Zanussi Turbodry.

[newwave1]

Hey folks,
I've just bought myself a Zanussi FL series washer/dryer late 80s early 90's im sure not which yet! A bargain at £10! located near my grandmother...so i can innocently say i was in the area

Heres a pic..i'm off to fetch it either today or tomorrow!

Darren

 

[robm]

Great news Darren. I have left you a message. You'll have to let me know how you get on with it. I guess it dates from the late 80's. I wonder if it still has the super quiet Zanussi induction motor.

Rob

 

[aquarius1984]

The year for this machine IIRC is around 1988/9.

Give aways are the bent shaped door catch handle and the bar dials.

 

[lavamat_jon]

Darren... I'm guessing this is a road trip coming up? .

Jon

 

[newwave1]

Absalutely. Tho it needs to be collected tomorrow.....the guys in abit of a rush cuz the propertys bein sold. i'm not complainin! lol means i get it quicker!

Its interestin to see one of these zanussis with more than 2 options!

Darren

 

[dubstar85]

Woo!

Looking forward to seeing it in action! =D

 

[newwave1]

Wooo were back from our roadtrip! Jon & i got to this tiny little granny flat...One careful lady owner by the looks of things!

The lady who sold it to us was waiting for us in this empty granny house looking bored out of her tree.

We walked into to see the zanussi standing proud and clean ready to go. Firstly we had to disconnect it, which proved a little tricky as nothing had been disconnected is years you'd think.

We then had the task of lifting it to and in my car, it was slightly heavy for my small frame but we got it there.

Now then. The drive home was eventful lol. it slipped around and banged abit but we got it back in one piece.

Were now having a cup of tea and a chat before we take it out my car and put it next to the others.

I'll be back with an update, description and pictures and maybe a video in a while!

Ciaoooo

Darren

After abit of pursuation, we got it unhooked and lifted it to my car....It wa

 

[l86810]

lol sounds like fun!!!

YAYNESS for pictures and a video

 

[newwave1]

Okey pokey. Pics on their way up and a video. were doin some coloured towels, which should clean up nicely with Ariel sensitive.

The machine is 1000rpm, very clean and very quiet too.

Okay without further ado.

Darren & jon.

 

[newwave1]

pic 2

 

[newwave1]

control panel

 

[newwave1]

detergent drawer. sorry for the slight blur lol

 

[newwave1]

full view

 

[newwave1]

Right vids will be up later tonight once i've gotten footage of the whole cycle.

Darren

 

[newwave1]

Just a few facts for you all.

This machine is actually a turn of the decade model from 1990.

It has a heavy and solid build quality.

Its spins at 1000/450rpm

The mixed wash button increases the wash time.

The quickwash is really fast and mananged to mooch through 4 rinses in 15minutes! With interm spins!

The auto dry/halfload- Cuts out a rinse as its meant to be for halfload and obviously goes straight through to the drying cycle

Jon and myself had a smashin afternoon we ran two loads through it;

Firstly we did some coloured towels on a cotton 60 with the quickwash button! Which gives a nice wash action. This machine doesn't mess around it does what it has to then moves on. I like it.

It did a nice low level wash, and dilution rinse. Surprizingly it did a spin after the wash! followed by 4 high level rinses with spins in between. Then a nice long 6minute final spin at 1000rpm!

We tried the dryer too which got very hot and is in perfect working order.

Then we did a 50degree minimum iron cycle. Which consisted of a wash level up to the rim of the drum. Which jon and i thought was made of enamel!?!

Then 3 high level rinses, a rinse hold and a short 450rpm spin!

It does a few minutes of anticrease at the end of the cotton and synthetic spins.

The motor is a brush motor, but an exceptionally quiet one at that!

There is a slight bit of rust under the detergent dispenser but the rest of the machine body is in great condition!

No complaints from me! This is for keeps!

I'm just uploading videos as i type this!

Darren

 

[newwave1]

First vid! Mainwash on synthetic 50! You'll notice it does this odd tumble pattern of tumbling, stopping and carrying on then carryin on in the same direction then reversing and doing it again! lol very strange. fun to watch tho!

 

[newwave1]

Rinse vid! Nice high level rinse

 

[robm]

Thank you and congratulations

Hi Darren

Wow what a find! You never know what you are getting until you get it home and it sounds like this has been a great find. I love the early Zanussi's, much quieter than later machines.

Thanks for the vids. It'll be great to see it spin.

Take care

Rob

 

[lavamat_jon]

Darren, great pics! Was a nice machine and actually quicker than I expected, I always remembered Zanussis being quite slow for some reason. The spin was interesting too... the other Zanussi's I've seen from this era just seemed to jump straight up rather than distributing.

Has a lot of features, and I have to say it was built very well, especially as I was taking the majority of the weight when I was lifting it with Darren the weakling ;-). Seems to be in good working order too... the tumbling was surprising though .

Darren, I don't think you could have found any better replacement for the Logic . You definitely can see teh difference though in the way cycles are carried out, compared to the way English machines worked in this era. Can definitely see why these machines lasted anyway.

Great find Darren!

Jon