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This is one of the most complete old communal washroom / drying rooms I've come across. Washing machine, mangle, water heater, butler sink. Drying cabinets as well.
taking advantage of the fact that i was sick, she decided to help with the washing. caught before she shut the door and turned the machine on, so no cell phones were laundered, thank goodness.
Once you get the front off, you're confronted with the discovery that for something that gets things clean, a washer is FILTHY. That ring of dirt is absolutely unreachable while the washer is assembled, and virtually unreachable at this point. I couldn't get in there to clean it out, so I'm pretending I don't know it is there.
To remove the top of the washer, you have to remove the two bolts marked in the notes on the photo.
(These notes are for my reference. Repairing your appliances can be dangerous. You can hurt yourself or damage your appliance. Be sure you know what you're doing, be careful, and don't blame me if things go wrong.)
This really annoys me, a washing machine dumped beside Bow of Fife level crossing by some morons. The effort to get it here could just as easily have got it to the recycling center which is only two miles away.
I was given it for free! I had to remove the top and then the control panel on the front, in order to get it into the bathroom.
Launderettes are quite nostalgic for me, so when I found one open and empty in the old part of Paignton, I had to go in and take a picture or two.
Nothing was automatic. You had to be there constantly to avoid wasting enormous quantities of water and to do the next manual step.
1. Load clothes and soap.
2. Turn on water and watch for a few minutes because if you didn't then when it filled to the top it wouldn't stop and the excess water would just drain away until you manually shut it off.
3. Run washing cycle which spun the clothes in such a way that anything with long sleeves was likely to get holes in the armpits.
4. Drain water and switch clothes from the left compartment into the right spinning basket compartment.
5. Run spin cycle.
6. Switch clothes from the R compartment to the left
7. Refill washtub with water. Don't forget to watch it so you don't waste a ton of water.
8. Run the rinse cycle.
9. Drain water and switch clothes from the left compartment into the right spinning basket compartment.
10. Run spin cycle.
11. Take clothes out. You're done! (Except for hanging them to dry and putting away.) And to make it worse, by spinning instead of agitating, this machine will rip big holes in the armpit of any longsleeve garment unless you take the additional step of putting things into individual mesh bags.
Advertising Agency: Publicis, New York, USA
Chief Creative Officer: Rob Feakins
Creative Director: Bertrand Garbassi
Art Director: Brian Choi
Copywriter: Caroline Lee
Photographer: Li-han Lin
Published: March 2008
Ada (Ajax Domestic Appliances) were makers of washing machines and spin driers in Halifax
1950 Became public company.
1960 Acquired by Philips Electrical