Zerowatt SpazioTOP

[vivalalavatrice]

Hi guys!

This is not a really completely restoration but... found the baby ouside the dumping zone just with the effort to do to replace the drum bearing and the pulley.

How could I left it overthere considering that is a 60cm wide Top loading orizontal axi!?!?

Here you are some pics....

 

[vivalalavatrice]

Shot of controlpanel

Timer with 3 sector (cotton, synt, delicates) and the thermostate.

Pushbuttons: on/off, rinsehold, nospin, halfload

 

[vivalalavatrice]

Interior

Just to be cleaned-up

 

[vivalalavatrice]

Here's the damn!

The backside bearing completely gone off!!!!!
And conseguently the pulley brake!

 

[vivalalavatrice]

The faster disassebling I did

40 minutes to take tue tubes off!!!!

 

[vivalalavatrice]

DONE!

Just few hours then to reassembly completely everything and the machine is always ok with just 60euros of repair parts

 

[vivalalavatrice]

The metamorphosys

Now I looking for modify the wiring in order to add a second inlet valve for hotwater saw that the timer is just equipped to manage electrically to inlet contatct but there's an "electric bridge" to avoid this and make the washer go with cold fill only!

 

[hoovermatic]

I have never seen an h-axis that size before. I'm sure it is just my imagination but the drum capacity looks like it might be bigger than the usual slimline h-axis machines. What capacity is it?

 

[foraloysius]

Interesting machine Diomede! Well done repairing it!

 

[funguy10]

I though that was a dishwasher! Very Interesting machine even if it is the "unwatchable" TLHA type.

 

[vivalalavatrice]

Thanks all...

The concepts of this machine was to start by a common Front Loading design machine, swapping from the circular windowed lid in front to the top opening lid, keeping the same exterior shaping of the correspondint front loading models

Zerowatt, wich now is a disappeared brand leaving the place to Hoover which produces the same design models, first started to reduce the depth of its machines. The range has got the standard 60cm deep, then 54cm, 48cm, 42cm, 33cm, where these two last measures allow a 4,5Kg of load.

This models named SpazioTOP derive from the 42cm deep FL model, but eliminating the common rubber seal and other components of the front opening apparatus the drums could became bigger to gain 1/2kg so to reach the 5 kilos standard.

The other TLHA machine of the range are like you've probably seen yet around Europe, 40cm wide but 60cm deep.

I love TLHA but if the drum rotate like FL manner I'm happier :-DD

 

[toggleswitch]

Very interesting. Thank you for showing the surgery! Wonderful machine

 

[passatdoc]

viva la WD-40!!

WD-40 (I see a can of it in your fifth photo) was invented and is manufactured in my home town of San Diego, California.

Excellent surgery and repair job, you are to be congratulated. What a wonderful machine.

I expected to see more vegetables next to the wall: tomatoes and zucchini. (Americans think that people in Italy grow tomatoes in every tiny little spot).

I was an exchange student in Holland in the 1970s and my host family had a top loading horizontal axis machine. I don't know who made the machine, I was too young to know anything about machines or appliances then.

 

[funguy10]

Vivalalavatrice, if you are so intersted in TLHA washers why don't you import a Staber System 2000 washer?

 

[zodawash]

Zerowatt

Very good. I remember when Zerowatt was introduced in the UK I think around 1982. Currys advertised them on tv and they were here for a little while with a range of washers and dryers. Not seen any on ebay turn up yet but they were nice design machines a bit different.

Steve

 

[MrX]

funguy10

TLHA Washing machines are fairly widely available in many parts of Europe. (They're quite rare however, in the UK and Ireland but then we drive on the wrong side of the road, use funny plugs and insist on weighing ourselves in Stone.. so, I wouldn't take us as typical)

They're actually quite popular in France in particular.

E.g. here's a Miele toploader