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It’s just Whirlpool was skimpy and stingy after the direct drives were introduced in the 1980’s since the options became more limited. Would be interesting to compare my Mark 18 to a TOL Whirlpool direct drive from 1987 (not a exact 1 to 1 comparison since the Mark 18 consoles are on a Whirlpool...

Personally, Whirlpool should go back to the belt drives, any other Whirlpool outside of the belt drives is junk.

Also cold water washes don’t help much, either. Sometimes if it’s something lightly soiled or something just needs to be ‘freshened’ up from sitting for awhile or the ambient temperature of the water is on the warmer side, I’ll just do a cold water wash, but 95% of the time it’s a warm or hot...

I still don’t understand why people think using only a table spoon of detergent is a good idea, ends up causing more problems later on. I always use a cup or more of detergent in mine, sometimes I’ll use 2 cups of detergent just to be sure. Detergent is cheap, rebuilds and repairs are expensive.

Direct drives can have issues with the transmission, there’s more pieces inside which can fail. Belt drives on the other hand, have few parts inside and since everything is made of cast iron, will last for a long, long time. Only things that can fail inside a belt drive transmission is the...

I really do wonder if you’ll get that many suds from things that were washed in a front loader (HE in general), then re-washing them in a Frigidaire Unimatic 🤔

Some people can hem and haw all the want on how electronic controls offer more flexibility and such, the reality is some features are either locked out or are completely limited on certain cycles which completely negates that. When you give the user the ability to have full control from...

You’ll get the same results from washing items that went through a cycle in a front loader, then re-washing them in a top loading machine. Now people will know why I have a disdain and hatred for front loading washers, they will never be able to clean as well as a top loading washer.

Even when you make a decent living, today’s vehicles are still out of reach for the average person. Reason why they are expensive as hell is because of the crap people demand, along with all the crap the government mandates as well. A good way to sum it up is ‘BratFlation’ along with...

Sounds like you are one of those shills who always things newer is better, then start complaining when you have to work on the damned things because of quality control problems and crappy designs. Again, it’s kind of ridiculous to make such statements when Robert and others have personally...

To quote Harry Wormwood from Matilda: “Of course it’s cheating, nobody ever got rich being honest”.

Built better my butt, newer Whirlpools are having major issues from the get go. As for more reliable, that’s a completely false statement, there’s no way on earth these newer Whirlpools will be running in 20 years time, let alone 5 to 10 years time. Here we go again by going with opinions and...

When Whirlpool was Whirlpool, before they started cutting corners in the 1980’s and 1990’s.

Since I’ve been on here for over 8 years, I honestly think it’s time for the DL forum index to go bye bye. Even though it’s a private forum index, it has a tendency of ‘overflowing’ onto the rest of the site.

Speaking of timers John, do you happen to have any for a Mark 18 from the late 70’s? Just wondering since I’m thinking about trying to acquire another timer in the future just in case the one that’s on there now ends giving up the ghost in the future. Been there done that with timer issues for 2...

$200 is too much for something with not a lot of options. If it was a higher end machine with a matching dryer, I can see that. But just the washer with not many options? A bit too steep.

There’s been some debate as to when Whirlpool started to decline, but I’d argue the decline began once they went to the direct drives. The direct drives have (and still have) issues with the transmission and slipping into spin when it’s cold or the neutral drain pack fails, the belt drives could...

Awhile back, Robert asked about the pieces I fabricated for my Whirlpool in a thread on the Shoppers Square forum index. These are the pieces I fabricated out out plumbing parts for the water level/pressure switch along with the lint filter/automatic dispensers. Surprisingly, the inner tub/wash...

I imagine the bearings are tight, if you skip to the 2:12 mark, you’ll see a pinhole through the center post. I tried to politely explain that you might as well go through everything while it’s out of service, but got a response with “There’s the expensive way that will work, there’s the cheap...

Currently using my ‘63 Whirlpool belt drive which has been outfitted with the late Mark 18 console from 1977. The matching dryer has the dual wattage element as well which is selected by the ‘speed selector’. The console that came off the dryer that was parted out had a dual tumbling speed...