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Hi all - this is one that UK friends might be able to help with!

I've just done a load of wooley-jumper hand-washing (yes, some of us still handwash!), and having soaked the laundry room floor hauling wet woolens to and from the top-loader, I've decided I need a spin-dryer. Normally there are a few nice vintage numbers on ebay, but in spite of extensive trawling, nowt to be found, other than creda-debonair types. I'm after either a Hoover spinarinse (70s/80 model) or ideally (hen's teeth) a Hotpoint, i.e. one that I can rinse in too.

So if any eagle-eyed people spot one, please let me know! Loads of Hotpoint twin-tubs one at the moment (including a tidy 1464, and its Electra rebadge equivalent) - I just don't have room...

Ta

D :-)
 
We wash our woolens on a short/gentle cycle in our top-loader: a few minutes of agitation, let soak a few more minutes, then drain/rinse/spin and lay flat to dry. They come out great.

If you're intent on using a standalone spin dryer, check the RPMs. Anything over 650 or 700 is too fast for most woolens.
 
Spin Dryer

Hi David

Will keep an eye open, I`m sure between us there will be space in the van for one for you!!!, the hoover ones I like because they are taller, the Hotpoint ones because you can rinse in and the later pump debonairs are great...not forgetting the Frigidaires...

Hi Jeff, Our UK Hotpoint Toploaders spin at 1050rpm even for woollens, they just dont spin as long and coast the spin on and off...

I`ve always spun woollens in spinners and twinnies at 2,800rpm - 3,100 its not the revs but how they are supported, smaller drum better support , 30secs to a minute for woollens at 2,800rpm is great, aired flat, nearly ready to wear..

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Creda Debonair Autopump

Had this a few weeks from a junk shop and all it needed was the jubilee clip tightening around the drain hose to stop a leak.

Perfect for rinsing in and splendidly dry results at 2700rpm.

Amusing to think that back in the 70's folk with Indesit FL's with that low low 380rpm spin were using spin driers to get the wash dry quicker.

Here I am 35 years later with yet a modern 1000rpm Indesit craving for a 1600rpm plus machine and using a Creda to get that water out.

Towels are ever so soft after a good extraction in this as they spend less time drying into cardboard.

Really makes a difference on a full load of cottons. You can expect up to a litre out of a full load.

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and having soaked the laundry room floor hauling wet woolens

er....why not put the woolens in a bucket and carry them from the sink to the top-loader?
 
Lol - that's be eminently sensible of course Chris, but why use a bucket when you can buy another appliance!

Mike and Rob - a Hoover (or Oovaah as the other-half would have it in Valley's Welsh) has just come up on the bay, so I'll have ago at getting it. Love the Hotpoint idea more of course, but far less around I guess. I didn't realise they did one post-interlock law - anyone know what the model numbers were for those spinners based on the post 1460 supermatic? (Mike -the Bendix is a real blast from the past - does your one have that odd split drain-hose?).

I didn't think you could deep rinse in the Creda round-type one - I thought they had open spin mounts with a little skirt of plastic to deflect the water...I must be wrong!

Jeff - I do sometimes machine-wash wool, generally in the Zanussi h-axis toploader (the Hotpoint also has an intermittent gentle action wool setting), but I prefer to handwash. The Hotpoint top-loader ( a GE filter-flo in miniature) will kick into a five minute spin cycle straight away for spin-alone cycles but the Zanussi takes a few minutes to distribute. When I had the Bosch front-loader it would take about 25 minutes (!) to do a stand-alone spin cycle, if it even got there - more often than not it would fail to find a satisfactory balance and just abort the cycle - so annoying!

Al - the Hotpoint spin dryer with the timer didn't have an 'autorinse' function like the Supermatic dexluxe, just a timer that said 'rinse' at about the two minute (of a total of four I think) point, so one filled the machine with the lid open, and the set the timer for a short spin long enough to empty the tub, so as you say just like the Supermatic plus, with an added timer.

D
 
Oovah Spinnarinse

Hello David

how much of a rush are you to get one? only i have a Spinnarinse that i am happy to move on, it is the same as the one in Mikes picture, it works but the aluminium trim is a bit tarnished (not the best material to use with water etc)

Gary
 
Ringers

oh I see the cracken has woken up then! that will teach you to drive to liverpool and then come home in the early hours.

Now look ere this ere oovah spinnah has dun low milage only one careful owner its a peach im tellin yerr, what do you mean the top and bottom are different shades of white and theres a welding seam around the middle i ope you aint tryin ta say issa ringer, this was a Grattan excloosif not like your cheap ole kays one
 
Got it!

Thanks to all who came up with suggestions and help - I've got the late model Hoover that was on ebay and will collect it tomorrow!

Ta (especially to Gary for his offer)

David :-)
 
Hoover Spin a Rinse

Congratulation on the spinner David, well worth getting it and you can try it and see, just been talking to John and will sort out a Hotpoint for you to try etc, Hotpoint is quieter but you cant beat the rattle of the Hoover, and the hotpoint spins the fastest at 3,100, never fathomed why the spinrinses spin slower than the twinnies etc

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Got it!

Hi guys

It's home - and outside it looks tidy (pics to follow when I find the camera). It seemed to go fine to start with, but then started to make a loud squealing noise - any ideas Oovaah experts?

D :-)

PS - Mathew - can you text me your mobile no - I've lost it...ta!
 
Thank God it went to a good home!

Phew!

Congrats David on a lovely little purchase.
Life wouldnt be simple if things worked out of the box, so I am sure that the squealing noise will be just one of those niggles that will soon get sorted.

Looks great visually - roll on the photos!

Paul
 
squeeling spinner

Hello David could just be lack of use, sometimes dried up powder deposits can build up on the shaft, try it with water in it to lube up the shaft a bit :-)
 
Sadly not family photos

Mike

The picture was taken in 1995 as an appliance collectoir I was introduced to in Sheffield, the first time I actually came across someone else with that same interest. I snapped a few pictures, on that occasion of items I had not seen for a long time. Here is the other washer pic I took then, amother one definatly on the "want" list

Al

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last of the twosomes

Hi, had a great afternoon with David and Richard, the new hoover spinarinse, gave me the nudge to both visit Davids new country retreat and to pair up my W3590 with the corresponding spinner.

Spent saturday evening oiling everything, changing all those perished hoses and a clean and waxing up, so have a couple of photos you may be interested in seeing.

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pride before the fall

so filled up and a short wash of some towels, before further heating up to about 70c as davids thermometer showed, then start the wash and screatching noise, the pump tyre had softend with the heat and come off, a quick repair didn't work but it kept on working for the rest of the wash, though not sounding healthy. But panic not, just climbed into the back room and found a replacent within 30 seconds, so all will be working properly very soon.

Sufficed to say the spinarinse worked perfectly, both rinsing and spinning, and yes the tub cover was in place whislt the tub was emptied.

Thanks for a fun afternoon David, now back to hand washing those woolies.

Mathew

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Twosomes

What a great pair they make, good fun to operate and use, i might be wrong but didnt thhey have some type of clamp that kept them together or are my memories to faded

Sounds fun a mini get together

Good fot Mat
 
Bendix 7147

Hi Al.

Love the photo of the Bendix 7147. My Gran had the same machine, use to love sitting in front of the door watching it wash. After that came the 7147B.

Paul
 
Very welcome visitors

Hi to all

We had a very pleasant afternoon here in the sticks - once 'he who must be obeyed' had disappeared to watch a film, we set to getting the two-some up and running, and indeed they did work very neatly (give or take a rather noisy pump wheel). Gary - the 'twosome' did come with an optional 'bridge' but i haven't ever seen one...we just splashed all over the floor instead!!

Thanks to Mathew and Richard for coming over - leisurely lunch on veranda in great sunshine, and much talk about the latest news!

By the way, in the back-ground of the pic, you can see the tiny laundry room - from the left, the Belfast sink, the Zanussi top-loader and the Hotpoint 9605

David
 

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