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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!
 
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...

 
To the newly preserved 3022 dryer...

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

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

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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...

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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....

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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.

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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...

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Details of the half panel.

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

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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...

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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.
 
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...

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a feature of the early 3022's was their plastic base panels.

Mine and Robs machine is a later version 3022 from 1974 and has a metal baseplate...

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Back to the 3236H - another VIDEO!

When we left it last, the 3236H was working its way through a load of towels.

Here the machine has worked its way past programme 10 stage, clickety click click, and enters 'SPIN'.....

 
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
 
Hiya Mathew.

I am going to hold off posting current pictures of the machine just for the mo - thats for another days photo shoot and hopefully soon!
Plus I need you to help me tinker with it a bit, just to make sure things that I have done are ok.

Just me wanting second opinions.

dryers and their tickers. LOL. too true!

Paul
 

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