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hello fellow collectors. the carriage on my royal empress got stuck in one posiiton the other day. I couldnt break it loose. So I did manage to get it free and realized that the drive belt had broken and I pulled it all out in pieces. I have another old royal standard as a doner. can anyone tell...

hey guys the ribbon reverse on the royal empress is broken. when it is switched to the left spool, the gears unsderneath dont stay engaged. even if I hold the reverse lever and tap the space bar the gear that is supposed to connect with the gear on the long rod just clicks over and will not...

thanks so much fellows thanks guys , it is so great to have your support. thanks Bill

hello fellow washer friends, I want to say I am sorry for my past requests for machines I am searching for. let me explain, you folks are great about showing me machines that are available, but sometimes they are in states far away and I cant get them. even though I would like to purchase them...

thanks so much guys that was so great of you folks to tell me the info about my machine, I put a new ribbon in it yesterday. the only thing that I have a problem with is the ribbon reverse not always working. any thoughts?

hello fellow collectors, I have a vintage royal typewriter and cannot find out the year it was made, can you tell me based on the serial number? its mcp 11-8293857 thanks Bill

thanks for the reply fellow drycleaner stan there are pics of both of my thor machines on here. if you look under thor cylinder washer you should be able to see them. what funny is that in the dc biz we call them a bellie washer. thanks Bill

hello friends, I have a 1925 thor model 32 that I use once and a while for a very gentle wash on my customers garments.the wash tub is made of brass and recently started leaking in a crimped area near the drain. should I use gorilla epoxy or jb weld to fix it? thanks Bill

hello all, does anyone else find it interesting that kenmore always had three different wringer options on thier wringer washers? if you look at the pics of my white visi matic, you will see that the wringer wasnt just functional but also had a unique oval outer shell. I was asking a while back...

hello fine collectors, I have two vintage visimatics. one is a 64 full skirted pink kenmore and the other is a 50 model. my next step I think is going to be a pants model which seems like the visi right after my 1950 model. I would appreciate any suggestions and comments from you kenmoore guys...

the wringer on the 1950 visimatic to see the oval wringer view my thread of the visimatic. in all other years the wringers are more bare bones. this one year seems like a unique design. thanks for any info-Bill

hey friends, as you all know I recently aquired a 1950 visimatic. mine has an oval wringer that I have always found to be a very neat part of the machine.in most of the previous years the wringers all seem to be more all business. is 1950 the only visimatic that had the oval wringer? does anyone...

thanks so much my thanks for all the cool info, I also have a full skirted visimatic in pank. thanks Bill

the year of the visimatic 1950 seems like a good bet ,but wasnt the pants model out by then? perhaps the pants one was from 51? thanks for the reply-Bill

hey friends I am looking for a kenmore visimatic pants model. please get in touch if anyone has one.someplace in ny if posible. thanks Bill

hello folks its me the drycleaner. I was able to get the model and serial of my vintage visimatic here it is,please let me know-serial-33690 model-503251 I had thought that it was a 51 because of the last two digits of the model but by 51 the pants model was already out as the visimatic. please...

is my visimatic post 1950s? hello friends,I just was looking at an ad from the sears catalog-1951 and they show the pants model visimatic for 51. does anyone think it might be from maybe 47-48? the last two digits of the serial are 51. can anyone tell me? thanks Bill

thanks for the info thanks so much for the page info. I wonder if mine is from a bit earlier than 51? although the last two numbers in the serial are 51. its the model before the pants model. thanks Bill

hello friends, usually I get the ad for the machine before I actually have the machine but in this case I have the machine and no ads. does anyone have an ad for the 51 tol visimatic? I would like to see one. thanks Bill

hello , I am looking for a gooeneck for my 1951 visimatic, I knnow they are as rare as hens teeth. the machine has a special holder for the goose neck and so other ones will not work. thanks Bill