Rare variant! (atc Panther) HOKWANG HK-JA05 at Starbucks - Lowestoft Town Centre - 🚹

10.07.24: Both the male and female toilets here are now open again.

30.04.24: Changed styling of atc to reflect their brand image, and fixed a date typo.

15.03.24: The male and female toilets appear to have been permanently closed at this location, as they've both been locked during three visits lately, leaving just the accessible toilet.

Here we have a rather rare variant of the HK-JA.

The HK-JA is a fairly common dryer series in the UK, however what isn't so common is this stock 05 varient. ATC appear to be the only major company who distribute it, and their HK-JAs are fairly rare. The brushed variant of the TSL Air Fury is technically an 05, however it has a custom body design, so it can't really be counted as a stock 05.

As you most likely remember from my other video here, the accessible toilet has an incredibly rare HK-JA-LdB. On another visit to here since that video was filmed, I could hear another HK-JA-LdB from the female toilet, meaning there are in fact two here, with both replacing standard 05s like in this video. Given that two of three have already been replaced, and that this one has a bit of a rough startup (which is abnormal for a HK-JA - likely a sign of looming faliure), this branch could likely be all-LdBs before long. Hopefully the Evil Airstreams never make it to East Anglia.

Here's my video of the HK-JA-LdB in the accessible toilet: I’m back! (atc Panther ECO) Modifed H...

Despite the accessible toilet here usually being spotless, the male toilet always seems to be absolutely filthy. The Contour 21 toilet in here has since been replaced with some cheap and nasty square thing, which might look nicer than a C21 to the average user, but to me it just screams cheap.

Before anyone points it out, yes I know there's a typo in the thumbnail, and no I can't be arsed to fix it.

Model Numbers
OEM - HOKWANG: HK-JA05
Distributor - ATC: ATC-ZA05

Serial Number: N/A
Build Date: October 2015 - earliest HK-JA with a known build date?

Decibels - Peak: 98.5
Recorded 28.07.23

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