Operation Matchbox Rescue! - Hoover 3236H - continued.....

[matchboxpaul]

Hi guys here is some more bumpff on the 3236H

PLUS

the tidy up story of Mathews 3022 dryer de luxe

PLUS (here you go David!)

the painful pictures of the other Stoke Damerel resident, in the form of the Hotpoint 1509/05 Automatic de luxe.

Enjoy!

 

[matchboxpaul]

Just reposting the vid links....

to keep the already posted ones, together with the newer ones later.

Here is the start of cycle vid, with programme 5...

 

[matchboxpaul]

and the 'into distribution' vid...

 

[matchboxpaul]

To the newly preserved 3022 dryer...

all looked fine to me, but Mathew quickly had it outside and diassembling began....

 

[matchboxpaul]

Whilst I was making vids of the 3236H, Mathew continued removing screws and panels and before I knew it, the dryer was drumless...

 

[matchboxpaul]

erm.......DANGER, DANGER!

happen a good job Mathew did take the dryer apart, as it provided a fine example of why you should always clean the lint filter out and let your dryer breathe!

The heating element ring and bearing area were coated in fluff and the browned look of the element holders show that it was in a rather dangerous condition...

 

[matchboxpaul]

closer.

when i was a kid, the then neighbour of my grandma had a matched set of hoover machines in the form of a A3006 washer and a D6008 dryer.

One day my grandma was working in the garden, when she noticed smoke billowing from his coal place, where the dryer was kept.

His D6008 was on fire, but thankfully did little damage as the fire was caught early.
The dryer was a write-off and lived outside, facing my grandmas garden, for about five years after the fire.

His dryer probably had internal fluff conditions similar to this 3022, so good call on taking your new acquisition to pieces Mathew....

 

[matchboxpaul]

The motor, also caked in fluff....

 

[matchboxpaul]

3022 history now

Introduced in 1970, the first machines were of a half panel design (like the 3235 washing machine) which meant that Hoover had to produce two styles of basic bodyshell:

half panel bodyshell (without cut outs for powder drawer) - 3235 washer and 3022 dryer.

full panel bodyshell (with powder drawer cut outs) - 3236H and 3243H washers.

 

[matchboxpaul]

There is a preserved half panel dryer!

This 3022 is awaiting restoration, having spent many years outside under a tarpaulin.

Given time it will sit alongside its matching 3236H one day...

 

[matchboxpaul]

Details of the half panel.

Question!
can anyone fathom out what goes on between the off position and the 0mins position?

 

[aquarius1984]

Hmmmm niiiice.

Is your phone battery dead?

 

[matchboxpaul]

The pointlessness of producing two different bodyshells was lost on Hoover for a good two years of production.

Eventually they saw sense in 1972 and started producing standard bodyshells for all their laundry appliances, with each bodyshell having all cut-outs, including those for a powder drawer.

Half panel models 3235washer and 3022 dryer employed these bodyshells, but had their facia panels extended to cover the holes.

Thus came the Hoover 3022 dryer de luxe - version 2...

 

[matchboxpaul]

Ooopps!

Phone was off - now on.

x-p

 

[matchboxpaul]

then came the change of facia and accent colour to produce model 3022 - version 3, of which Mathews is one...

 

[matchboxpaul]

the final version was model 3022A, which was essentially the prototype for the series of machines that replaced the matchboxes.

As far as i know it was visually identical, but mechanically was as per the D6008.

 

[matchboxpaul]

Back to Mathew's machine...

TA DA!

post clean and the change is radically different - no fluff!

Note the cut out for the powder drawer, covered over by the extended facia panel.
So, should be able to insert a washing machines internals into this bodyshell...

 

[matchboxpaul]

Note the scorch marks caused by overheating around the areas where it was caked in fluff...

 

[matchboxpaul]

cleaned motor...