Search results

Gray water reuse When I had my business, I tested each washer with a load of clothes. Sometimes I ran out of dirty clothes! I used Amway SA8+ with phosphates. I drained the water into my garden. The plants loved it! They grew like crazy, but there was too high an amount of phospates for the...

Kudos Thanks for contacting automaticwasher. I'm sure that people could use the parts.

Timer This is from a Whirlpool. I sold several used ones in the '80s. They were a straight forward washer. No special design (the timer was on the right hand side, with a simple, shorter backsplash across the rest of the machine)or bells and whistles. I think that it was from the late '60s if I...

Tub leak If the tub has rust holes, JB weld or other epoxy works good. A small piece of plastic can be used to bridge a hole when using epoxy. I like it better than using silicone for holes. Silicone works good for gasket surfaces, particularly on corroded metal. Maybe our friend with the...

Solid Seller If I could get one of these when I was in business in the '80s, it would sell quickly. It was a good reliable machine, and people liked the features. Some of them did rust, however.

Switch It sounds like the hot terminal is worn, bent, corroded. It may have more pressure on it when in the hot position. Some of those old switches could be disassembled by bending a tab or 2. Contacts are coated with coin silver, and if you file them, they may work for a while, but will burn...

Laundromat Washer I had a machine like this one, except that it did not have a coin timer. It came with a knob where the coin accepter is on this one. It was white, and it did not have the square access hole in the front panel. It had a date on the timer of 1948. It had a transmission with a...

Solar Clothes Dryer This reminded me of my friend's mother. She lived in Palm Springs California. The wind is always blowing, one direction or another. She would wash all of her clothes first, then put them in a cart and wheeled them out the back door. Her house was built in the mid 1950s, but...

Picture Please If you could post a picture of the old heating element, it may help. Often you can use a generic heating coil of the correct wattage, or there may be something that is close enough, but for a different machine.

More memories Tom, now that you mention it, I remember the hose and the water level line on the door. Much later, I lived in this house and had a coin-op Bendix "Double Load" washer. It may have had a "suds line" on it also. Great washer! I also had a 30 pound gas dryer that was coin-op also. I...

Vent hole If I remember right, there was a rubber hose connected to the extra hole for venting and over-sudsing. I remember how people would dump about 2 cups of detergent in these machines. Their clothes were still full of detergent after the full cycle. I once washed some bedding that I did...

Memories I remember a similar washer in my Grandfather's garage. It was not automatic, but had a switch that had wash, drain, and spin positions. I remember that it was a Bendix, and it was bolted to the slab. If I remember right, the lint trap door was round, and the lint trap was a long half...

90s Maytag We had a Maytag dishwasher in the early 90s that worked great. It had a LOT of jet holes on its spray arms. It developed a bearing whine, but still worked great- really cleaned the dishes. I got one recently that was about 2 years old, and was the same as the Tappin in our house...

slow Maytags I used to get Maytags that were slow to agitate, then I also noticed that they were slow to spin. After running them for a while, they started up faster on each cycle. I found that the springs on the motor mount were fatigued, and the nylon rollers in the mount were worn. The...

110 conversion If you look at where the cord connects, you may have 3 or 4 wires. If there are 3, remove the ground jumper to the white wires, and move the red wire to the white ones, or connect a jumper from white to red. Connect a heavy 110 cord: Black to black wires, white to white and red...

Conversion Kit? Go to a hardware store and get a faucet quick disconnect adapter (male), a hose quick disconnect (female), and a hose bib cap. Cap off the hot water hose inlet, and install the quick disconnects. You can get piano dollys at Harbor Freight starting at $9.00 on sale. Voila...

D&M dishwashers I started in the appliance business by rebuilding D&M (Design and Manufacture) dishwashers and selling them, or rebuilding them for apartment managers in the late 70s. I would go to thrift stores and buy them for 25 cents to $5. I'd put in a new pump seal kit, test it and sell...

Great Job I like what you have done. The recessed lighing adds a lot.

Sticky timer? I wonder if the timer motor or the timer itself is sticky and needs to be cleaned and relubed? It could be that the motor gets hot and the windings open, then close when it cools off. Just Guessing, but I've seen similar. The dryer has a bad door switch. There are 3 blades inside...

Ho Ho Ho December was the worst month for my appliance business. One December the only sale I made was on Christmas eve. A young man bought an electric dryer for his girlfriend as a Christmas present. Who says romance is dead?