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Is that your downstairs kitchen, Robert? That would have to be the sub-basement below the main basement Tom :-) lol.

Sorry for resurrecting such an old thread, however I believe I just found an image of the absolute very first General Electric dishwasher from the early 1930's after GE acquired the Walker Dishwasher Company. Just wanted to put it here for reference as this is the thread it should go in...

Love the 1960 General Electric Filter-Flo washer at the Maytag test lab!

Thanks everyone for all the kind words, I'm thrilled to be able to fix this properly. I probably should have learned to do this sooner, but I don't think the chemicals were anywhere near what they are now. Do you know what the minimum water pressure is? I wonder if it would work on my gravity...

Most people know all about my Apex, but for those who don't here is a video of the machine:

So I was doing a load of wash early last week in my Apex and when the load was done I noticed there was a stream of water was running out the bottom of the machine. So I took off the machine's lower skirt panel to investigate and sure enough water is leaking out of the safety valve. The Apex...

i suppose another thing you could do is film a vid of the Super Unimatic Unfortunately the Super Unimatic's old computer was taken out by a power surge several years ago. I'm planning on rebuilding it someday but it's not on the list of things I'd like to do washer-wise this year.

Gosh I love all these videos so much Cory, thank you again. I hope you don't mind, I created an animated gif of my favorite part of that video! Look at that prototype combo washing surrounded by Plexiglas, so freaking cool!

I believe that can happens in the very early hours of the morning like around 4am Central time during site backup process which produces a very heavy server load and slows down the server.

I always thought that Betty only advertised for westinghouse! In case anyone is wondering how I convinced Betty to do a pitch for Frigidaire in my video, when she's obviously the Westinghouse lady, I had to make a phone call to a good friend of mine. You can hear what my friend said for...

A friend's family had a 1957 control tower and his mother used a half cup of Tide in it. Hi Tom, the owners manual of both the '47 and '57 (and I assume all other Unimatic washers) says the following: High Sudsing Detergents: start with 1/2 cup. Shortly after washing action starts, check the...

Question: how does the rinsing compare between Frigidaire 2-rinse machines and the 1-rinse-plus-overflow Unimatics? Hi Mark, personally I prefer the over-flow rinse machines. While both designs are extremely effective at rinsing, some of the best rinsing I've ever experienced, the over-flow...

I've had numerous members over the years ask me to do a full cycle video of my 1947 Frigidaire Unimatic washer, the very first washer that GM Frigidaire ever produced. Well I finally got around to doing this! The first 10 minutes of the video Betty helps me do a complete overview of the...

Very interesting seeing the Today show in 1954 and those humongous microphones they had to wear lol. You can tell it was a bright red AMP agitator they were showing and the shine was amazing to see it brand new like that.

How totally fun Paul and I'm so glad you got to meet Nathan and Leon. Great pictures of you guys and their amazing collections. I too would like to come to Australia within the next few years. Enjoy the rest of your snowbird-ing time!

My understanding is that the first automatic washer of any type was a Bendix frontloader in 1937 You're right Glenn, but being designed/patented vs. actually manufactured and sold Bendix wins that race. I was only referring to the earliest design of agitator top loaders as well, not front...

Maytag did invent the back and forth agitator but that was in wringer washers in the early 1920's, however Apex was the first to invent the top-loading automatic washer which included a back and forth agitator. Apex never actually manufactured/sold this design so by the time the Blackstone came...

Thank you Cory that was so much fun to see. When she opens the lid of Control Tower washer you can just see the shine off the top of the washer tub's rim, brand spankin' new!

In the early 1930's The Apex Electrical Manufacturing Company of Cleveland (makers of the famous and totally cool Bouncing Basket Wash-a-Matic later on) invented the top loading agitator automatic washer as we all know and love. They received a patent for this machine in 1934. The very first...

Looks like after years of waiting the US is about to get a real 240 volt vented combo washer/dryer...