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What a shame So many innovative and well-wrought vintage appliance designs got scrapped mostly because customers had limited imagination, willingness to read the product literature (inspiration for the good idea of printing the loading instructions on the door) or simply they were great ideas...

Gone already What a beautiful machine. Was this like the last of the Spin-Tube models? I'm guessing that because it has a detergent dispenser and a rinse dispenser, which weren't available on the early models.

Loved the Silhouettes (sounds like a '60's Motown gr Was it one of these 1967 models?

I had the same question when I got my first appliance brochures.   GE counted all of these points on their normal cycle dial as individual cycles. I remember wasting a couple of hours one day trying to get the "SOAK" cycle on the dial (a total lie; later they defined it as an "ACTIVATED...

The video tells the story As with the GE Straight-8(early version)and the Straight-6 (the later green versions; the black bakelite versions had a little bit more of the bottom, horizontal fins sticking out over the Activator base), the laundry is being swished back and forth...there isn't a lot...

Like machines I've dreamt What a great trip! I've  loved getting a look at all of those Australian appliances. Thanks for the show.

This Hamilton gets my vote This pair belongs to a member. The washer looks like an interesting machine; I like the color of the plastic parts. When I examined the agitator, though, I thought it couldn't be a good cleaner. It looks like one of those "Delicate" agitators that lives under the...

Can you post a picture of what you're looking for? I should know this but Kenmores had so many different agitators...

Looks  like a Vintage St. Charles kitchen. Some of the best made steel cabinets. Pity they died.

A D-720 T! I'm on it!!!!! I've been looking for physical evidence of this pair for years. The last of the T 1960 models before the V-12's were introduced. The 1961 "V" version looks somewhat like the same machine with a few "improvements". Of course the matching washer must be long gone

Aferim! Wonderful skill and ingenuity. How did you achieve these talents?    

Indeed beautiful. Has the same basic backsplash design as the '58 Unimatic.   Those deep-well fryers/slow cooker crock-pots were a much underappreciated feature like the Sensi-Temp units.

Not cheap, but There are a couple of these on eBay as of yesterday. Had I known, I would have copied the auctions. Sorry, but I think they'll be easy to find. One of them was priced at $15.00 with a shipping fee of $115.00.  The other one was more reasonable but I forget the price. Good hunting.

Am I wrong or,,, Looks like that there was the original "Wash Plate"???

Respect! That's a nice fast spin.

I know that a lot of old GE dryers had timers that went up to 140 minutes to accommodate installations where the unit was modified to run on 115v instead of 230v. IIRC opting for the lower voltage meant that most loads took 3 X longer to dry.   They even had a connection under the rating plate...

Along those lines I've always wondered why Whirlpool never featured those wonderful dry detergent dispensers on their TOL models.   The best thing about the Lady Kenmores IMO was that they were one of the only machines of that era where you could have a cycle with both a Pre-Wash and a second...

"You could run the portable disposal in the garden... That's what I plan to do.   Contrary to our idiotic local codes, I plan on diverting  my "gray water" into a cistern for watering the land. There are a lot of people in my area who have made similar changes to their plumbing to conserve...

Thanks Kevin That's very encouraging. Which of the pictured machines is the Little Giant? And do they do boil-washes?

Hmmm I imagine it would be a good tool for us composters.   I was cautioned not to install a disposer in my house because of our already challenged septic systems in our village that is built on lots of ledge. The septic engineer explained that new disposers actually do too good a job of...