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Sorry everyone. Between me and eBay we messed up again.

Sorry, Glenn. It worked when I tested it--the link not the agitator.

I fell down a rabbit hole on eBay and found this. Has anyone seen such an agitator? I wonder if the perforations in the agitator skirt hint at some sort of HE arrangement where they were trying to get water to go through the load easier. The low fins at the base look like it was not meant for...

VOA ad frpm 1943 I found this on eBay. It shows how important the Voice of America was and is...

2 Minute Deep Rinse One problem with the deep rinse in Kenmores was because the fill aerated the load at the back of the tub and large items like sheets took quite a while to be pulled under. The 4 minute deep rinse in the KitchenAid washers, combined with the dual action agitator gave totally...

Fred Maytag was more of a caretaker than any real innovative head of the company. He looked like a doofus. Maytag coasted on its wringer washer reputation for far too long. The "new generation" Maytags were almost a decade late in being introduced and most of that is because of the lid switch...

First off, there is a suspicious lack of evidence of splashing on the machine. I wonder if it was wiped down before the last picture was taken, but the clothing line designed by Phyllis Berens was very high end so it definitely had some draw with ladies from high income homes. I found this...

Thanks, Cory. Reminds me of a joke from the time: What do Maytag and the Soviet Union have in common? Millions of red agitators.

In my experience, this dispenser self-destructs in a disappointingly short period of time. The metal clips that are secured by small screws into the brittle plastic body break loose. I went through two of them and even repairs with strong glue could not put Humpty Dumpty back together again...

Costco is still selling the jug with the gray cap. Maybe the jug with the blue cap like is shown will come in with the next shipment. Thanks for giving us a preview of the new product.

Thanks Matt My coated beater is 48 years old. It has come cracks in the coating. Thank you for letting us know about the stainless steel beater. I have held off on getting a replacement because I saw the new beaters did not have the little scraper projection. Do you find it makes much...

The timer knob looks more like a Hotpoint knob than a D&M knob.

During the spin drain, the rim flo's collected lint could be washed back into the tub by the water going over the rim and letting the lint be redeposited on the laundry. The plastic Filter Flo pans could get blocked/clogged with mineral deposits.

My favorite jeans are two pair that are lined; one pair lined with fleece and one pair lined with flannel. They are like a loving, warm embrace in cold weather.

Bendix/AVCO did patent the "assured rinse" after the wash drain and before the first spin to knock down suds. When Westinghouse wanted to use it in their Laundromat, they had to pay AVCO for the right to use it, although it seems that they could have modified it to be like the spray rinse in the...

I watched a YouTube video of last words of famous persons and Jimmy Stewart's were that he was going to be with Gloria.

I seem to remember from my childhood, ads on Saturday morning cartoon programs for Radio Free Europe and the danger to people behind the iron curtain to have the radios that could receive the RFE broadcasts. There were pictures of people in dimly lighted cellars around a radio. There were also...

Thanks, Tom.

Slogan: "The hotter the water the cleaner the wash." Consumer Reports found the 120 volt heater did not make the water hotter although it did slow the cooling. I think the original 1937 movie was reissued in the early 50s and this machine dates from 1952 when Bendix was introducing the heater...

Penny wise and pound foolish.