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The American Milky Way is the same as a Mars bar here. Our Milky Way doesn’t have the caramel layer. Our Milky Way is much lighter. In the commercial was said children could it a Milky Way before dinner and it wouldn’t ruin their appetite.

John, Robert mentioned a 50Hz/220 Volt motor in his first response, so who knows. Nowhere in the ads a spin speed is mentioned so we can only guess about that. To end the story about the American Frigidaires in the Netherlands, 1960 is the last year the American set is shown in an ad of the...

Sean, directly after above message from me you post a long off topic reply. That’s funny at it’s best. That you don’t see why that made people laugh shows you have no sense of humour.

In 1960 a new machine is introduced, a semi automatic. The name Aline is probably french, so it may be made there too. At the bottom of the ad an automatic washer and dryer is shown. Obviously a Frigidaire set with a Filtrator dryer.

The Frigidaires sold overhere were probably imported from the USA like other American whitegoods. Frigidaire was especially well known here for their fridges. The Dutch word “koelkast” wasn’t used much. A lot of people used the name Frigidaire (pronounced in French!) for the product, even when...

That translation is correct. Amazing!

Here’s a small ad in the newspaper from April 23 1957. A private person is selling a Frigidaire washer and a Hamilton dryer. This is the first time I see a Hamilton appliance mentioned in a newspaper.

I found another ad with an older model Unimatic. I hope you don’t mind I post this here… This ad is from March 17th 1956.

Amazing Chet how you always know how to go off topic.

I have no idea how many Unimatics were sold here. This is the first time I have seen an ad with this machine. Actually the same ad turned up a few times more, also in 1959. Westinghouse frontloaders are the most advertised American washers. But GE and Bendix were sold here too in the fifties...

Robert’s thread about the introduction of automatic washers in the newspapers made me have a look again at the Dutch archives. I have posted a few threads with Dutch ads in the past. The first ads are from 1953. I looked a bit furder and much to my amazement I found a 1958 advertisement with a...

Their wives might want to do laundry too.

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Stephan says thank you Chris! He already had a suspicion there would be a seal behind the plate. He will continue working on the Keymatic. If everything comes together he will post a video. He’s also working on a second one, that machine’s bearings are totally gone. BTW, here’s Stephan’s...

My German friend Stephan is repairing the Keymatic I once owned. He has a question about it. Because his English is not to good he asked me to start this thread. His question is if the seal in the picture is the only one. Or is there a second seal behind the part where the impeller goes on...

Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit! That’s a Scharpf spin dryer 🥰 a German quality product! There’s a bit more about Scharpf in this thread https://automaticwasher.org/threads/british-twintub-washing-machines-1959-1990.82352/page-6#post-1066267

Here’s the cycle chart. I never understood Samsung’s choices in regard to cycles. Why on earth can’t bedding be washed in hot or extra hot? Etc.

Holy cow, 26 gallons is almost 100 liters which is quite a lot considering the load is probably less than 6 kilograms.

This is all about innovation. Engineers discovering what is possible within technical limits. It’s just like car prototypes. Some of the ideas never make it and other ideas become a standard. You get reality by going through this phase. Something you as a technician should know.

Ah, no worries then. How does this machine work?