Hi all, sorry I haven't posted in a while! I'll reply in the order of the posts
Bob - actually (as Darren mentioned) the coloured dial is the programme status dial (unfortunately - probably due to vandalism - the prewash/spin portions have broke off so only the wash and rinse portions are visible), and the small grey dial is for water temperature (Hot/Warm/Cold).
Brent - the final spin lasts for about 5 minutes in total - with the first 2 minutes being at slow speed (which is the speed it spins out at - it looks to be around ~400rpm), and the last 3 minutes being at high speed (which is ~700rpm - very fast for a bolt down!). It was actually pretty common (as Louis mentioned) for older washers to fill very high in the final rinse, in fact there were also domestic FLs made by Philips (who were later bought by Whirlpool), which also sin-drained - unfortunately Whirlpool discontinued this when they took over the line :-(. Also, as far as I am aware, all European frontloaders have had reversing drum action in the wash from day 1 (in the early 1950s). Whenever your in England feel welcome to pop into Lincoln and Darren and I will gladly take you to the launderette
. Schulthess are still making frontloaders to this very day - have included their link at the bottom of the page
Peter H - Now I bet you would kill to have these in your laundromats, no? LOL. The spin cycle is a two phase approach - ~400 slow/~700 fast, got the clothes pretty dry but I took stuff home to dry ont he line so didn't use the dryer (Darren and I are both very cautious about shrinkage and dry everything either on the line or the clotheshorse). The complete wash programme is about 28 minutes, pre-wash is about 4 I would guess and the main-wash is about 8. The rinses basically just fill 3/4 up the glasses and drain as soon as the water has stopped filling. Oh, BTW, if you look very closely in the washer glass in the first two pictures you can just make out 70s laundromat yellow SQ Loadstar dryers
- they have mechanical temperature selection and a quarter-turn coin meter.
Mike - fortunately Dot had left by the time we got there (it is only partially attended), but there was a woman and her daughter there giving us werid looks cos we were filming and that! They were gazing into their 30lb Ipso for most of the part though - you can actually hear the Ipso spin in the background halfway through the video somewhere
. PS I love your Keymatic... but also still loving your Maytag Eurolines too
Steve - don't confuse me with figures!!!! You know I'm crap with my maths LOL. As Darren said, the Schulthess did 3 really really really high level rinses - bloody good at rinsing too!!!
Terry - the Schulthess 15lb or so machines cost £2.40 to run; as do the Primus 16lb washers - whilst the 30lb Ipsos cost £4.40! The dryers are £0.20/4 mins. Anotherr launderette in the area (with all Ipsos) vends at £2.20 for 16lb, £2.80 for 25lb, £3.80 for 35lb, and £5 for 50lb, and £0.19/7 minutes.
Hugh - I totally agree with you - that is how every frontloader should rinse and spin
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Louis - It does indeed look like an old Cosntructa - I actually thought that when I first used them a few years ago.
The7 - as with every other commercial hardmount washer, the door is mounted to the cabinet and the machine is bolted down. No rubber boot etc - seal is around the door like on Asko machines.
Rich - we had LOADS!!!! of fun :-D. The launderette is goign to become a frequent haunt of mine and Darren's I fear LOL.
Robert - Thanks for the compliments! This is the only spin-draining frontloader I've seen - I must say it actually does remind me of the older solid-tub TL's
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Sharonabc (and all others who've requested by email) - my email server won't allow me to send files over 10MB (unfortunately the msot annoying thign is that the video file size is something like 10.1MB!!!). If any of you have messenger programmes, then perhaps I could send it over there? I have MSN, AIM an Yahoo...
Darren - well, what can I say!!! You sure have turned into a great laundry buddy LOL - today was good again! Shame I didn't have any charge on my camera (being the ditz I am I hadn't turned my camera off from when I uploaded Monday's photos to the computer), but will definitely have some on Friday - which will also hopefully contain a wash in the Primus
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Take care all!! More pics due on Friday
Jon
so if he's good & remember's his cam we will have more pix
