What about this for a distribution spin - UNBELIEVABLE!!

[Bearpeter]

Please bear with this movie.... be patient and i think you will be entertained!!! The rinse looks to be High level, which is great but just wait till the drain and spin before the main spin... You COULD NOT put this machine under a worktop with the way it moves from side to side when unbalanced. I loved this movie.... and thingk there are more if you check out the right hand side of the page....
Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did!

 

[hoovermatic]

I must be on wheels!! Can you imagine the poor fitted kitchen would be destroyed and in a pile at the end of that spin but it got there in the end! My mum's first automatic, a Bendix from about 1980 used to do what the repair man called a snatch spin, in as much as it went from tumbling to spin with little or no distribution as such. It was not a bolt down machine and certainly wasn't as 'mobile' as this one!

 

[DADoES]

OMG. That's wild! I kept thinking, it's gonna give up now .. now ... Now ..... NOW!

 

[vintagesearch]

lol it sucks its like a ragular toploader! then i thought FL's never go off balance or even make that much niose this one is louder than our old toploader but, still fun though maybe this is an older model.

 

[pulsator]

Judging by the fact that the iner tub doesn't seem to move, I'd guess the suspension is in the wheels, someone was tellin me about this type of thing at the 2002 Convention....

 

[exploder321]

OMG

 

[Bearpeter]

Not the only one then....!

I thought maybe I was just being stupid thinking this machine was weird....I was not!!
Hoovermatic, I thought the same about this machine and the poor kitchen built around it!!!!
Syaing that, i would love one of these!!!! So long as i could put it in a padded laundry room to avoid damage!!!!

 

[vivalalavatrice]

Washers should be GOOD levelled...

What a BORE!! Yes my dears, I saw a very boring distributing action...

I think it's thanks to that the machine seems not standing well! First I suppose is not good levelling on the floor, then just that kind of machine (Eudora), has got a very long distributing action after what you can see a quite standing spinning cycle.
Then is not only the countertop that could be demaged by the wawsher "dance", although that I suppose that the besided cabinets would help too the machine to stay stopped!

Did I forget something? ...

Obviusoly you cannot istall it under a countertop... there are the control knobs there on the top of the machine! LOL

Goodbye
Diomede

 

[Bearpeter]

Welll.......

Us Brits and USA guys loved it!!! Very interesting. I would love to see an instruction book for this machine if anyone can direct me to a website??

 

[newwave1]

I remember seeing a thread about one of these not to long ago. I find that spin interesting at first but gets slightly irritating if it was mine i'd be shouting "SPIN ALREADY!" lol. The reason for this is those machines don't have suspension legs. they is a weight that acts like a balance sensor. excuse the terrible explaination its hard to put into words!, but thats the reason why it takes so long to spin! I do like the rinse tumbles, long and frequent! Very nice!

Darren

 

[fredriksam]

These are sold in Sweden as Kenny. Here is a video where you see the balance sensor. The machine only spins when thers almost no vibration at all. And these machines have no suspension legs. They wouldnt fit in such a small machine.

Notice. The machine in this video below is slightly older but they work the same.

 

[lederstiefel1]

Eudora

What a stupid technology to distribute the washing inside the drum....
Never seen that in a German washer!
Ours start always slowly, getting faster, and, if they don't spin smoothly, stop and go on for several turns in both directions before they try again to start with the spinning!
Only very old machines (Constructa) start with the spinning directly but then with the whole lot of water still in and speed up whilst water is pumped out more and more. But mostely these very old machines had to be fixed on the ground floor to avoid a wandering arround as these machines had no balancing system in yet and only made 300rpm!
Ralf

 

[chestermikeuk]

Eudora

Its interesting how we have different and personal opinions...I quite like that distribution spin, at least there are no long waits in between....I wonder if it did make a difference to the creasing???..perhaps not due to the low spin, 700??? did you say...

What is that Ticking pecker thingy??, is it the OOB switch??, I hope that switch, solenoid & pressure stat are firmly mounted, they look quite precarious there, I could imagine lots of sparks if they came loose whilst spinning...LOL

Mike

 

[mrboilwash]

Eudora is an Austrian brand and apparently not very successful outside from Austria. I recall extremly bad reviews in our German consumers magazine, because they destroyed themselves frequently.
The current spacesaving models are only 3kg capacity and according to the website (www.eudora.at) they have transit fittings. So I guess they have a new kind of suspension, now.
BTW the poor fitted kitchen rather looks like a basement to me.

 

[sparkcymru]

Wat a bizzare machine! Great fun though to watch. Thanks for posting

Steve

 

[tomturbomatic]

Did someone else tell about weird machines that started a spin from a dead stop? It seems like if it were tumbling when it went into the spin(s), the load would be more evenly spread out. I can't be sure how much the machine moved because it seems that the camera moved also.

KEVEN: Is this like those top load tumblers that would shatter the fine china fixture in the bathroom?

One thing about it, if it took this much of a production to achieve a spin, it probably did not do much spinning after wash and betweeen the rinses.

 

[logixx]

"I can't be sure how much the machine moved because it seems that the camera moved also."

I'd say it moves at least an inch or more. Look at the poor washer standing next to the Eudora. :/

 

[oxydolfan1]

What was the name of the washers in the DDR (E. Germany) before the Wende (wall came down)?

 

[westytoploader]

Wow, that is too cool. They look like fun machines. I like the sliding-pulley system for the spin...similar to what the GE Combo has except that: the motor isn't directly attached to it, it doesn't go that fast, and the pulley moves apart for spin instead of together. What I didn't see was how the motor pivoted upward and the pulley slid together; when the GE shifts into spin, a small gearmotor winds up a chain and pulls a lever down, putting more tension on the belts and moving the pulleys apart.