Zanussi Timeline Jetsystem ZWF1451 makes a return!

[sadose]

Well...looks like it's fate. After my mother bought this machine last October, it was destined for high temperature washing repeatedly what with her job, doing at least 6 loads a day, every day. When i moved out, dear mummy couldn't manage to work out how to use the machine so it got passed on to my aunt, who has had 3 months use of it, washing for a family of five and therefore doing 3-4 loads in it each and every day. Well, perhaps my auntie's family couldn't handle the technology of the machine either...They want to throw the Zanussi away and replace it with a 7kg Ariston....THROW THE ZANUSSI AWAY!!! I think not...So once again I am the priveliged owner of this wonderful, hard working machine. I brought it home in the back of the car and got straight to connecting it up to the plumbing... I have now done 6 loads in it and I am so glad to have this machine back. Such thorough washing and rinsing. Apart from a slight bit of soldering and the refitting of a little tube underneath it has required no other attention, this machine has seen its way through nearly 1800 wash loads, even though its only 10 months old, and still works like it did the day i took out of the cardboard packaging.... See the link below for some videos.

http://www,putfile.com/sadose

 

[sadose]

Silly boy.....

I have put the correct link on this time!

http://www.putfile.com/sadose

 

[newwave1]

Awwwh Reunited! glad your happy! hope ur aunt is with her 7kg ariston....ahem.

great videos!!! gees that zanussi's had a hard life! lol. n much more to come hopefully!

D

 

[seamusuk]

According to Miele.....

5000 loads is 20 years average use!- 250 loads a year.

Which makes this "7 years old"

More than average Zanussi lifespan lol )

Seamus

 

[tomturbomatic]

Thank you very much for making videos of all of these phases of operation available to us. Please excuse my ignorance here, but I watched the video said to be the distribution after wash. I saw the drain (long). Then I saw the drum start turning fast enough for the load to fly past the window then stopping and doing it in reverse direction. I did not see anything after each of these "distributions?" except something like a cut to the drum not moving and the load sitting in the bottom. Was any actual spinning done before the rinse fill?

My Miele W1918 drains from wash, tumbles a bit, sits just draining, does two lame a** attempts at brief bits of spinning, sits and drains some more and then fills for the first rinse. This is better than the old Miele where the half-a** attempt at this sort of spin did not occur until after the 2nd rinse.

 

[sadose]

The distribution...

After the wash when the rinse+ setting is activated the machine behaves differently, the machine just tumbles back and forth 3 times before moving onto the rinse whilst pumping. If rinse+ is not used then full distribution will occur (throwing the load to the side of the drum) followed by a 2 minute spin at 1000rpm. Any further queries I am happy to reply to.

 

[sadose]

To add to that

Most older Italian made machines used to distribute in this fashion (tumbling back and forth) before the spin rather than a continuous movement that throws everything to the drum walls like modern machines do.

Old zanussi's did it this way as did older Ariston models.

 

[nickuk]

Hi Sadose

Yes, older Ariston / Candy / Zanussi / Bendix etc etc did used to distribute like this. Why? The indiction motors at that time could not be controlled precisely enough to get a distribute speed - they were either on wash or spin mode. I think this may have been cost related but I'm not sure. I have just learned that modern induction motors can do pretty much anything a brush motor always could but I don't know how, my knowledge is out of date. Of course the machines which did distribute in one long segment were Hoover, Hotpoint, later Indesit, later Philips and other machines which used brush motors. I think.