Videos of an old Constructa

[lavamat_jon]

Ritchie - I believe it dates from the mid 1970s. There are also baby blue Primus washers from the 70s in that launderette, as well as yellow Speed Queen dryers from the same period. They also used to have Duplex washers (anybody remember them?), but they got replaced by boring Ipsos. Boring because every launderette in England seems to have Ipso washers :-(.

Jon

 

[aquarius1984]

at our local launderette we have primus machines like in EastEnders....

No Dots or Paulines tho. I think her names Vera.

Nick

 

[jetcone]

OOOOHHH

Louis I want one!

What a klunker, I would love to experiment with boil wash too!

1956 thats almost as old as..........nah!

The sounds are just startling.

jon

 

[constructa]

Constructa washer

good dag foraloysius,

what kind of powersuply does this beautiful machine need? Is it true that it has two motors? Those early constructas were sold with single- and three phase motors for 220V single and three phase powersuply as well as for 380V three Phase.

The spinning motor must have arround 1 1/2 European Hp(about1000w)

 

[foraloysius]

Hi,

This washer is owned by a member of the German club.The link is below. This machine is owned by member Manu, you can see pictures in the "Meine Waschmaschine und Ich" thread.

I think you could be right that this machine might have two motors (actually three if you include the motor for the pump). One motor is for washing and one for spinning. I think it is the wash motor that works as a break after the spin.

Louis