You can see, well you can see the inside is not
Quite clean. Will sort that out presently soon as some other issues are attended. Am going to give the boot and upper areas a good scrub with disinfectant cleaner, then run a rinse only cycle. This followed by a boil wash with vinegar should clean up any other muck and deal with a rather strong pong coming from tub.
Am guessing the whiff was caused by machine being unused and shut up (tsk, tsk, tsk), but that is small beer. Will also have to take out lint filter to see what there is down below.
Have long ago made a vow *NOT* to rush out and buy new things each time something arrives. Thus spent a good part of yesterday hunting down long ago stashed spare hoses, clamps, and so forth. European washing machines have different hose fittings (found that out when the Miele arrived many years ago now), but recalled having a job lot sent from Europe for the AEG OKO-Lavamat. Question was where did one put the things?
Other issue is that the AEG Electrolux uses that blasted AquaStop type fill hose. That will have to go eventually. But was glad previous owners sent it along so just needed to fit an extension hose with proper faucet coupling, so that's me sorted.
All and all an interesting bit of kit from Electrolux.
You can see how the lid does not close fully. One supposes that is to allow machine to air out between uses. All one need do is press gently and lid locks.
Downloaded manual but since have the OKO-Lavamat things aren't that much different. However Electrolux did make some changes along way.
"Zeit Sparen" is the "time saver" button. Same as with my other AEG one uses this to shave time off cycles. Maddening thing is manual does not give cycle times; merely says "refer to machine".
This model does not have a "Sensitive" function. The 46210 does, but that is a minor niggle. More so because unlike my OKO-Lavamat this machine does not allow use of "Rinse Plus" and Sensitive. The latter did so for "Cottons/Linens", and a few other cycles. However those which already had high water usage (such as Delicates) didn't allow.
One can open this machine up to ten minutes into cycle. One knows from old that amount of time is allotted by AEG to heat water. Thus one assumes to prevent scalding or whatever once machine reaches temperature it is "locked".
Another minor issue is lack of "20C" (no heat) option for normal and most other cycles. There are times when doing say a warm, or cold wash that don't want the bother (nor expense) of using machine's heaters. But guess Electrolux thought different.
