awesome vid!, thats a hell of a lot of floppy disks!, I am lucky to see 1 or 2 of them around now. Looks like that drive plate was not long for this world either, lots of corrosion!. good thing you decided not to replace the door seal, could have been a waste of time and money if the plate rotted out 6 months later!
Lol! Last time I saw that many floppies was in the archives at work. We had to put them all through an industrial shredder, not quite as fun as this...
Haha, floppy-disk wash cycle. :-D It looks like the spider on the back of the drum couldn't handle the load though. I was half-expecting the fixings on the drum to the spider to shear off though, not for the spider to go crunch right in the middle like that!! Oh well. Time to put the motor on "crank-it-up-till-it-pops" volts.....Until it goes....*POP* :-D Thanks for showing, -BoomBoxDeluxe.
actually an old washing machine like that with controllable RPMs would make a really good centrifuge for separating things could probably rig it to work with a dimmer switch
Ahh yes, I've always wondered just how handy those door glasses would be, I use old Oven Door Glass as a Kitchen Bench Chopping board, Much stronger than those store bought Chinese ones! Good Video
NO! Floppy Disks = Sony Mavica camera film. 8'C Format them to DMF and you can get a surprising amount of data on them. Those disks are essential for MS-DOS programs and bootable hard drive diagnostics, even for NTFS. I still use them and they all still work, even my 25-40 year old 5 1/4" mini-floppy disks. They don't make these anymore! :c
Doesn't the motor have a crap little frequency inverter to run it? If so did you remove it and let it run at 50Hz or is the inverter being run off the variac?
From the office, we had a load of disks to get shot of and they needed destroying in case there was confidential data or licensed software on there (unlimited user licence for Netware 5.1, anyone?). The disks filled a holdall and all ended up in the machine, after which the bashed up remains were split open for disposal; plastics in the bin, metals in the recycling, floppy media in the paper shredder.
lmfao ! mate there's nothing like a washer destruction !! that washer drum was shoddily made!! it pisses me off how manufacturers can get away with making cheep equipment! like that inverter andy' was on about!! its either there way or no way!!! wheres my hammer!! thankyou mate for sharing another great video ;-)) THUMBS UP*
The RPM counter went loopy when the rotary encoder sawed the photointerrupter in half. The motor's still going to get a lot more than 270 volts, don't worry, but it won't be through rewiring (and ballasting) the variac, it'll be stepped up using a 3.3kVA 110V tool transformer wired as a 240V-to-350V autotransformer. Should get about 390-400V out of it.
It lasted a while, but obviously not built to last judging by all that corrosion. A friend of mine had the slightly faster version of this (because her dad worked at the Hoover factory where they were made), that packed in before mine.
Well Hoover is a company primarily known for making vacuum cleaners, I didn't even know that they made washers until watching this. It's kind of like the George Carlin piece about brand identification, like would anyone buy Goodyear pancakes or Raid Feminine Hygene spray? Hoover is a vacuum cleaner company, when I think of washing machines I think of Maytag or Whirlpool.
Cast iron spiders = way better than aluminium in new machines.. Your one was from alu, Miele machines before the 800/900 series had cast iron spiders FYI.
Can't do that, secure data destruction was the order of the day. After this bit of fun the disks were cracked open, the magnetic media shredded and the metal bits (spring, flap and centre hub) thrown in the recycling bin. Sorry :(
Very funny. The drum sheared off (I'm from germany, hopefully you know, what I mean)? I've never seen anything like that and I do a lot of nonsense with washers. By the way: we're doing the same type of vids, like and subscribe to the same channels and have the same real life job. LOL!
Good call, I'll have to keep an eye out for some of that :) If I cook pasta I tend to cook a fair amount of it, they're ideal for that. Alternatively you could use it as a sweetie bowl, seeing as they're also found in washing machines made by Candy :)
@hitachi088 "wow this guy needed help on how to wireup the motor? what a noob." AT WHAT POINT EXACTLY did I say I was given help wiring up the motor? I was given advice on how to bypass the protection systems BY wiring up direct to the motor, nobody taught me how to wire it up, the labels are only on the wires because they're all the same colour. A bit more attention-paying and a bit less arrogance and you might learn something.
Office clear-out, they were given to me to be "disposed of". After their run-in with the washing machine they were all dismantled, the metal shutters and hubs recycled and the magnetic disks cross-shredded.
"That's one, that's the Corby Trouser Press" "ooooh, that's one again, trouser press has gone" "And one again, hang on lemme check... yes, the producer says you've won it again" "Never mind, it's gone..." Shit, that's four darts.
Iron rusts, aluminium doesn't, until you get to the world of washing machines and washing powders :) Not an easy thing to replace either, it'd be a total stripdown job.
