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will wonders never cease?! Hi Robert! Congratulations on your new Unimatic! What a beauty! Is it going to need any work/restoration? Look forward to a video of it spinning with the harmonizer. Greg! Aren't you clever installing the lid on yours as a side-swing!! Hope both of you guys are well!

Hi Don! Amazingly beautiful set! I'd keep them! Our neighbors had this set when I was a boy and I saw them running constantly as I was best friends with their son and we often played in the basement where the washer and dryer were. Always a sink full of Tide suds waiting for the next load...

amazing! Thank you so much for posting the pics and videos and all the information. Beautiful machine and fantastic restoration!

Dead Man safety switch lay the end of that cord on the floor and step on it and the wringer will probably operate. Nice looking machine

good luck with your new set We got an LG set (3570) eight and half years ago and they have performed perfectly without any service issues. Hope you experience the same. The door magnet on LG front loaders is genius - door looks closed but it is actually vented to prevent mold issues.

oh for heaven's sake, speed queen, just put in a water heater!! Duh!!

Happy birthday! That's a good long life for a modern washing machine -- any washing machine! I gave a 2006 Frigidaire front loader to my son and daughter-in-law about six years ago, who in turn gave it to my son's mother-in-law after a few years of heavy use and it finally gave up recently with...

Terry Same here. Seeing this old post from George and Terry (and Glen and Bob) brought back warm memories.

The Frig-GE-more models from Electrolux in the early 2000's had a base model with just one control knob. It had an electro-mechanical timer. You could set it, skip, repeat cycle sequences with the turn of the dial, but timing was computer controlled. (so many revolutions of the drum per soil...

Bendix washer water heating Ahead of its time. Eighty years later almost all brands of front load washers have capability to heat water.

with the exception of Speed Queen, I think all major manufacturers of front load washers in US have models with internal water heaters

pet hair not a problem with Schnauzers

That's a great score and looks to be in wonderful shape but for the boot. My family had the LTF590 like Tom's family did. Looked exactly like this machine but as Tom mentioned had four water temperature combinations instead of three. Does this one have a tub light? The LTF590 did; and it had two...

I don't find much time difference My LG front loader takes about 40 minutes to do a load of laundry set to average soil with three spray rinses and two deep rinses. Dryer time is reduced with washer's 1200 rpm spin. If heating the water it does take over an hour, but that is the exception.

Not sure if this has been shared previously, but I stumbled upon this You Tube channel and Westy Laundromat restoration videos. This guy does amazing work and his videos and very well done and interesting. (Just like our Webmaster Robert's are!)

beautiful work, Robert! Interesting, ingenious design. Thanks for sharing your amazing, painstaking, detailed restoration work. This design really successfully mimics front-loading wash action in a top-load format (the low water use and gentle scrubbing action.) And it doesn't knot the...

Yes, a pretty set and must have been lightly used to still be around and look so good. This washer had the Franklin innards rather than the Westinghouse platform, which provided larger capacity but still mediocre performance.

Back to the original question Yes, this lint filter was some sort of tray that had to be manually cleaned. It didn't last long in the Hotpoint line up before they switched to an agitator-mounted filter.

$ Q: why didn't GE design and build their own 24" portable washers? A: Much cheaper to outsource a small volume product line

mish a mash LG french door stainless steel refrigerator GE Cafe stainless steel double oven gas range Whirlpool stainless steel over the range microwave/exhaust fan LG stainless steel dishwasher When we moved into this house 20 years ago, it was new and the kitchen was brand centric --...