I'm also positive that a 1947-1970 Frigidaire, ABC-O-Matic/Kelvinator Orbital and Philco Automagic washers are gentler on clothes long-term than modern front loaders with their large drums that drop clothes on many of their cycles for nearly an hour or more.
My experience with small items going over the tub in a Unimatic, in 30 years of using Unimatics on a weekly basis it only happened once to me and it was a small cleaning rag, it has never happened to me with socks. I wonder if that has to do with severely overloading the machine? I always...
Thanks Jamie! I actually made a set of all turquoise cap and rings for my '57 Control Tower washer (they were originally all light gray as the colored rings didn't come out until 1958), I think a turquoise pulsator to match might be in order!
So one of my big projects for this year was to recreate the big 1955-1964 Frigidaire 3-Ring agitator Pulsator. Last year as some will remember I created the caps, lint chaser and circulator rings on the agitator so this year is the pulsator. I have one new old stock 5432199 Pulsator left in...
Hi Scott, this afternoon I let @Alan know which members to check to see if their upgrade was counted during the transition. You're name was on the list I sent Alan.
The 1958 Frigidaire Unimatic & Filtrator set is also a contender as some have mentioned, I had these in my kitchen for several years until the '57 Control Tower set showed up one day...
Wow the Picture of the Day works perfectly Alan, the Patent of the Day however the file is too small and corrupted or so it appears to me. Is there a way to show the entire file directly on that page without having to download it?
Update never mind what I said about the Patent, it works just...
I had about 900 washing machine patents in .pdf files located in the PAT_OF_THE_DAY directory. Every day at midnight central time a new patent file was picked randomly and shown for the day to download.