Swan STM201N Vintage Teasmade with a Traditional Dial Clock, Rapid Boil and Alarm, 600ml, 850W, White

Spoilt for many by ergonomic issues. Scored 0 to 5, serious to noteworthy. 1) The manual. eg No mention of how to change lamp bulb. No mention of importance of setting tea pot handle forwards as shown on cover picture. Spout only fits over small angle. null pointe. 2) The lamp. Still using 15 w pygmy bulb. On/Off switch needs hard push. Using one hand can push whole caboodle off table onto floor. null pointe. 3) Hinge to kettle cover seems flimsy. quatre pointe. 4) Alarm . Bleeper so boxed in you will not hear it unless awake. flashing blue light might attract attention. Bleeper auto stops after three minutes. null pointe f5) Tea pot. my sample the pot is a tight fit over the lip in the unit and needs a push to get it to sit firmly on its base. cinq pointe. 6) Tea pot lid. With a 30mm hole in it it is all but redundant. the lugs on the lid look fragile. The lid can be a little fiddly to fit and even more trouble to remove.. trois pointe. 7) Blue light. Far too bright at night. une pointe. 8) The Clock. Viewing angles badly set. Can only read time if eye level is above clock centre line. trois pointe. 9) The Clock. Restarts automatically from 12 when power is restored. Alarm setting lost. Why is it not radio controlled. trois pointe. 10) Time they had a voice operated version. Will Littlewoods (swan) take note of reviews? Not a snow flake in hells chance. I have owned several Swan Teasemades. The best died short of five years of daily use. Will this one do better? On taking the bottom cover off for a visual inspection this is what was seen. Loose wiring, the kettle separated from the clock and its back pack by a heat shield. The clock and its back pack are a single sub assembly with the push button switches and some logic and clock software. This assembly is clearly not intended to be replaceable. The labour cost would be prohibitive anyway. It essentially follows that the durability of this device depends heavily on the quality of this sub assembly.. The kettle has good fault protection. Some wires pass over a sharp edge on the heat shield. The mains cord is sleaved inside the unit but can get close to the kettle. But there is no evidence of any likely safety hazard. Any fault with the wiring external to the clock sub unit is repairable.. In summary the wiring is amateurish and I would not have passed it for production. Will this device be more durable? I think it has a good chance but be aware that any sub unit failure renders the device a write off.

Works fine. Clock is strangely not accurate and needs adjusting every couple of weeks. The teapot is not a good pourer but OK if you start slowly!! If you have a power failure the clock resets to 12.00 and must be reset. There is no measure for the water and suggest you find a suitable sized vessel to keep with the unit.

I bought this teasmade to go in my guest room. I remember when my mum had one as a child! I seem to remember it differently, as I thought it actually made the tea and had a jug for milk too. Regardless, here goes; It arrived as most Amazon Prime purchases do- in good time and in tip top condition. Easy to set up, though initially i thought it had a rubber footing missing... closer inspection of the box and it was found! The teasmade is effectively a hot water heater, with a timer, clock and light (which can be increased brightness or lowered). A little detachable tray sits atop the filling cap and can house a mug, sugar pot and a little jug of milk. I ran it through once and discarded the water to prime and clean the system of it's factory smells, and it has been used several times since. It does what you buy it for, and has been a lovely source of nostalgia for my guests who appreciate the independence of a cuppa when they feel like it.

I have had teasmades for the last 50 years to enjoy a morning cuppa in bed. Previous models (initially Goblin teasmade in 1972) lasted 17 years. My most recent teasmade before this purchase was a Swan compact teasmade, probably 15 years old, that still functions but recently started to tick so noisily that we decided to replace it. A few weeks ago, I took delivery of my first Swan Vintage teasmade. There was such poor quality control on this item. The hour and minute hands were not in synchrony such that when the minute hand was on 12, the hour hand was pointing to about 25 minutes to the full hour. The alarm was difficult to set, probably due to the lack of synchrony of the clock fingers. The teasmade made tea & the alarm went off on the first morning but almost an hour later than we wanted it. We adjusted the alarm setting and the next day, when the clock reached this time, the red light for tea & alarm function went out, the alarm only light stayed on & the teasmade did nothing - no tea nor alarm wake up. I contacted Swan & the lady in customer service informed me I must set the teasmade up just after 7pm the previous night if I wanted it to sound the alarm and make the tea at 6.50 am. the following morning as the teasmade works on a 12 hour cycle. In 50 years of successfully using a teasmade, I have usually set it around 11pm going to bed but instead I followed her instructions. I put water in the chamber, teabag in the pot, pot firmly positioned on its stand against the sensor and both switches pressed to the "set" position with red lights illuminated. Just 50 minutes later, the teasmade made the tea at almost 8pm the same evening so the advice I got from Swan was rubbish!! I contacted Amazon & returned this defective teasmade I had for less than a week & took delivery of a replacement one on 3rd August. Once again, the hour and minute fingers on the clock were not fully synchronised (have Swan abandoned all quality control for these China manufactured products?) but this time they were only 12 minutes out rather than 25 minutes. We made the required adjustments in setting the alarm for 6.30 am wanting it to go off at 6.50 am & this proved right. I set the teasmade at 11pm going to bed and at 6.50 am the next morning, we were woken with the alarm & a cup of tea. This worked perfectly for 3 days. Then on the 4th morning, when it reached 6.50 am, the red light for "alarm and tea" went out, the teasmade neither made any tea nor did the alarm go off, despite the second red light for alarm only still being pressed to the "set" position & illuminated. I pressed the combined tea and alarm switch down to the "tea now" position & it made tea so at least we had a drink but no alarm wake up. This has happened each day for the past three days, so now we are returning a second defective Swan vintage teasmade to Amazon for a refund and no longer wish to own such a poor quality item. To say we are bitterly disappointed is an understatement, especially given that in over 50 years we have only ever purchased 3 or 4 teasmade and always had a functioning product to wake us in the morning with a nice cup of tea. We have decided to revert back to our 15 years old noisy Swan Compact teasmade which at least sounds the alarm at the right time & makes a cup of tea, even though the very loud tick (which it only recently started to do) keeps us awake. We will buy ear plugs & enjoy a working teasmade. Would I recommend this product - definitely not. If you want to have this product as a non-functioning ornament at the side of the bed, then maybe purchase it on that understanding. Or if you are happy to have a product that might only work for a couple of days, then this is ideal for you.

Excellent teas made replacing our old one from 1995 Neat design and does job well Would recommend Quiet and blue light not intrusive

My original teasmade was bought from the UK and had sprung a leak. I was desperate to replace it - I use it daily to wake up to my hot pot of tea! Luckily I found it on Amazon, put in an order and it arrived promptly to Australia. (You do have to change the UK plug to an Australian plug to use) All in one piece including ceramic teapot and it works beautifully. Thank goodness!

Everything is just slightly awful about this product. They couldn't have made it any cheaper than it already is. They even duplicated the two knobs on the top, and put a sticker over the one that is meant for the brightness. The little pot came with a slightly broken lid that must've broken long before transport. The pot also is designed so terribly that some tea is always leaking down along the pot instead of ending inside my mug. When it for some reason decides a few hours after setting it that the button for automatic tea wasn't pressed good enough(?) it decides to just do nothing - not even ring the alarm, even if that one is set additionally as well; so, don't trust it as an alarm clock. So it's not a good alarm clock. It also isn't really a good tea maker. It is merely a trash novelty.

It is a good looking machine. Very efficient. Easy to use.

Terrific and stylish item to have. It keeps time and makes our morning cups of tea a great start to the day. This one replaced our 1975 teasmade.

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