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I almost forgot...the agitator was a gold Roto-Swirl, and the lid switch was a mercury switch, not a microswitch.

Looks like a two-speed version of the 1968 Kenmore 800 three-speed machine my parents owned during my childhood. The speed control (extra-slow/auto/slow, IIRC) was where the water temperature control is on your picture, and, again IIRC, the lever you marked "seldom used" controlled the...

“Bendix drive” was also the name for the inertia-driven automotive starter drive developed by Vincent Bendix in 1910. Ford used this type of drive up until at least 1964. Bendix-drive starters made some very distinctive sounds, including ratchet-like noises once the engine started or at least...

FWIW, the late-1960s "match-all" Kenmore my parents once owned had a full-width door.

Chevrolet Can Hear Every Valve Rattle On Long, Extended Trips <br :-)

The company I linked operates a "What the Font" forum, which can help you identify a typeface, as long as it is not a custom font. With respect to the timer dial, someone with an x06 model may want to scan or photograph and upload a good closeup of the timer dial, say the wash cycle portion, and...

Goudy Old Style Italic? I can't hazard a guess as to what typeface Maytag used for the timer dial, but the selector buttons appear to be Goudy Old Style Italic: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/goudy-old-style/bold-italic/

Also, if you looked at some BD WP/KMs the wrong way, they would suds-lock. It seemed like the Super Roto-Swirl-equipped 1968 KM my parents had until around 1982 would suds-lock about 50% of the time. I don't recall any other make of machine being so prone to suds lock. And, yes, this was using...

If this was the last commercial Jet-Action Frigidaire model, what year was it made? Also, was a window lid option available for this model? Thanks!

For the record, I used the term "Fraud-gidaire" on this forum over three years ago (see archives, post 26600). The worst Fraudgidaires, of course, were those trivialized "1-18s" that came out shortly after WCI took over Frigidaire, which looked like the real GM-made thing from a distance but...

¡Se habla español! Well, the classic Easy twin-tub learned Spanish, moved south of the border, became a Mexican citizen, and is now known as the "SD820" with the agitador curvo (curved agitator, aka Spiralator)...

DIY Pods... If you are feeling resourceful, you can make your own pods using some small Mr. Coffee filters, a measuring scoop, a jar, and, of course, your choice of coffee, preferably freshly-ground from the best beans (and I don't mean *$). This link explains how...

I wrote the seller... ...to let him know that, outside of "a rare 1960s model from a long-out-of-business manufacturer" (the Preway), there was no such thing as a gas dishwasher and that any water heating for a sanitary cycle or temperature boost option was supplied by the heating element in...

Let eBay know...they'll shut the auction down! Not that I don't want the nuke to find a deserving home, but using someone else's picture is misrepresenting the item (copyright issues notwithstanding)...

Unless the "magnetic" lid switch uses some type of tamper-resistant technology, couldn't you get an ordinary magnet (say a magnetic parts retrieval tool) and place it over the switch to cheat the interlock?

A coin-op GE Filter-Flo?

Sure makes me glad the closest store of this genre near me is a Target, which is about a mile from my house compared to two miles and change for the nearest Wal-Fart. If it was the other way around, I would put up with the five-mile round trip to placate my conscience. Hooray for Snapper for...

Had to kill time while washing a comforter too big to fit in my FriGEMore, in one of the triple-loaders at a coin laundry (mostly Wascomat WE16s there, except for half a dozen older W125 "Emerald" triple-loaders and a pair of Dexter "Mega Load" monsters). While checking out one of the WE16s...

Hooverwheelaway: I also recall the term "bojack" for aftermarket parts and was about to use it in my earlier post but thought it was just some made-up term by the owner of the appliance parts store where I repaired vacs back in the day. How long has that word been around? In Googling "bojack"...

What about aftermarket parts? I'm thinking back to my vacuum-cleaner repairing days back in the late 1970s (while in high school, no less!) when you could easily get many common wear parts like outer bags, fans, and, yes, those ubiquitous Hoover switches through aftermarket suppliers. Have...