A Mayday Labour day gathering at SESteves in London had us celebrating his birthday as well as sorting out his cabin washroom after many months of house renovations, also getting to grips with fixing two rare twintubs for our sins..
Heres Richard Ricky505, Birthday boy Steve SESteve, Steve and Darren SlowSpin66 getting ready to fix n repair a very rare Servis Supertwin.
Mayday, Labour Day & Rare Prototype Vintage Repairs !!
First up for repair was this last incarnation of the Colston twintub, based on the Rolls Twintub of the sixties, this model had been streamlined with a larger squarer cabinet, it uses the same wash action as the rolls, a small impeller in the base of the washtub, surrounded by a heater this swirls the clothes around the water for cleaning !!
Mayday, Labour Day & Rare Prototype Vintage Repairs !!
Darren & Steve peruse with thinking caps on as to where to start, the spin can mounts are worn , hence leaning drum and the bearing need replacing, so with further ado..
Mayday, Labour Day & Rare Prototype Vintage Repairs !!
For an economically priced twinny compared to Hotpoint & Servis we where well surprised to see a grand set of German bearings on the spin mount n stem, now these where still okay it was the proverbial carbon seal that had worn hence water ingress and a start of rumbling, so while all apart a new set will be fitted !!
Mayday, Labour Day & Rare Prototype Vintage Repairs !!
Meanwhile more tea is always required Vicar, and here we are joined by Darren, Rob (RobM) from nearby and Richard..Now we have know Rob from 2009 on AW and beyond on the other groups and yet we still hadn't met, so he had his baptism of fire, and we all had a great time meeting, discussing and as you can see drinking, we all said its a different experience meeting up together rather than behind the screen !!
