well done Paul
you've kept us anticipating throughout this thread, and have not disapointed. Great photos and videos of a great machine, as you've said before this machine and its successer must have been Hoovers biggest selling automatic , yet these days the rarest, so well done in all your efforts to rescue both machines, as you've shown it was definatly worth it.
We look forward to seeing the results of your further work on the cabinet soon.
One question, has anyone ever tried or found a way of turning a grey door boot black, and obviously in a way that won't turn the successive white loads grey lol. Just a thought, I've never tried, but I think untill the early 1980s all hotpoints and hoovers had black door boots, it would just be a nice finishing touch, to this and many other restorations to fit a black door boot.
Good to see the photos of the dryer too, a very popular Dryer to, I just wish it had been designed with a porthole door. One other famous detail about these dryers is the ability for the clockwork timer to start ticking at the merest glance, if one was found unused for twenty years as soon as it was touched the timer would do a few ticks lol
So thanks and well done Paul, now can you let David out of his waiting, he's itching to hear and see details of the 1509
Mathew
