Look what came home with me from Manchester

[74simon]

Well done Lee,

It's a great feeling to get something you suspected you'd never find! It does look very smart, even before cleaning. is the pressure vessel soft plastic? Wonder if you could fix it with automotive radiator hose tape or something.

Have fun sorting her out!

Si

 

[hotpoint95622]

Hotpoint Liberator De Luxe 1851-03

Thank you to every one, I’m still pinching myself.

Circuit board, yes while it was lying on its back in the car I thought, bloody hell where is the speed module gone, how am I going to find a replacement, then on closer inspection I could not find the wiring down there, where I was expecting it to be.

When the back came off I found some more things I was not expecting, PCB at the back of the options switches, and the timer is a monster with two motors and no thermo stop solenoid. Just noticed that there are no springs at the top, just the three dampers at the bottom, which float relay well.

The baffles are the same the full length front to back, my thoughts when picking up this machine where what condition would it be in, luckily it’s mint, not a chip anywhere.

Matching dryer, I would love to have one, but it’s the age old thing of not having the room at the moment to accommodate one.

So on with the show, spent the morning stripping down and cleaning. Photo of the PCB, it’s rather a simply no nonsense one.

 

[hotpoint95622]

Hotpoint Liberator De Luxe 1851-03

The timer, top view.

 

[hotpoint95622]

Hotpoint Liberator De Luxe 1851-03

Timer, back view.
At some point in the re-build I’m going to have to lubricate the cams as the unit is hard to turn and I don’t like forcing it round.

 

[hotpoint95622]

Hotpoint Liberator De Luxe 1851-03

Now for the problems.
First the bed wetting.
The pressure vessel has split, I have thought of perhaps injecting silicon into the cracks or using the rubber patches in a cycle puncture repair kit.
Can any one make any suggestions, perhaps you have fixed this sort of problem before, and one thing is for certain I can’t buy a replacement.

 

[hotpoint95622]

Hotpoint Liberator De Luxe 1851-03

The dreaded rust.
The front panel has had the brunt of it, big re-paint required.
Back side.

 

[hotpoint95622]

Hotpoint Liberator De Luxe 1851-03

Top side.

 

[hotpoint95622]

Hotpoint Liberator De Luxe 1851-03

Main front panel.
None of the corrosion is deep, just surface rust.

 

[hotpoint95622]

Hotpoint Liberator De Luxe 1851-03

Options switches haven been spared the usual crumbly syndrome, just faded in the sun.

 

[hotpoint95622]

Hotpoint Liberator De Luxe 1851-03

The outer tub is also in great shape except for a little rusting around the lip which a can clean and put some bath enamel on to preserve it from any more decay.

 

[hotpoint95622]

Hotpoint Liberator De Luxe 1851-03

That it for now, visitors have arrived.
The cleaned door.
Still some light pitting in place, suppose that’s what comes with age, a few winkles and age spots.

 

[hotpoint95622]

Hotpoint Liberator De Luxe 1851-03

Her new rest home with the youngsters.

 

[hotpoint95622]

Hotpoint Liberator De Luxe 1851-03

More of the water leak.
Heater and pressure vessel.

 

[hotpoint95622]

Hotpoint Liberator De Luxe 1851-03

That famous timer program knob.

 

[hotpoint95622]

Hotpoint Liberator De Luxe 1851-03

Well that it for now, till I find time to make a start on the paint job, order a new door boot and fix that leak.

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Lee.

I have just updated my spreadsheet with your name against model 1851/03!
You got your head around owning one yet? Its freaky aint it - I still do a double take when I see our 1828/02 and touch it to make sure its real. lol.

Piccies are great and I find it intersting to note the differences between your machine and our development of it.

Keep the piccies coming and I cant wait to see the one of the 18680, 95622 and your put back together again 1851/03!

Again - congrats on the new purchase.
paul

 

[hotpoint95622]

Hotpoint Liberator De Luxe 1851-03

Not yet, keep going out to the garage to make sure it is the real deal.
I have ordered the door boot and made some inquires for the enamel paint for that small patch on the lip of the outer tub, it will also come in for the 18680 which also has the same small patch in the same place, its for repairing cast iron baths.

Just that rubber pressure vessel, what to do with that????

 

[matchboxpaul]

Not being techinically minded....

...but could a later 18series or 95series pressure vessel work on the 1851/03?

Below is a piccy of our 18361 in the throes of repair...

 

[bertrum]

pressure pot

Hi
nice old machine.
with regard the pressure pot, masterpart still sell them 161832 £16.37 and in stock.
Amazing the parts still available for this old machine.

 

[hotpoint95622]

Hotpoint Liberator De Luxe 1851-03

Thank you bertrum

I have sent an e-mail; I can’t get passed the home page of the website as I don’t have an account. See weather I can sign up.

 

[hotpoint95622]

Hotpoint Liberator De Luxe 1851-03

I must be looking in the wrong place, www.masterpart.com have responded to my e-mail “we no longer supply this part, try Hotpoint direct” which also say it’s an obsolete part.

So will try the silicon first and if that doesn’t work I will try the rubber cycle patches.

 

[electron1100]

my two penneth worth

Hello LEE

Congrats on your drive and sheer bloody determination to get this machine form the git who had it.

It is to his advantage that you have the skills to restore and service this machine up to spec.

It will look brilliant in you collection, maybe some barbed wire to cordon off that area

now i had an outlet pipe on an old Hoover twin tub that had cracked and was shagged......

I got from a tyre fitting place some liquid rubber (they use it for sealing tyres on rims), painted it on let it dry and painted on some more and this did the trick, it is highly volatile this stuff and gets you high as kite if your not careful but that worked

On the other hand i cannot see why any of the silicon rubber sealants woudn't do the job either

Anyways glad you got it and now your life is complete well you wont be wanting any more machines will you LOL

Gary

 

[bertrum]

pressure pot

Hi
according to there website its in stock but I think they need to update there system, not for the first time. Im not going mad, check out this screen shot!

 

[hotpoint95622]

Hotpoint Liberator De Luxe 1851-03

I have a bit of a sore head, the fecking up and over garage door spring and cables snapped as my hand left it in the up position, it smacked down on my head and the spring shatters into three pieces. Barstewarded.

To day I have spent some time working on the option switch as the auto prewash and gentle action switches worked but are a bit sticky and would stay locked in and the rinse hold one would not lock in at all, OMG what a pig when you have them apart it’s so difficult to aligned the small spring mechanism at the back, but all work now.

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Lee

Thank god there wasnt any richochet damage to the machines! Phew!
oh......and glad you are in one piece still too.

Braver person than me in detaching the buttons. I have seen the springs and they are very small. The mere sight of the spring arrangement has always resulted in me working round them in situ and thankfully all the 18s we own have had fully operational (or there abouts) buttons.

If you want to try and get the white button a bit cleaner, i used Astonish cook ware paste. Me and Rob, Mathew and Gary all use it and, so long as you water the paste down to within an inch of its life, it doesnt do any damage. Its what I used to clean the bodyshells of both Hoover 3236H and the Hotpoint 1828/02 with (amongst the many!).

Just to reitterate, you must get it to a very foamy, very watery liquid consistency or else it will be too abrasive and will do damage to the enamel.

Liking the buttons - they have retained their colour shades really rather well.

Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

In all seriousness, I hope your head is OK after the garage door attack.

Paul

 

[electron1100]

Off Sick

Lee thank christ you are only injured enough so you cant go to work but are still just able to leave your sick bed and do the important things yah poor lad keep up the good work

 

[hotpoint95622]

Hotpoint Liberator De Luxe 1851-03

Yes, if the garage door wasn’t doing its sterling work of keeping my machines safe it would have had a fist and a boot put thought it, the air was very blue for some time, even the dogs run for cover, it’s done this to me before, last time the runners broke away from the frame and took me with it, anyway back to work tomorrow oh what a bore.

The new door seal has arrived, so that’s another part ready for the re-build. Thanks Paul for the cleaning tip, will try the very weak solution on the rebuild.

 

[electron1100]

Back to work

No no Lee

I read the tea leaves and your going to be dizzy and have headaches tomorrow, best have another day off to be sure your ok.
Maybe do some light therapeutic work to keep your self occupied ;-)

 

[hotpoint95622]

Hotpoint Liberator De Luxe 1851-03

No way, the committee where all at home today, much quieter time at work; I spent most of the day in the store making out a stationery order. If I stayed at home I would have been nagged to within an inch of my life, it started first thing this morning about not having a shave for the last few days, Christ I hate shaving, so that made my mind up I’m off to work.