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[tooSavvy]

@meowmeow.. Bloody Aced it M9 🎯

*credit respect from an inveterate Scrappy Scrounger = IMP re builder 😉

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[Somerset Suffolk]

2 hours ago, meowmeow said:

Also - drove to Dover to collect the washing machine (whole point of buying this car), chucked it in the boot and it looked tiny - so much so I think it might've fitted in the Golf anyway...

 

Oooh twin tub ! remember ours lived under the breakfast table and would then be dragged out and put by the kitchen sink ! on the spin cycle it could cover ground pretty quickly and was quite scary ... when you were 4 years old - for some strange reason, after it was replaced with a modern front loader, dad kept it in the seller for years ! was still there when they moved in 1992 - happy memories ! 

[meowmeow]

1 hour ago, Somerset Suffolk said:

on the spin cycle it could cover ground pretty quickly and was quite scary ... when you were 4 years old - for some strange reason

yeah i'm shoving it in that corner in the hopes it won't try to go anywhere - just got to sort the water supply so i don't have to move it to the sink every time i want to use it

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, meowmeow said:

yeah i'm shoving it in that corner in the hopes it won't try to go anywhere - just got to sort the water supply so i don't have to move it to the sink every time i want to use it

Can I ask why? Very inefficient compared to a modern machine.

[meowmeow]

9 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Can I ask why? Very inefficient compared to a modern machine.

few reasons:

1) the flat is very small with not great airflow, and the spin dry speed of the twin tub is much faster (max 3000rpm) than that of a front-loading machine, so less drying when hanging up (in theory)

2) much lighter to carry up the stairs as no concrete block inside

3) i hate buying things that i can't figure out how to repair myself

4) also it was very cheap

 

[High Jetter]

38 minutes ago, meowmeow said:

few reasons:

1) the flat is very small with not great airflow, and the spin dry speed of the twin tub is much faster (max 3000rpm) than that of a front-loading machine, so less drying when hanging up (in theory)

2) much lighter to carry up the stairs as no concrete block inside

3) i hate buying things that i can't figure out how to repair myself

4) also it was very cheap

 

Valid. Yes, spin speed 2 to 3x higher than a FL. Much higher water consumption though. Respect for re-using & improving.

[Bmwdumptruck]

9 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Valid. Yes, spin speed 2 to 3x higher than a FL. Much higher water consumption though. Respect for re-using & improving.

Very very labour intensive too.  I can remember my mum basically having a whole day every week doing the washing when we were kids.  It was quite a chore.  When mum n dad divorced an automatic was the first thing she bought herself.  

[Missy Charm]

6 hours ago, Bmwdumptruck said:

Very very labour intensive too.  I can remember my mum basically having a whole day every week doing the washing when we were kids.  It was quite a chore.  When mum n dad divorced an automatic was the first thing she bought herself.  

Indeed.  I've never used a twin tub, but did have to use our automatic 'as' a twin tub when something went wrong with it -- had to unload mid-cycle into a bowl, manually drain, re-load and then use the computer override to force a spin -- machine is pushing thirty but was top-of-the-range for its time!  

Wet clothes are bleeding heavy.  Wet towels, as in utterly saturated items, even more so.  

@meowmeow: was traditional to perform the twin tub transfer process with wooden tongs.  My grandfather used to do it.  Parents never had to as were launderette users until they got a proper automatic back in the eighties; father's mother was truly poor so washing day consisted of tub, mangle and twenty Woodbines.  All the best  .

[jim89]

11 minutes ago, Missy Charm said:

Indeed.  I've never used a twin tub, but did have to use our automatic 'as' a twin tub when something went wrong with it -- had to unload mid-cycle into a bowl, manually drain, re-load and then use the computer override to force a spin -- machine is pushing thirty but was top-of-the-range for its time!  

Wet clothes are bleeding heavy.  Wet towels, as in utterly saturated items, even more so.  

@meowmeow: was traditional to perform the twin tub transfer process with wooden tongs.  My grandfather used to do it.  Parents never had to as were launderette users until they got a proper automatic back in the eighties; father's mother was truly poor so washing day consisted of tub, mangle and twenty Woodbines.  All the best  .

Don't forget the dolly !

[Dan302]

11 minutes ago, Missy Charm said:

father's mother was truly poor so washing day consisted of tub, mangle and twenty Woodbines.  All the best  .

I think it would be cheaper to buy a washer than 20 cigarettes nowadays!

[meowmeow]

16 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Much higher water consumption though

 

6 hours ago, Bmwdumptruck said:

Very very labour intensive too.

These two issues should hopefully be offset somewhat by the fact that I'm not on a water meter, and i don't have many clothes...

 

31 minutes ago, Missy Charm said:

@meowmeow: was traditional to perform the twin tub transfer process with wooden tongs.  My grandfather used to do it. 

Yep, i have the tongs somewhere though they're a bit flimsy so may need repairs

[Somerset Suffolk]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1692381435223119

 

bloody hell I've been down a massive twin tub rabbit hole ! 

 

sounds like an English Electric Lightening on start up 

[Somerset Suffolk]

@Missy Charm

These live under the sink in my utility room/workshop ....

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Nobody has mentioned the threat that the spin dryer would “rip your arm right off” if you went near it before it had stopped . A threat to my life as real as quicksand and a scorpion sting  when I was a kid in the Black Country, in the 60’s.

[Bmwdumptruck]

22 hours ago, meowmeow said:

 

These two issues should hopefully be offset somewhat by the fact that I'm not on a water meter, and i don't have many clothes...

If you’re on your own and paying full water rates you are seriously overpaying.  Even with a family of four we were literally saving 50% on normal water rates with a meter.  Now there’s just two of us it’s even cheaper.  

[Bmwdumptruck]

4 hours ago, Somerset Suffolk said:

@Missy Charm

These live under the sink in my utility room/workshop ....

Exactly the same tongs mum had and that machine looks identical to ours….😂

[jim89]

15 hours ago, Somerset Suffolk said:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1692381435223119

 

bloody hell I've been down a massive twin tub rabbit hole ! 

 

sounds like an English Electric Lightening on start up 

😂 That's posh me & me mam used to pour washing up bowls of clean water in for the rinses

Imagine the elfin safty flap about that door with no interlock ⚡⚡⚡😂

[Bmwdumptruck]

1 minute ago, jim89 said:

😂 That's posh me & me mam used to pour washing up bowls of clean water in for the rinses

Imagine the elfin safty flap about that door with no interlock ⚡⚡⚡😂

My Nan had separate tub machines, a washer and a spinner. The washer had a mangle attachment too.  Just right for little boys fingers….  But I seem to recall the spinner had a lid that operated the switch, so to stop it you had to open the lid, leaving it to slow from full spin speed with the lid open.  Get that past H+S nowadays!!  

[jim89]

46 minutes ago, Bmwdumptruck said:

My Nan had separate tub machines, a washer and a spinner. The washer had a mangle attachment too.  Just right for little boys fingers….  But I seem to recall the spinner had a lid that operated the switch, so to stop it you had to open the lid, leaving it to slow from full spin speed with the lid open.  Get that past H+S nowadays!!  

Aye I remember the little spin thing with a water spout just high enough to get a washing up bowl under it😂 if you just threw things in it would often do a dance around sloshing slippy suds water all over.... But only the once mind 🤬😂

That FB clip had similar but built in with a tap to supply fresh water ❗😯😯

We had a tumble dryer from when I was a little kid until my mam moved out after my dad passed a few years ago.. we had to get it out & away, but it still worked & was used occasionally still.... Don't think it ever got repaired... 😯 Imagine that genZ .... 🙄