Teasmade!!!!!!

[mr_sparkle]

Hey gang! Just wanted to show you what I have sitting by my bedside to wake me up in the morning!

This is a Goblin 860 Teasmade, designed to wake you up with a fresh hot cup of tea every morning - and its GREAT!

I love it because to me its complete, typical English Enccentricity, to have an appliance by your bedside that has a mixture of Electricity, Water and Heat, and that wakes you up by boiling a ketter and transferrif scalding hot water under pressure into a teapot! LoL

Its handy tho cos it has a bed side lamb in it, which is one of the best reading lamps I have had!

Basically, each night you place water into the kettle on the left and tea into the teapot.

At the allotted time, the kettle begins to boil and since the lid is airtight, when boiling, the pressure of the steam forces the water into the teapot, where your tea brews.
Now remember this item was made about circa 1979, so no thermostats back then, instead, to stop the kettle boiling dry, it sits on an cool tilting platform, when full the platform tilts to close contacts and set the machine up ready for the morning. When empty the kettle sits high on the platform and when the alarm goes off instead of boiling, it sounds the buzzer!!!

THE BUZZER!!!! WOW is all I can say about that! - Instead of the nice gentle alarms now we take for granted, this thing has a solinoid in it, that come on when the alarm ticks round, so the alarm is something like the buzzer you hear when someone buzzes you into an apartment block! Sure gets me out of bed!!!!

Let me know what you think,

John

 

[mr_sparkle]

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[mr_sparkle]

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[toggleswitch]

Aa truly unique item. a "must have", I mean who doesn't want steam under presssure near their head!

Now to bust chops:

Quote ==> Now remember this item was made about circa 1979, so no thermostats back then...

When I was about your current age (in 1988+/-), electricity was just coming to outer New york City where I grew up. It was a hard life having to wash in the creek and use the outhouse in winter. We cooked on a coal stove and traveled by horse and buggy...... LOL ROFL LMAO

oh John what can I say....

 

[mr_sparkle]

Oh YES!

OF COURSE!!! - There was me thinking "Little Women" was pure fiction , but you were living the life!! HA HAA H LMAO!!!!!

"Oh Steve, who will marry you without a proper coming out?"
"A Libation you say?? - Mr darcy i am undone!"

ha ha ha ahaa ha

p.s. toggles baby why are you never online on messenger anymore - I miss you

 

[toggleswitch]

Rarely on anything other than AOL.

Trap me there and I will switch to YAHOO at your request.

here it is: [email protected]

(and YES, I WAS born in September LOL.)

 

[jetcone]

Hey Mr Sparkle

I am heading over to the UK next month,do they still make the TEASMADE??

I LUV IT!!!!

Jet

 

[jasonl]

Automatic tea

Hey. That's neato. A very British small appliance at that.

Jon, that thing runs on 220v 50hz. Can you modify one to run on 120v 60hz. Well, considering it's a heating element, no motors, it might run fine on a 220v outlet but I'm not sure.

 

[toggleswitch]

Time would sure run at a different pace.

would it (the clock) be slower on 115v vs. 230v

OR

faster on 60hz vs. 50 hz.

Somehow I know Tolivac has this one covered....

 

[mr_sparkle]

Availability

Yes you sure can still buy them, , but unfortunatly unlike mine.
Goblin stopped producing things a few years back, I sitll remember them making teasmades and Vacuums untill late 90's I beleive.
So if you want one like mine, then you need to use ebay, otherwise there are these 3 models currently for sale (left hand side of site).

As for the innards, its very basic, no transformers in there, the clock runs on about 120 volts i think with a big resistor in it, if you brose the link about teasmades, it does cover things like voltages , im sure you can just get a converter tho, interesting to find out.

the back of mine says:

200 - 250v , 50 Hz, 440 - 685w

http://www.teasmade.com/

 

[jasonl]

faster

I forgot. The clock motor. It would run faster on 60hz. Maybe you can find a 60hz, 120v movement for that clock out of an old digital clock, I would think. And the heating element and lamp would have to be changed as well.

Turntables have different pitch settings for 50 and 60hz. If there's a 50hz motor in there and you plug it into 60hz the record will spin faster.

Greg's Maytag has a 50hz pulley which is larger to compensate for the slower turning motor. That's why it runs like mad.

It won't cook the water as fast as it did in the UK either. But you're sleeping while this is happening so you wouldn't worry. Right... I'd be awake watching it and listening to it gurgle or whatever it does.

 

[whirlcool]

60/50 Hz Motors In Turntables

On some turntables the same motor is used for both 115V/60Hz and 220-240V/50Hz. To change over between the voltages, you usually change the pulley on the belt drive to compensate. Some of the Dual and AR turntable models are like this.