keymatic3203
Well-known member
spacemates
Hi Dave
Great to read this thread and to read of your putting into action the thoughts I'm sure of many of us working on vintage washers have had, about producing obsolete door boots.
I've only thought about as far as making a clay boot and producing a plaster cast mould, that wouldn't be very precise and I wouldn't be sure of a suitable material to use, I know latex would last long at all.
But back to these westinghouse boots, i understand your looking at haveing the material extruded as the original westinghouse ones were and then joined to form the complete boot. If this is the case, and i ask not knowing much about the slantfront laundromats, otherthan what ive seen on this forum, but i do have an english electric liberator, ie a spacemate washer with the ribbed door boot, manufactured under liceince in the uk. So my question is, i know the slantfront and spacemate boots aren't interchangable, but do they have the same profile, so that the same extrusion is used but joined at a different length. If so I would be grateful to buy a length or if you can get a few spacemates boots made i would definatly buy a couple.
And as a side question, could you get the name or details of the rubber/silicone material used to manufacture the boots, to possibly use for repairs or to produce one offs using a plaster mould. I'm probably asking the impossible here, but when we have machines that could be restored but lack a boot, i tend to start thinking of possible solutions.
Thanks, look forward with interest to seeing how you get on.
Mathew
Hi Dave
Great to read this thread and to read of your putting into action the thoughts I'm sure of many of us working on vintage washers have had, about producing obsolete door boots.
I've only thought about as far as making a clay boot and producing a plaster cast mould, that wouldn't be very precise and I wouldn't be sure of a suitable material to use, I know latex would last long at all.
But back to these westinghouse boots, i understand your looking at haveing the material extruded as the original westinghouse ones were and then joined to form the complete boot. If this is the case, and i ask not knowing much about the slantfront laundromats, otherthan what ive seen on this forum, but i do have an english electric liberator, ie a spacemate washer with the ribbed door boot, manufactured under liceince in the uk. So my question is, i know the slantfront and spacemate boots aren't interchangable, but do they have the same profile, so that the same extrusion is used but joined at a different length. If so I would be grateful to buy a length or if you can get a few spacemates boots made i would definatly buy a couple.
And as a side question, could you get the name or details of the rubber/silicone material used to manufacture the boots, to possibly use for repairs or to produce one offs using a plaster mould. I'm probably asking the impossible here, but when we have machines that could be restored but lack a boot, i tend to start thinking of possible solutions.
Thanks, look forward with interest to seeing how you get on.
Mathew
