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Hi Kenny, We need a model # to even venture a guess Thanks John L

Reply number five Hi Mark, yes the cheaper brands have something in it that keeps from clogging. It’s called water, try watering down the Kirkland soap. The Kirkland soap is probably superior, but it’s more concentrated. I would never buy a brand name of anything like this products like Dawn...

Samsung built Maytag dryer Yes, this is a Samsung, one of the many things that helped put Maytag out of business. I’d mostly be concerned about all the tar that’s on the motor as the motor gets reasonably hot, but it’s probably not much of a fire hazard. They must’ve tested this design in a...

1959 whirlpool top load portable dishwasher This dishwasher without wash any top load portable dishwasher ever made in the US, its secret to great washing was not only extremely powerful pump, but the fact that it had two separate detergent washes was the main advantage. Both KitchenAid, of...

Rusty agitator shaft Maytag, a 806 Hi Mark, you can keep using the washer until it fails depending on how much you use it it might work a while but you need another transmission. That’s for sure if you want to rebuild it at some point This would be a great time to upgrade it to the orbital...

70s washer, motors, etc. The Westinghouse top load washer and reply number 31 is 1973 after WCI took over Westinghouse in 74 five there were no more Westinghouse motors. That was the best thing that happened to Westinghouse washers and dryers is the awful Westinghouse motors were gone. The...

Whirlpool power, clean dishwashers We’re introduced around 1985 the same time that they started supplying dishwashers to Sears, whirlpool made some important improvements in the pump longevity from the model posted here when they came out with the power, clean dishwasher, even the models with...

I sure hope your job is restored along with VOA People are starting to see all the damage and destruction voting for YKW has done in this country into the world It’s very scary over half of the US population is not very smart when it comes to politics John L

KitchenAid TV ads 1961 Thanks, Corey for posting this really cool to see an ad this old for KitchenAid. The thing that made KitchenAid superior to any other dishwasher in construction quality was the fact that it was based on a commercial machine. This is what’s made Speed Queen such a...

Cumberland, Wisconsin My first partner Michael was from Cumberland. It’s a town of only about 1800 people with one traffic light the last time I was there in the middle of town. It’s only about 100 miles east of the Twin Cities area if somebody wants to grab this John L

GE washer, suspension, etc. Hi Dave regarding post number 117 I never saw GE washer with a side opening lid except some later hot point models. GE went to the unusual cable system suspension in 1961 when the perforated basket filter flow machines were introduced. The suspension they had...

The last hurrah of the spin tube dishwashers This was the final model year for these interesting dishwashers, it was very clever to put the loading instructions inside the door because people just could not figure out how to load those machines in many cases we had customers with them that...

GM Frigidaire agittub washer These were interesting machines, they were engineered and built to be as cheap to build as possible, they were extremely trouble prone I remember Frigidaire dealer I knew here in Maryland. They sold 48 skinny minis the first year and ran 52 service calls under...

Thanks, Cory another fun vintage film I haven’t seen it, but supposedly Hamilton had an electronically controlled dryer by 1960 so I’m not sure who had one first. Whirlpool didn’t release one until 1965 under the lady Kenmore name which was tremendously successful. I remember when working for...

New basic GE builder model dishwashers Thanks for posting this promotional video, these are very popular machines among property management firms and consumers who want inexpensive dishwasher. They do work fairly well as mentioned by others. The racks are not the most accommodating design but...

Thermidor was a top-of-the-line cooking appliance maker They had some very good quality wall ovens and cook tops throughout the 60s and 70s, they only made electric cooking appliances, but due to the increasing popularity of gas again around 1984 they came out with gas cooktops and some dual...

Why whirlpool changed dryer designs in 1966 Of course cost was one of the reasons there’s nothing more important than making a great product more inexpensively any cost savings meant that millions more Americans could eventually have a clothes dryer. The other reasons are obvious much larger...

GE T model top load washers Hi Jerome, you need to do some reading and try to retain some information. Everybody knows that GE farmed out just about every part of that machine. Why would they make their own transmissions? Use some common sense, GE farmed out every part of that washer they...

Salt for dishwasher water softeners It’s certainly not gonna make any difference what kind of salt you use as long as it’s for water softeners. I have a manual for GE dishwashers built back in the 70s. They still had a plasticsol interior that had a water softener system built in it I think...

GE washer transmissions Reply number 17 oh for goodness sakes GE didn’t even make the transmissions in the model T washers. They were farmed out to the Murray lawnmower company or some nonsense like that. What kind of oil they use in the transmission is like the most unimportant aspect of a...