure about the other ones. They is also no wash guide on the control panel i have worked out the cotton ones NO-1 pre wash & 95deg. NO-2 95deg . NO-3 60deg. NO-4 40deg. NO-5 cold wash. NO-6 rinses. N0-7 fab cond & 1000rpm final spin. Been thinking about the age of it & i keep coming up with 1990.

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That is gorgeous I am extremely jealous and it is definately older than 1990!

My friend had a slightly older model with door release it with variable temp and spin dials! I love old brown facia machines!

Thanks for posting!

Darren
 
Oh wow!

I would definately say late eighties, there is a video dated from 1989 with a slightly less top of line model reccomending Ariel.

Please can you put your machines in your profile?

Thanks

Jacob
 
Lovely!

I grew up with the more basic model, with programme and temp dial, 3 buttons and an 800rpm spin.

That one was bought in the summer of '88, so this will be late 80s.

Hope you enjoy it!

Matt
 
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I picked it up yesterday a customer came into our shop wanting to buy a new tumble dryer because her old Bendix compact had set on fire. She then decided on buying a Hoover washer/dryer. They is nothing what so ever wrong with it. It's great having a hot & cold feed washer back & the quiet sound of the pump makes me realise how noisy pumps are nowadays.

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very nice find!
A friend of mine's grandparents have one of these. It's a nice, reliable machine but it does spend more time with the clothes just sitting around in water rather than actually tumbling. Still, a darn sight better than anything Indesit are churning out these days!
 
Lovely!

Love this machine. My Parents had the later version Omega from 1995, which had pretty much the same options. Think the only difference was Half Load was replaced by Eco Sence, which essentially halved the water intake during the rinse cycle so was effectively the same as Half Load.

It had the same five indicator lights too. Plenty to watch!

On our machine, Rapid Wash turned the heater off on the Synthetics & Wool 40c cycles - on your machine i think these would be 11 & 15. On ours they were 10 (Delicates) & 14 (Wool). Stain Removal worked on at least the Cottons 90c & 60c cycle (programs 2 & 3) & it cut-out the hot water filling so that the water heated gradually from cold, therefore activating the enzymes in the detergent more gradually, thus removing stains better. If you press it you should notice the HOT FILLING light go out during filling for programs 2 & 3, possibly other cycles too.

Can't remember what Hand Wash did but i think it was effective on the Wool cycle (Program 15). If the machine does what ours did, it will hold for a couple of minutes after the Conditioner Rinse on the Synthetics & Wool cycles, then move on automatically to spin. Pressing Anti-Crease should make the machine hold permanently & to get it to spin you'd need to de-select Anti-Crease, at which point the timer would start clicking & after a couple of minutes the spin would start. I can't remember about Energy Saver unfortunately, but i think it was effective only on the Cottons cycles.

Ours was a good machine, except the motor used to arc all the time. Initially we called the engineer to which he said 'it'll be fine but just don't put it on carpet', which wasn't quite the response we expected, but it never seemed to do any harm on our vinyl kitchen floor. We had the machine 5 years & then my Mums work had it a further 3 years before the concrete block broke & i think the bearings started going too. My Gran has an early 90's Prestige Line 1000 (at that point it was either Prestige Line OR Omega, rather than both names combined) which is still working today, some 20 years after she bought it :-)

Because my Gran's newer design machine is very early 90s, yours must be about 1988/1989 as the other guys have said. Can't believe the customer swapped it for a Hoover - i know you don't mind them but you'll probably be able to sell the Indesit back to her in 18 months. I'd have replaced the dryer with a White Knight/Zanussi & left the Indesit washer well alone. Oh well!

Liam
 
Thanks Liam for the information on the option buttons. I used the energy save last night & it reduces the temperature down on the boil wash to 60deg. I'm gonna try it now on the cottons 60 wash to see if it reduces it down to 40 but i think it could just possibly work on the boil wash, i will let you know.
 
On our 1993 omega the hand wash button reduces the woollens cycle to 25 degrees and gives a gentler wash action. I'm guessing it was pretty much the same.

We had the ecosense button as well. It would reduce water intake on most cycles. It would top up 10 times or so for the initial fill so I would wait for the machine to fill to its traditional level then press the ecosense button. It would save a bit of time anyway!

David.
 
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Found out that the energy save button reduces the temperature by 10deg on all the wash programmes. Very handy for the number 3 Fast coloured programme down to 50deg.
 
Hand wash button

This button is very strange for a hand wash feature. What it does is that on all the wash programmes apart from the 95 & 60 deg which only fill with hot water, it activates both the hot & cold water solenoid valves so you get a warm wash without the heating element coming on & it fills with a mixture of hot & cold water when rinsing. I've never come across that on a uk machine.
 
Thermal Shock....

Maybe the warm rinses with 'Hand Wash' is to prevent thermal shock to the delicate items likely to be washed with Hand Wash selected?

I guess if you were washing by hand then many people rinse using warm water too, so it kind of makes sence.

Liam
 
Yes that's just what i thought Liam, but it also does this when selected on the cotton cycles, just imagine the cost when it's filling & doing 5 high level rinses in warm water. it just doesn't make sense, & i still dont understand the rapid wash button. This machine is exciting & i love a challenge so it's my day off work tomorrow so i will try & get my head around the rapid wash button.
 
Just been viewing the AEG03 New Zanussi thread & Liam i agree with you the one thing i hate is a static fill machine & luckily this machine fills & tumbles at the same time & it really makes a difference.
 
Omega 1000 circa 1989.

Fascinating! I thought I was the only one with one of these washers. I bought mine along with the matching dryer in June 1989 from a local store called Rumbellows (remember them anyone?)I also still have the original instruction manual, albeit a tad used and one or two pages have stuck together due to getting damp. I can probably scan/photograph it and E-mail if you require any more info/specs etc.
I came across your thread whilst trying to find spares for mine (Bottom plastic cover)been meaning to sort it but never really bothered me until recently updating my kitchen. I've also considered replacing it with a new one but only to realise that the new machine would need to be just as reliable. So I'm looking at the likes of Siemens/Miele etc. So for now it stays until it breaks down completely. And importantly was actually made in the Italian factory, not in the far East like today's machines.
Let me know if you want a copy of the manual.

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