Shot of my 1979 AEG lavamat 602S

[lavamat_daniele]

Hi, here's my Lavamat in her high level rinse!
Hope you like it.

 

[rickr]

kewl pix! Welcome to the club!!

Thanks for posting the picture Daniele.The machine looks very large. How wide is it? BTW is it a dryer also?

Thank you,
Rick

 

[jetcone]

Hi Daniele

Welcome!
Your Lavamat almost looks like a later Bendix! How much clothing does it hold on a cycle?

Jet

 

[peteski50]

1979 AEG

Real nice washer. It also reminds me of a Bendix.
Peter

 

[lavamat_daniele]

Thank you for your anwers, I'm glad you enjoy my post.
My Lavamat is a standard 5 kg european FL, it seems bigger beacause the front opening is very little (as in most old washers). The size is the same of a modern Miele or AEG machine and no, it doesn't dry clothes! It just spins at max 560 rpm!
The only fault she has is the lack of a temperature setting: it's only possible to have long cycle at high temp, short cycle at low temp. I have to turn off the machine for a while in order to get longer washing times at low temps.
Thank you again, i'm very happy to be here!
Daniele

 

[lavamat_jon]

Hi Daniele!

My 2004 AEG does deep rinses too, so great at rinsing. What year is your AEG from? It looks late 70s to me... my auntie has a mid 80s Lavamat 560. Rinses halfway up the door, and the spin cycle was very strange too. Hers would distribute during the drain, then when all the water had drained out would stop the drum, then just drain with a stationary drain for about 30 secs (making that wonderful shoop-shoop-shoop-shoop sound :-D), then suddenly boosted up to either 650rpm if it was an interim spin, or straight up to 850rpm if it was the final spin. Amazing thing is this machine never got off balance!!!

Anyway here is a pic of the rinse level in my 2004 AEG .

Take care all,

Jon

 

[hooverac216]

do all machines from2004 fillthat high

 

[lavamat_jon]

It's the Sensitive higher water level option. Without the sensitive option, all the rinses fill about 1/4 up the window, and the final conditioner rinse fills 1/3 up the window. With the sensitive option pressed, the first rinse fills 1/3 up the window, and the 4 rinses after that all fill to that level in the pick (about 1/2 up the window).

Jon

 

[lavamat_daniele]

About my Lavamat

Thank Jon for your Lavamat-details!
I guess mine is dated 1979: looking at the AEG italian site, and downloading users manuals, there was a similar machine of that year. (The link below is from the english site, the manual is about the machine with the temperature selector, it says nothing about the year).
In my lavamat the cycle runs very easily: it starts turning while filling, then turns while heating, turns while it drains the main wash and the 5 rinses water, then only spins soon after the final rinse water is completely out.
Sometimes it's not so balanced, but due to its weight it never jumps round the kitchen(the manual says 100 kg)!
It doesn't spin during the interm. rinses, sometimes starts filling the next rinse water having not completely drained the precedent one.
The cotton cycle washes at low water level and rinses at high level.
The syntetic/delicate cycle washes and rinses at high level with reduced mecanical action and finishes with water in.

I'll post other pics.
Bye! )

http://www.serviceforce.co.uk/pdfs/U01464.pdf

 

[lavamat_daniele]

About Jon's Lavamat

Jon, it's great that a modern machine rinses at that water level!
I was deciding if buying a new AEG or Miele washer, but now I know which direction I have to take!
My parents Zanussi RJ10 (see link below), also made by Electrolux as modern Lavamat, in the cotton cycle rinses with a very poor quantity of water, which means I have to set the spin at 650rpm (when the max is 1000) to get more water. Sometimes it's not enough and I have to set another rinse and then final spin by hand. And I HATE to do that!

What do all of you think about latest version of AEG Lavamat?
As anyone tried it? I'm in love with the 86800 model.

Daniele

http://www.rex.it/node35.asp?ProdID=13844

 

[foraloysius]

Welcome Daniele,

Thank you for sharing your AEG pictures, I love that series. It was still available in 1982 when I bought my first washer. I didn't have room for a frontloader, so I bought my Philips toploader. Otherwise I had seriously considered buying the Lavamat 802TS.

Louis

 

[lavamat_daniele]

Wish I...

...had the possibility to buy that machines in that period!
I also love the '60 machines with soap dispenser on the top. In a Lavamat manual of the period (see the link below) they suggested to pour the washing powder while water was flushing in!
I'd kill for one of that.

To Louis:
I've seen the photo in your link: you have/had great machines!

Ciao
Daniele

http://www.serviceforce.co.uk/pdfs/U03404.pdf

 

[MrX]

You can programme the miele to do a high level rinse too!
It's an option that you programme in, check the instruction manual for details. It's quite easy.

 

[foraloysius]

I have set my older Miele W715 to do high level rinses. My AEG 6450 only does the low level ones. I use the AEG for smaller loads and loads that don't need high level rinses, the other loads go in the Miele. Or sometimes one of the other washers.

 

[lavamat_daniele]

And how high is the high level rinse of your Miele?
Do you have pics? ^__^
daniele

 

[lavamat_jon]

Yup - Miele's do high level rinses too, I will have to compare both the AEG and Miele come the 5th of May... :-D.

Jon

 

[foraloysius]

Picture time

It's a bit of a vague picture, but this one shows the water level in the rinse cycle.

 

[lavamat_daniele]

Thank you Louis for your pics.
Jon, we're waiting for details when the Miele arrives!
Daniele

 

[mielerod69]

I have a Miele W459 from 1978 and you need to wait 10 seconds after the water starts to flow through and then add the detergent for the prewash

 

[mielerod69]

here's pics of my miele

I'll post some photos of my W487 on high level rinse

http://au.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ro....pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/rodders1169/my_photos

 

[jetcone]

Louis were you using Dixan in that Load I trust?? Or maybe OmO??

Jet

 

[foraloysius]

No, it was Ariel, P&G's major brand here.

 

[tompw60]

Re Shot of 1979 AEG Lavamat 602s

Hi Danielle

This particular AEG series of washers where actually badged up Zanussi machines. If you look carefully at it and look at some other Zanussi washers from that period you will find they where very simular. Originally like back in the 50s/60s and 70s Zanussi made washing machines for the German market for AEG. The Lavamat 500, 602s 802s and 803 and the Lavamat LVs were all badged up Zanussi's most of the other machines from the likes of the Lavamats from the OKO range where AEGs own machines from their factory in Nurenberg

They made brilliant machines back then!

AEG was owned by Mercedes Benz which was who owned AEG from 1985 onwards they were bought by Electrolux in 1994 and became defunct in 1996. A bit of history there.

Tom

 

[tompw60]

Re Lavamat 560

Hi Jon

Your Lavamat sounds like it did exactly the same as what my Grandma's old AEG did regarding rinsing and spinning patterns. Hers was a Lavamat 561. At the point when the pump made the shop, whoop sounds was when it had drained all the water out. The reason it did that as all machines do it is that the pump drives the water through the ubend of the wast pipe and there is usually water in the middle part of the ubend and it is the weight of the water that brought up and out of the waste pipe.

Regarding the spinning sequence my grandmas Lavamat 561 did exactly the same as yours when it started to spin. It took me by surprise a few times when it burst into spin. I watched carefully at one point and when it starts the spin it dose a slight distribute and when it vaguely spreads the load around the drum it starts the spin.

The reason your aunties and my grandmas spun like it did was because it had a clutch assembly that would release the drum to go up to speed (the American top loaders had a clutch and so did the old Zanussi Zrange washers and also mechanically controlled commercial washer had it aswell) as oppose to a spin capacitator like most machines have these days.

Would love to see your aunties Lavamat 560 in action doing a full cotton cycle. It will bring back memories of my grandmas 561 before it died in 2006. If you can upload any videos and pictures of it in action that would be great.

Many Thanks

Tom