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Dear Friends: I just got back from my long awaited family visit in California during which I work on my parent's A806 washer and DG410 dryer. I am ashamed, I guess, to admit that I was looking forward to those projects ALMOST as much as I was to seeing my relatives. Back in St. Louis, I log...

Meet the Stabers Does anybody have any experience or insight into the Staber top loading horizontal axis washers? http://www.staber.com/

My parents' A806, purchased in So. California on July 31, 1978 is still in daily service. I will be giving it a thorough tune-up when I go to visit next week from St. Louis. It has a white tub and the agitator, lint filter and dispenser cup are all turquoise plastic. I know that they are...

Baby Kaboodle picking up a BAAAAD Habit . . .

Kaboodle & Lily on the NEW CHAIR they have completely commandeered!

Kaboodle & Lily

Lily

No need to defeat the coin box! Just buy this model http://www.commercial.maytag.com/cmths/products/productFamily/productFamilyMain.jsp?cs=0&BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&category=Products&domain=WASHER&family=On-Premises+Laundry%2fWashers/Top+Load&familyName=Top+Load

Thanks for the input, guys. Those belts won't know what hit them! Marty

I will be heading to Los Angeles in early June to visit my family. My mother has been using the very same Maytag A806 (series 02) washer that yours truly picked out ALL BY MYSELF as a mere pup of 17 years back in 1977. I do not recall that it has required any significant service in all those...

I wonder if we could jury-rig our own "heat-pump" and more-or-less high efficiency condensing dryer by creating a closed air loop between the exhaust and the intake on a conventional machine that is made to pass through a room dehumidifier. The dryer would be set on a no-heat cycle. . . .We'll...

Clarity at last Dear Emilio: Thank you very much for a most informative description. Martin

I am fascinated and PUZZLED by how vintage, and for that matter new-fangled, condensing clothes dryers work. Do any of you gurus have photos or schematics of the innards of these mystery machines? Thanks, Martin Kaplan

Reset Button? What is this reset button of which he speaks?

Norge Village Memories I have vivid memories of laundry adventures at the Norge Village near my childhood home in suburban Los Angeles. I must have been around 16, circa 1976 (since I made my way there under my own steam) and was intent on helping Mom with some surprise cleaning. It was the...

Thank you for a most fun and INFORMATIVE thread! The only time I've "experienced" a reversing tumble dryer was during a recent trip to France. It was made by Electrolux and when in the reverse mode there was, as I recall, no airflow. The reverse tumble period was quite short, just long enough to...

I am soooo ashamed of myself. I wimped out, opened my wallet W I D E and paid Maytag of St. Louis to repair my 8-year-old Neptune washer. It needed a new rubber boot AND I splurged on a new thermistor/valve assembly. Of course I watched the whole procedure and now I'm sure I could have done it...

3rd Rack Maytag We've had a model MDB9750AWB for about a year now. It has produced beautifully clean loads and the bottom "third" rack has come in handy. HOWEVER, it IS a tight fit. When the main rack is in the lower position, necessary to accomodate full sized dinner plates, it hangs up on the...