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Have been on prowl for some time now to nab a European spin drier. Don't know why as my older model Laundry Alternative works well enough, noisy at times but gets job done. Almost pulled trigger a few times but shipping a spin drier from UK or Europe was rather dear, so never bothered.

Week ago this Spin-X unit popped up on FleaPay. What's nice about Spin-X is they are made in Germany by Thomas Centri. Same spin driers sold in Europe just with a few bits changed to run on our 120v/60hz power instead of 220v/50hz.

Anyway here I am with this, and nice bit of kit it seems so far....

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Known over here with

A Bendix label and Indesit among others but yours has a whopping 3,300 rpm speed ours was a paltry 1400, Which when these were new was faster than any automatic, Have a few in the shed of the Creda variety and they are 2,800 rpm. Use one occasionally but tend to use a Twin Tub as it has a 3,100 spin and a pump so no bucket to lift, But they save a fortune on the dryer and the way electricity prices are set to rise I think they are going to become a lot more popular.

Austin
 
Indesit...

Not quite.

The Indesit models (two of them), are still roughly based on the Creda 'Debonair' designs. The motor support suspension is a tad more substantial compared to the Thomas/White Knight/Crosslee design.

The Indesit models are made in Hungary - and available to buy in the UK. The two versions are 'gravity drain' via a spout (NISDG428), and pumped drain via a hose (NISDP429). The spin mats are rigid plastic these days.
 
Congratulations

Have fun with your new toy. It's a shame these are not more readily available in this country. If these were available at the time of combos, they could have been more efficient. You will have to report to us on the difference between the extracting abilities of this machine compared to your Miele's top spin speed.
 
 

 

A spinner is a wonderful addition to any laundry room.  I watched for one locally for a long time, finally one popped up on CL.  Well worth the wait.   I have a feeling you're going to love this..  Congrats!

 

 



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Thanks for well wishes everyone!

Here is what our Laundry Alternative spin dryer looks like. It is the older model not with clear lid. https://www.dharmatrading.com/tools/spin-dryer.html

Have had it for ages and it still works same as when arrives. Tends to be a tad noisy if things aren't well balanced. Makes a horrible rattle racket that can wake the dead. This seriously limits doing anything late night when people are asleep.

IIRC other members purchased same LA spin dryer (Whirlcool, Toggleswitch were two IIRC), with reports of the thing on at least one occasion exploding.

Initial maiden spin will have to wait for weekend when have a wash day. Quick look round has one beliving this unit is built to a slightly better standard than LA. Stainless steel in tub seems more substantial, paint job as well.

Tub on this Spin-X doesn't seem deep as LA, but overall unit is more squat and wider.

Drum capacity for this unit is about 8 lbs/3.7 kg

https://shopping.mercatos.com/en/thomas-centri-775-sel_pid4355414.html

Will have to research further but have long suspected my LA spinner is based on Thomas Centri SEK 776 which holds 4.5kg

https://whatvacuum.com/product/776-sek/

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On speed difference

We've discussed spin dryers often here in group, and general consensus seems to be that European units didn't care about difference between 50hz and 60hz, long as correct 208v-240v voltage was supplied. At latter units simply spun about ten percent faster.

This Thomas SEK 775 has top speed in Europe of 2800 rpms. As Spin-X things ramp up to 3,300 rpms, which is about ten percent faster give or take.

http://spin-x.com/details-on-the-spin-x-spindryer/

However since one normally cannot plug a 220v appliance into 120v, there may be something else at play here as well.
 
Spin X Extractors

I was given one like Laundress just got about 3 years ago, it was sort of fun but to me not worth the brother of breaking a large loads of clothing in three batches to get a little more water out when I have such good fast gas dryers.

 

I will take it over to the museum and let people play with it.

 

The speed difference between 50 and 60 cycles is much closer to 15% not 10%.

 

John L.
 
Realize it's not up everyone's street, but do a fair amount of washing in either semi-automatic machines (Maytag wringer), or just by hand with tubs, posser and mangle. As such a spin dryer is invaluable for removing excess water.

Other times have washing that will simply prove hopeless for older Miele to spin without it trashing and banging about. These are usually small loads and or things like jeans, etc... They are either done by hand or washed in Miele on cycle without interim or final spin. When that machine is done things are bunged into spin drier.

Both AEG Lavamat washers while far better at managing to spin loads that may become unbalanced take ages. Toplader shortest cycle runs about two hours, one does not always have that kind of time...

Find both modern AEG washers nearly useless for woolens. Best they can manage is perhaps just one jumper or pull, and even then one isn't always happy with results. Can do two or three by hand, bunged and spin drier, and done in < half hour.

The Miele W1070 only has final high spin speed of either 900 or 1100 rpms. The Whirlpool compact dryer only has about a 1450 watt heating element, so less remaining moisture equals faster drying and energy savings. As for the Lavatherm convection dryer, less said about that machine better. One really does want to get things dry as possible from extraction rather than let the Lavatherm have a go. Oh it will get the job done eventually, but takes ages and cost rather dear in energy use.

Again realize "old wash days" aren't everyone's thing around here; but different stroke for different folks...

 
Gravity Spinner

Congratulations of your "new" spinner, I hope you will find it useful, in fact I am pretty sure that you will - I have a White Knight model which is somewhat similar and I would not be without it - as I use vintage machines with slower spin spin speeds, it is great for getting out more water, especially when using a tumble dryer. I suspect you will find it particularly useful in the summer when you might wish to keep the use of a dryer to a minimum to keep the heat down. I am the first to agree that it can be a bit of a pain having to take "dry" washing out of the machine only to have to spin it all again but the more water it extracts the lower your gas or electricity bill will be not to mention the environmental impact. It will be particularly useful with towels.

Some words of advice though. Look around for the largest container to go under the outlet spout (which is quite low) to collect the water that you can find - I use a 3 1/2 pint plastic jug. Take care, particularly when spinning items from your Maytag Wringer which will be particularly wet, that you do not overflow this container. You might stop the spinner but the water will keep coming, so you will be well advised to spin in short bursts and empty the container in between, to avoid it overflowing onto the floor. Either have two containers or keep a towel to hand to catch the drips whilst you empty the container.

Finally you will find that ramming laundry into a spin dryer will lead to more creasing. On towels and the like this might not matter, but you will notice it particularly on sheets and pillowcases but of course if you iron whilst still a little damp (out of the tumble dryer) this will not be so much an issue.

Despite all this it is still well worth having, as and when mine stops working I will certainly replace it. I hope you get a lot of use from it.
 

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