Can you Adam and Eve it? As we only have cold fill machines over here, I filled the drum with a couple of jugs of hot water and the diluted dye, added the salt and put in the cardi and switched on, and bugger me this stupid machine always empties when starting,and this I forgot, so it has all gone, in desperation I have boiled 3 tea bags and kept adding that water, gawd know what colour it'll be now! What a wally!