Off-balance spins

[electron800]

Hi everyone,

I have heard that older Hoovers are notorious for shaking a lot during spin. My Ecologic is usually not too bad but can sometimes become massively off-balance and literally leap forward at the start of spin. Since the machine is on wheels and has no way of being levelled there's not much I can do to stablise it. The floor is fairly level to start with so I'm not sure how much of an issue this is. Could anybody tell me whether allowing the machine to spin out of balance will cause any serious damage? Should I stop it when this happens or just let it get on with it?

Thanks

 

[kirri]

Hi,i,too had a dodgy Hoover logic 1200 in 1987.It would spin smoothly at 500rpm, go CRAZY at 800 rpm and revert back to smooth at 1200rpm.I had Hoover out on several occasions for this and they couldn't work it out-the machine was level on a concrete floor etc so they suggested i just let it do it's own thing,which i did and it lasted a few years!

 

[robm]

Electron is very unstable

Hi all

My Hoover 800rpm Electron isn't very stable at all. It's on a concrete floor but without proper feet it's very hard to keep very level. You can see in the video I did just how much it shakes. It must be a nightmare on floorboards.

Rob

 

[rolls_rapide]

Both my mother and grandmother had the Hoover 'Electronic de luxe 1100', A3110.

Mum's was on a concrete floor, and during spin, it trundled out several inches.

Gran's was on conventional suspended wooden floorboards and it vibrated a bit, but seemed to stay put.

We moved house a few years later, and Mum's machine seemed okay in a first floor flat with conventional wooden (floorboard) floors.

She currently has a Bosch Exxcel, and it had to be bolted to those modern chipboard floor panels - horrible flooring; bring back decent floorboards!

So I would say that there are various factors involved, including the machine's own resonance frequency.

A friend had a Whirlpool 1100 that danced about, despite the chipboard floor being replaced by concrete.

When she got a new Whirlpool 1200, that seemed to be okay.