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Originally Posted by SMHarman
A friend of mine had a Zanussi whose concrete counterweight exploded over the kitchen floor. Poor readymix apparantly.
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In the early 70's Hotpoint ( who I worked for at the time ) imported Zanussi made machines that where rebranded as Hotpoint, this was done to keep the brand in the shops whilst a major factory rebuild was in progress. The only real problem with these machines was that they had two models with spin speeds of 380 & 570 rpm. At the time the current Hotpoint machine the 1600 would spin at 1100, well before any other manufacturer achieved this.
The Zanussi machine had its concrete block on the top of the drum at that time.
I went to a call in Chadderton, walked in and said to the customer, "don't tell me, your machine is jumping all over the place" . " Brilliant" she said, "how did you know that without me saying anything". I told here that I had noticed that the concrete weight from the machine was propping her gate open. They had removed it thinking it was the transit packing.
